Circumcision: Circumcision: Medical Medical

Necessity or Necessity or FallacyFallacy

By Harry Wright

What is Circumcision?

Surgery

Removal of Mucosal tissue

Performed in the first days of life

The Circumstraint

Why Circumcision in the US?

• Prevention of STD’s– Syphilis– HIV

• Physical Cleanliness- UTI’s in the first year of life

• Masturbation Taboo• Spiritual Cleanliness

What is the cost benefit?

• Immunological defense system

• Lysozyme antibacterial/ antiviral protein

• RISK: The Frenulum, if severed, destroys functionality

WHAT GETS LOST?

•Circumcision removes useful erogenous tissue.

•Circumcision removes the single most pleasure producing area of the male body

Newborns don’t feel pain?