Recent content by Hugh Intactive

Nobody's doing that. It's the genitals of men with foreskins and without phimosis we're talking about. One important aspect of the pleasures of the foreskin is its rolling action. In phimosis that is obviously comprommised. That table is not a between-country comparison, it is a series of...

Another influence was a late 19thC California lung-doctor called Peter Remondino. He made up the "we used to need it when we ran through the brambles, but no longer" meme out of his head: http://www.circumstitions.com/remondino.html . And see what else he had to say...

This is exactly the kind of topic on which Wikipedia can not be trusted. As it happens, there is an expert Wikipedian who patrol(l)s the circumcision entries ensuring they support his favourite operation. He's made more than 10,000 edits on the topic, and also co-authored papers with...

"Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, president of the Dutch Association of Rabbis, said only about 50 male Jewish babies are circumcised in the Netherlands each year." (Ynet News, September 27, 2011) Today the Dutch Jewish population numbers about 30,000 so if the Jewish birth rate is the same as the...

Frisch M, Lindholm M, Grønbæk M, Male circumcision and sexual function in men and women: a survey-based, cross-sectional study in Denmark. Int J Epidemiol. 2011 Jun 14. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=21672947)

What are you comparing it with? Surely there are, and less. At 1.2 million circumcisions a year in the USA, one every 26 seconds, this is not the least. So? A cleft palate can be life-threatening if the baby can't feed. A foreskin is not a birth defect.

Yes, the personal choice of the person most directly concerned - in fact the ONLY person directly concerned - when that person is old enough to make that personal choice.

As with many "scientific" studies of this issue, you are ignoring the rôle (and the roll) of the foreskin itself. It has >20,000 specialised nerve endings - quite comparable to those of the fingertips - concentrated in a ridged band around the tip that are invariably lost to circumcision. The...

* With a Gomco or Mogen Clamp it's sliced - and a Mogen may take more than just the foreskin, which has led to successful claims worth millions and the Mogen company going out of business. * With a Plastibell or PrePex it's crushed and allowed to die. * With an Accu-circ it's chopped. But...