Circumcision

Circumcision is the most common form of genital mutilation. Male genital mutilation (MGM) comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external male genitalia or other injury to the male genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons. Three national medical organizations (Iceland, Sweden and Germany) have called for infant male circumcision to be banned, and two others (Denmark and the Netherlands) have said they’d support a ban if they didn’t think it would drive the practice underground.

Jews, as do Muslims, practice ancient genital mutilation (circumcision), even in the twenty first century.

Metzitzah b'peh is a type of Jewish circumcision in which the rabbi sucks blood from the baby's penis using his mouth. Metzitzah b'peh sometimes spreads herpes to the baby which has resulted in deaths or disability.

History

The earliest recorded accounts are in ancient Egypt, but the practice goes back before recorded history. Anatomist and hyperdiffusionist historian Grafton Elliot Smith has found evidence it to be over 15,000 years old.

In the United States, even with experienced medical care that ancient people did not have, 1 in every 500,000 baby boys die from male circumcision. The amount of US-American males circumcised after the United States joined the side of the jews in WWII – and imported large amounts of them to run the media, government, education and healthcare systems – increased immensly. Newborns are circumcised without anesthetic.

The modern propaganda reasons for it are claims of health reasons and claims it makes people behave more morally. The health claims is a lie promoted by jewish doctors. The foreskin actually boosts immune function and protects the body from pathogens. Circumcision has been proven to cause both erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The older Judaism reason was an offering to their god. But for the ancient Egyptian reason, as the Dogon tribe of Africa gives, they view the foreskin as feminine and the clitoris as masculine, so they remove each. Why they don't remove male nipples is unknown.

While common propaganda encourages male genital mutilation and shames female circumcision, they are both very similar. They remove both tissue and 70,000 nerve endings. The male result is the tip of the penis is less protected and more easily chaffed. The male experiences less sexual pleasure, has no natural lubricant, and is to some extent numb at the tip. Studies have found uncircumcised men are better lovers;

“Respondents overwhelmingly concurred that the mechanics of coitus were different for the two groups...73 percent [of the women] reported that circumcised men tended to thrust harder and deeper, using elongated strokes, while unaltered men thrust more gently, to have shorter thrusts and tended to be in contact with the mons pubis and the clitoris more.”

Circumcised men lose feeling in the tip of the penis after a period of time, due to a process called keratinization. The foreskin was meant to protect the tip from frequent contact. Without the protection of the foreskin, the tip is unprotected and over time, loses sensitivity. With foreskin protection, the penis remains sensitive, which equates to more feeling. Women also are extremely more likely to have orgasms with an uncircumcised man because the foreskin acts as a massager for the vagina, creating more sensations for the woman while decreasing the chance of female dryness.

Despite the added sensation, uncut men last just as long, if not longer than circumcised men. Women are often only averse to foreskin at first because it is unusual compared to what they're used to seeing, but they prefer it afterward. Just like with males, female circumcision removes only the tip of the clitoris because the full clitoris goes entirely through her groin and woman are still able to have orgasms, just with reduced sensation like with circumcised men.

Researchers find circumcised men have higher alexithymia scores than intact men. Alexithymia is the inability to process emotions.

Jewish influence in the USA

Circumcision has always been rejected in continental Europe; Germany and Poland, in particular, prohibited the mutilation of children for non-religious reasons. Circumcised men were considered "semi-manly" or "effeminate" in Europe. However, during the 19th century, some physicians in Great Britain attempted to establish the circumcision of male infants as a cure for later masturbation. This was intended for the lower classes and was generally rejected by the upper classes. Although this practice did not last long in England, the view spread to the United States and was apparently welcomed by the powerful Jewish medical establishment there. The practice of circumcising all newborn boys in the United States developed rapidly:

• 1900: 30 %
• 1925: 55 %
• 1950: 72 %

This stemmed from the assimilation efforts of American Jews, who at the beginning of the 20th century still faced mistrust from the Christian population. They wanted to assimilate and soften their physical characteristics, but it was not the Jews who were supposed to assimilate, but rather the non-Jews, the Goys. As early as 1890, a federal bill was introduced that would guarantee the circumcision of all black men to reduce their sex drive and protect white women from rape. However, the bill was defeated in the House of Representatives.

The argument of "preventing masturbation" also failed to gain traction in the US, so soon scientifically unfounded "medical" and "hygienic" necessities were being promoted. Everything from syphilis to cervical cancer to HIV (from the 1980s onward) was attributed to the intact foreskin of men. While lobbyists were sent to Washington, D.C., to lay the groundwork with government officials, large sums of money flowed to the legacy media, and later to film, television, and the medical profession, to convince the public that "complete, foreskin-bound men" were endangered, indeed, downright abnormal. They succeeded in establishing an apparently widely accepted "social norm."

As early as 1902, the physician and "anti-foreskin campaigner" Peter Charles Remondino attacked all opponents of circumcision. He claimed that circumcision could cure the blind, the disabled, and those suffering from bone diseases. However, proponents of circumcision did not prevail until the 1940s. Since, they argued, Jews in Germany were identified and persecuted by the shape of their penises, this should never happen again in the United States. It has now come to the point where uncircumcised men are harassed on US talk shows because of their foreskin, American school textbooks depict anatomy or art (e.g., Michelangelo's "David") with a circumcised penis, and circumcision is supposedly offering health benefits, even reducing the risk of HIV infection.

Nevertheless, a counter-movement has emerged since the 1990s. Reputable organizations such as NOCIRC and Mothers Against Circumcision have taken up the fight against senseless circumcisions. Gay rights organizations are also increasingly raising awareness and advising against circumcision as a "beauty ideal" or "AIDS preventer." Numerous insurance companies refuse to cover the costs or risks of circumcision unless it is deemed medically necessary. Many Americans have realized that the last Western countries, such as Great Britain, Canada and Australia (since 1967), have opposed circumcision without a medical reason, with Australia even having done so legally since 2009 (Health Authority).

Israel

In Israel as of 2013, those refusing to allow genital mutilation on their sons, are fined $150 each day by a court.

Circumcision bans

In 2012, European Jewish leaders said Germany's circumcision ban was the "worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust." The proposed ban is not of circumcision, but of circumcision of children. The only people that are against informed consenting men being able to decide for themselves whether or not they should be circumcised, are the people that would take that choice away from them. No one complained when female circumcision was made illegal, even though some people regard it as their religious right or duty to cut (mutilate) their daughters. It’s illegal to cut off a girl’s prepuce, or to make any incision on a girl’s genitals, even if no tissue is removed. Even a pinprick is banned.

In 2018, a 'citizen proposal' in Denmark calling for a ban on male circumcision - as practiced in Judaism and Islam - collected more than 50,000 signatures and was debated in the Danish Parliament. Those proposing the ban on male circumcision argue that the practice involves the mutilation of healthy children, that it is not compatible with the Hippocratic Oath and that it should be criminalised in the same way that female genital mutilation already has been. “Routine” circumcision is banned in public hospitals in Australia.

See also

• Foreskin Man
• Metzitzah b'peh
• Emasculation
• Female genital mutilation

Further reading

• Michael Murry: Theological Circumcision – Foreskins and Free Thinking, 2014 (Archive)

External links

• Why America must stop circumcising baby boys and start viewing it as mutilation, metro.co.uk, 2017
• Foreskin reclaimers: the ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision, The Guardian, 2019
• Bill Gates helps fund mass circumcision programme

Female genital mutilation (FGM)

• Female genital mutilation, WHO
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) (archive)