Circumcision – by Karen Ranzi
This article was posted by Raw news bot on August 2nd, 2010 and has been 1,335 views.This article was syndicated from The Raw Mom Blog.
by Karen Ranzi I read Karen’s new book, Creating Healthy Children, and was intrigued by the chapter dedicated to circumcision. Karen kindly agreed to write a short wisdom nugget for our pregnancy month on this topic. “Just before I gave birth to my son, I read the chapter “Mutilation of Male Babies” in Dr. Herbert Shelton’s book Hygienic Care of Children. I already knew I wouldn’t allow a circumcision to be performed on my child, but I became extremely concerned for other baby boys while reading some of the details about the procedure. In 1880 it was thought that masturbation caused blindness and epilepsy. This began routine U.S male circumcision, and boys no longer resembled their fathers. Due to the pain and complications that circumcision has brought to boys and men over the past 130 years in the U.S., we need to focus on doing the same today: ending male circumcision and having boys once again not resembling their fathers. The foreskin of the penis grows from 12 to 15 square inches of erogenous tissue, the inner and outer layer included. The foreskin is attached to the gland which protects from feces entering the area. It adheres like the nail to the nail bed or the eyelid to the eye. We certainly wouldn’t want these important protective body parts to be severed. The foreskin has to be detached before it can be cut. The foreskin can be as much as one third of the outer skin of the penis. It’s meant to be a moist interna[...]
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