>>15144
Male circumcision has no health benefits. Those benefits are like throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks. Health care providers make big money in producers, circumcision being one of them. Circumcision was brought to the US in the early 1900s and always advertised for its ability to desensitize the penis and reduce masturbation in young boys, not for the so called cleanliness. These quotes are by the people who pioneered circumcision in the US.
>1887
>Circumcision should always be practiced. It may be necessary to make the genitals so sore by blistering fluids that pain results from attempts to rub the parts. Angel Money, Treatment of Disease in Children. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston. 1887, p. 421.
>1888
>A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment. John Harvey Kellogg [the breakfast cereal tycoon], Treatment for Self-Abuse and Its Effects, Plain Facts for Old and Young, Burlington, Iowa: P. Segner & Co. 1888, p. 295.
This one is really disturbing. Kellogg was a massive spearhead in popularizing circumcision. He wants infants to be traumatized and in brutal pain to associate sexual pleasure with being traumatic and wrong.
>1901
>Another advantage of circumcision ... is the lessened liability to masturbation. A long foreskin is irritating per se, as it necessitates more manipulation of the parts in bathing ... This leads the child to handle the parts, and as a rule, pleasurable sensations are elicited from the extremely sensitive mucous membrane, with resultant manipulation and masturbation.
>The exposure of the glans penis following circumcision ... lessens the sensitiveness of the organ ... It therefore lies with the physician, the family adviser in affairs hygienic and medical, to urge its acceptance. Ernest G. Mark, Circumcision, American Practitioner and News, vol. 31 (1901): pp. 121-126.
>1903
>Boys ought to be circumcised -- the permanent and tempting invitation to masturbation in the form of the foreskin being removed in their early infancy, before sexual feelings are experienced, and the vicious counsel of other boys is received... There is some reason, then, and excuse as well, why boys should be boys, endowed as they are with anatomical conditions, as well as traits, calculated to lead them astray. Brandsford Lewis. A Plain Talk on Matters Pertaining to Genito-Urinary Anatomy, Physiology and Diseases (Part 1). American Journal of Dermatology and Genito-Urinary Diseases 1903;7:201-209.
These are barely scraping the surface. Being circumcised does not prevent STDs. Practicing safe sex prevents STDs. Ever hear of condoms? Doesn't involve a newborn baby screaming bloody murder. A foreskin takes a few seconds to clean in the shower just as any other part of the body. We don't remove toenails because they could be prone to a fungus. Proper hygiene is common sense for any body part. It's wrong to torture poor newborn babies for something which is not logical.