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[Normaldude79]

A coworker said that medicare didnt pay for her sons cutting so she paid the "high" cost of it out of her pocket lol this made me think... she couldnt afford to pay any of the medical bills to have the kid or hell a health insurance policy premiums but could pay for a Highly unneccessary surgery ???? HUH WTF?

[AntonioRaphael]

Originally Posted by Normaldude79

A coworker said that medicare didnt pay for her sons cutting so she paid the "high" cost of it out of her pocket lol this made me think... she couldnt afford to pay any of the medical bills to have the kid or hell a health insurance policy premiums but could pay for a Highly unneccessary surgery ???? HUH WTF?

Makes you wonder, doesn't it.

[ron1]

This Phillipines info is intersting. I have been to the
Phillipines and I know that the macho attitude is very strong. So anyone sold on the idea that they are supermacho will have a hard time with the info that his manhood has been diminished.

[Yunus]

Originally Posted by admin

The Phillipines is big place with many traditions, but yes, about 90% are circumcised and only about 20% are done in infancy. The rest range from around age 7 up to 20. They even have a derogatory word for the uncut - suppot {correction: supot} - which means effeminate, cowardly, silly, ineffectual, uncut.

Near the big cities circumcision is medicalized and done in the traditional Western way. Out in the sticks, it's a traditional/tribal rite that can involve a camping trip in the stewardship of a "witch doctor" of sorts. I was told of an excursion where the boys were told to wash and then gather leaves of a certain tree, and to chew up an ample mouthful of leaves into a paste. Then the cut is made.

The tradtional Philippine cut DOES NOT AMPUTATE anything. The boy stands near a chopping block like a tree stump. The skin is drawn away from the body and a cleaverchop is made in the top side skin only, along the longitudinal direction. This creates a longways slit right at the roll-over point about 1/2" to 3/4" long (except in botched jobs). This destroys the preputial sphincter and it's just slackening enough to let the skin flop away from the glans.

After the cut the boys spit their wad of chewed leaves onto the wound and just hold it there, sometimes wading into a river. The result is an explosed glans and a cuff of foreskin bunched up on the underside, with a wound that heals haphazardly any number of ways.

The Philippines has only 1/20th as many doctors per capita as the US or UK. Many parents whose families migrated to the cities in just the last couple generations now take their babies to a hospital for "circumcision" and are shocked to get home and see that skin has been amputated.

It's noteworthy that The Philippines is about 80% Roman Catholic and the church officially says that circumcision "can not possibly be observed without loss of eternal salvation." There is a separate non-Rome-affiliated Filipino Catholic Church. I don't know what their policy on circumcision is.

Cheers,
-Ron

So,it seems like dorsal slit in Philippines.

[w.o.f.]

EXCELLENT posting, Joseph. Kudos and thank you.

[Matt p]

Originally Posted by Normaldude79

A coworker said that medicare didnt pay for her sons cutting so she paid the "high" cost of it out of her pocket lol this made me think... she couldnt afford to pay any of the medical bills to have the kid or hell a health insurance policy premiums but could pay for a Highly unneccessary surgery ???? HUH WTF?

It probably fell under the category of "cosmetic surgery" which should have been a sign right then and there to stop.