Disgusting

[gdom]

My city is Calgary and recently I've been seeing ads on the LRT (of all places) for circumcision. I finally went to the website and was disgusted by what I found.

They have everything from pro-circ news clips to consent forms online. You might be interested:

http://www.circumcisioncalgary.ca

[madbr3991]

i agree that website is completely Disgusting. if it were up to me i would arrest this doctor and charge him with sexual assault of minors. i would through him in prison and destroy the key. i would also order that he have is penis and balls cut off. i think that would send a message to other people like him. the message infant and child circumcision will no longer be tolerated.

[Them Boots]

You notice that this "doctor" is also in the business of "cosmeceuticals," in other words there appears to be a line of skin products that they are hawking as well.

Makes you wonder why he's so gung-ho on cutting, you guys think these removed tissues are going into those products?

Abortion doctors have to contend with picketers, it seems like this guy could stand to have a few outside his office too.

[mattboy115]

I wonder how this bastard is getting away with this.

[Joseph]

Seen this shit before.

NOT "cute" at all, and this guys' business needs to be hit by angry circumcised men.

He is in the business of mutilating children.

[z726]

My city is Calgary and recently I've been seeing ads on the LRT (of all places) for circumcision.http://www.circumcisioncalgary.ca

http://www.calgarytransit.com/main/ct_contact_us.html
Write 'em a letter. They shouldn't be running ads like that.

IMHO, nobody should be promoting cosmetic surgery in such a public place. I don't know anything about Calgary Transit, but they may not be reading as much into the content of their advertising as they should.

[Aussiebloke]

I wonder how this bastard is getting away with this.

Because it is legal. Why wouldn't he be able to get away with using his medical skills in a legal way?

[Joseph]

Because it is legal. Why wouldn't he be able to get away with using his medical skills in a legal way?

Mutilating healthy children isn't medicine.

Not to mention that it's a violation of basic human rights.

That it is legal is irrelevant; it shouldn't be, and that's what we are fighting for.

At one point, slavery was "legal" too.

Circumcising infants... a medical skill... pft...

I suppose raping and robbery are "skills" too...

Besides; if laws mean anything, then circumcising, no, mutilating infant boys should already BE illegal. That authorities are dragging their feet is a whole different story.

[admin]

Why wouldn't he be able to get away with using his medical skills in a legal way?

Because it's unethical to amputate healthy normal valuable body parts from well persons without their own informed consent.

The citizenry should raise hell until it IS illegal.

-Ron

[gdom]

I'm going to write them an email... I'm just not sure how to word it.

[Aspie]

Because it is legal. Why wouldn't he be able to get away with using his medical skills in a legal way?

Actually no it is not legal under current law if someone did the equivalent amount of damage to your hand they would be charged battery or assault, the problem is that people don't enforce such laws because circumcision is socially acceptable and at the risk of sounding like a bigot a lot of it comes from kissing Muslim and Jewish ass not wanting to treat them like everyone else.

[cobra]

I think we should throw red paint on their business doors like the anti-fur people do. There's what we think about your business. It's blood money, after all. If anyone is in the vicinity, I encourage you to purchase a gallon of red paint and do a drive by splashing.

Is that wrong of me?

[Aspie]

I think we should throw red paint on their business doors like the anti-fur people do. There's what we think about your business. It's blood money, after all. If anyone is in the vicinity, I encourage you to purchase a gallon of red paint and do a drive by splashing.

Is that wrong of me?

Feeling that way is fine however doing such is WRONG because doing stuff like that only makes you look loony at best.

[mattboy115]

I think we should throw red paint on their business doors like the anti-fur people do. There's what we think about your business. It's blood money, after all. If anyone is in the vicinity, I encourage you to purchase a gallon of red paint and do a drive by splashing.

Is that wrong of me?

If it's enough to turn some heads I don't think it's wrong at all.

And, gdom, don't bother about how it's worded just say whatever comes to your mind. It won't matter anyway. I'm sure they've gotten a million of them already and they just trash em. "Oh just another angry cut guy, just delete it.":mad:

[admin]

If it's enough to turn some heads I don't think it's wrong at all.

That sounds like abortion clinic bomber talk. Let's keep it legal and think of ways to get the message out that don't hurt people.

You could trash some building and then you find out the tennant is not even on the hook to repair the damage, some innocent landlord is.

-Ron

[DPX1]

innocent landlord

That's been kind of an oxymoron in my experience :p

[Dasher]

This is like, get circumcised, so I can ring my cash register again, and turn your foreskin into cosmetics.

Does a message like this belong on buses and streetcars?

And it sounds to me like the doctor isn't practicing his "medical skills" so much as his entrepreneurial skills.

Public service has been replaced by the making of the fast buck.

[z726]

gdom, I'd recommend mailing a letter rather than sending an email. Maybe it's just me, but seeing something in print seems to have more impact. Emails are easier to ignore.

Just express your concerns over why they're posting these ads, and any problems you have with them doing so. Be sure it's well written, and I'm sure someone will at least take it into consideration. Perhaps they'd even be polite enough to write a response.

[gdom]

gdom, I'd recommend mailing a letter rather than sending an email. Maybe it's just me, but seeing something in print seems to have more impact. Emails are easier to ignore.

Just express your concerns over why they're posting these ads, and any problems you have with them doing so. Be sure it's well written, and I'm sure someone will at least take it into consideration. Perhaps they'd even be polite enough to write a response.

Good call.

[Mister.Barbecue]

This guy's website is nearly identicaly in content (including pictures) to http://circumcisionvancouver.com. I assume he is interested in avoiding copyright infringement so he probably paid to use the content. The two doctors may be professional partners (one may have trained the other. Dr. Pollock in Vancouver appears to be the more experienced one in circumcision).

I've been researching this guy for a while. What's interesting is that his page has changed wording slightly since 2004 to water-down his claims of medical benefits. If you read the consent form, it states that "the parent is consenting to a non-therapeutic procedure". Makes you wonder how vulnerable he is to law suits? Who's responsible for performing cosmetic surgery on a child, the parent or the mutilator?

I couldn't find the price tag for the Calgary guy but the Vancouver guy used to charge $200. Now he charges $445! Damn. He also claims that he performs 2,500+ circs per year. That's over a million dollar salary just from mutilating!

[Yunus]

This guy's website is nearly identicaly in content (including pictures) to http://circumcisionvancouver.com. I assume he is interested in avoiding copyright infringement so he probably paid to use the content. The two doctors may be professional partners (one may have trained the other. Dr. Pollock in Vancouver appears to be the more experienced one in circumcision).

I have been researching the Vancouver guy for some time. What's interesting is that his page has changed wording slightly since 2004 to water-down his claims of medical benefits. If you read the consent form, it states that "the parent is consenting to a non-therapeutic procedure". Makes you wonder how vulnerable he is to law suits? Who's responsible for performing cosmetic surgery on a child, the parent or the mutilator?

I couldn't find the price tag for the Calgary guy but the Vancouver guy used to charge $200. Now he charges $445! Damn. He also claims that he performs 2,500+ circs per year. That's over a million dollar salary just from mutilating!

This maniac also has more disgusting practice called vasectomy.
http://www.pollockclinics.com/index2.html
http://www.pollockclinics.com/video.html
What an immoral maniac!

[BeefSupreme]

This maniac also has more disgusting practice called vasectomy.
http://www.pollockclinics.com/index2.html
http://www.pollockclinics.com/video.html
What an immoral maniac!

Well, be fair, there's a difference between an adult man deciding he never wants kids and a baby's parents deciding which parts of his body are unnecessary.

[gdom]

This guy's website is nearly identicaly in content (including pictures) to http://circumcisionvancouver.com. I assume he is interested in avoiding copyright infringement so he probably paid to use the content. The two doctors may be professional partners (one may have trained the other. Dr. Pollock in Vancouver appears to be the more experienced one in circumcision).

I have been researching the Vancouver guy for some time. What's interesting is that his page has changed wording slightly since 2004 to water-down his claims of medical benefits. If you read the consent form, it states that "the parent is consenting to a non-therapeutic procedure". Makes you wonder how vulnerable he is to law suits? Who's responsible for performing cosmetic surgery on a child, the parent or the mutilator?

I couldn't find the price tag for the Calgary guy but the Vancouver guy used to charge $200. Now he charges $445! Damn. He also claims that he performs 2,500+ circs per year. That's over a million dollar salary just from mutilating!

This guy is proud of mutilating 30 fucking THOUSAND young boys!? I think he should be put to death for obscene sexual abuse of minors.

[gdom]

This maniac also has more disgusting practice called vasectomy.
http://www.pollockclinics.com/index2.html
http://www.pollockclinics.com/video.html
What an immoral maniac!

What's wrong with vasectomy? A CONSENTING grown man DECIDES to have this surgery as a method of birth control. Totally different than removing a (healthy) part of a young boy's penis for profit.

[admin]

What's wrong with vasectomy? I CONSENTING grown man DECIDES to have this surgery as a method of birth control. Totally different than removing a (healthy) part of a young boy's penis for profit.

I think vasectomy is important to understand. In affluent cultures upto 40% of men choose vasectomy by the time they are 60 years old (compared to half of one percent who choose circumcision after reaching adulthood intact). This is a great rebuttal to people who say you need to cut an infant because no adult wants to deal with surgery on his genitals.

-Ron

[Dasher]

This is a great rebuttal to people who say you need to cut an infant because no adult wants to deal with surgery on his genitals.

-Ron

The other rebuttal to people who say you need to cut an infant is to call them bloodthirsty advocates of child abuse.

[6423463]

Disgusting indeed. In any sane world this man's clamps would be taken from him, melted down, and poured into his eye sockets.