2001-07-24 LiveJournal/WreckingBoy - Mutilation Nation

[TLCTugger]

http://wreckingboy.livejournal.com/318545.html

I nice comprehensive horror show from a guy who learned the evils of circumcising and didn't stop until he had a compelling exhibit for the uninitiated.

[finman]

This is brilliant. A must-see.

Seeing the pictures and reading the text of the circumcision is so edifying and may make you shudder as I did. It also shows the total disregard of the penis - look at the callous way this tiny, sensitive organ is being treated. You can never say this is not a mutilation. It is to become the core of a man's masculinity.

Haemorrhage is one complication of circumcision, and a baby can lose a fatal proportion of his blood with terrifying rapidity. He only has a breakfast-cupful - 300ml. A baby is deemed to need a transfusion after losing 10% of that - 30ml, about a serving-spoonful.

9. Further cutting away of erogenous tissue is performed.

Note first the blood on the surgeon's fingers. The amount of "excess" mucosa trimmed is at the doctor's whim. This determines whether the circumcision will be low or high. If (s)he then choses to trim more outer skin, that will determine whether it is loose or tight, though he may have no idea what the consequences of his actions to the adult will be. It is also at this point that he may decide to take more of the frenulum, with unpredictible effects on the man's sexual functioning.