More common than otherwise admitted to by the circumcision industry, there can be a number of problems resulting in a host of issues
for a baby soon after and later on in life from circumcision, including penile adhesions, meatal stenosis (narrowing), meatal ulcer,
infection, fistulas, skin bridges, skin tags, too much skin removed, scarring, clamp injuries and deformity to name but a few. More
severe complications include haemorrhage, oxygen deprivation, brain damage, galloping gangrene, glans and penile amputations, which
in extreme cases has led to gender re-assignment by castration and transgender surgery with the victims expected to live their lives
as females. Ultimately and unfortunately in the most extreme of cases, coma and death of the child occurs. Of the 1.25 million newborn
American males circumcised annually, there are about 230 or so of them who do die as a result of this operation. How many others almost die?
The Philippines and South Korea, both previously occupied by the U.S now circumcise up to 90% of their male population routinely for
so called ‘health’ or ‘medical ‘ reasons, denying their males the rights and pleasures of their foreskin. Both of these nations are
seemingly oblivious to the human rights issue and unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any challenges or movements to halt the epidemic
proportion of circumcisions in those countries.
The permeability of the inner foreskin has recently been supposedly said to allow
HIV into the body, which is a reason the pro circumcision movement is currently advocating that millions of African boys be circumcised
as a preventative measure to deal with the AIDS crisis. The United Nations has thrown its weight behind the circumcision option and
it seems like
Many South Pacific Island nations such as Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Niue, Tahiti some tribes of certain non-Islamic African
nations such as in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and some Indigenous Australian Aboriginal tribes (It is now thought that circumcision
was introduced to them by Indonesian travellers who were circumcising themselves as Islamic people) perform male circumcision as a
cultural requirement or male rite of passage. Depending on the culture, circumcision is either done in pre pubescence,
early adolescence or teenage. If males are not circumcised they cannot partake as full members of these societies and ostracised,
so unfortunately keeping their foreskins is not an option for these men. Surely rites of passage don’t have to target the genitals
nor be SO violently painful.