Re: Phimosis Education
Written by Robin at 06 Jul 2006 19:09:26:
As an answer to: Phimosis Education written by Tim at 13 Jun 2006 12:06:29:
Hi Tim,
Thank you. I loved getting this letter. It was this sort of flabberghasted anger which originally motivated me to start this project.
- exactly my feelings and thoughts and research, the books say nothing, the doctors say nothing, its taboo ... I remember my feelings when I first discovered - I was 43 - My whole world turned upside down, suddenly I understood all the sexual problems which I had been having. (My experience is on https://www.male-initiation.net/library/passages/diary.html)
Interesting that you say "sex didnt pose ... an economic threat to the community" - You have read my welcome page - you realise farm animals are monitored for phimosis because of potential financial loss to breeders!!! crazy world ...
What makes me angry is that my only company online are hundreds of pro circ and anti circ sites, and they are supported by doctors and university professors, and these sites have stickers up showing the support of child care groups and even the British Medical Journal. Will there ever be an end to the bias?
As far as I am aware I am the only person in the world who is campaigning for early education and monitoring pre puberty. No doctor supports me, and not even any normal men
I am trying to set up an organisation, so that a group of men with our feelings can gather. Its not me - its ARC who needs support! – I just happen to be the only active ARC member!
ARC should control the entire project, the site, communication systems, and progress towards goal of monitoring/educating boys before puberty.
With your anger-energy, people like you should be in control of ARC ... at least temporarily. Will your anger last? Or will you burn out soon? Whatever, for a period of time – let me ask you what do we need to do to acheive our goal?
What does your anger-energy want to see done? And how?
Whats your opinion on lots of things:
Routine circ? Full circ? Is full circ ever necessary? The anti pro circ debate? The other phimosis foreskin info online?
Any support is appreciated, I feel I am doing all I can, and have been doing so for 12 years, but no-one supports me, ... so, ... maybe Im wrong?
Please keep in touch and tell me what sort of things you may like doing, and how we could work together.
Cheers
Robin
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>I recently came to realise that I suffer from phimosis - or more to the point, realised that a non-retracting foreskin was not something you had to just accept and live with.
>But what I’m extra-ordinarily angry about, is the fact that this has not been mentioned to me until now - at the age of 29.
>I am enraged! If any health educators are reading this, then be aware that you have completely FAILED innumerable people around the world.
>I am university educated as a health professional, and nowhere in ANY of my years of study did the condition “phimosis” ever get even a fleeting mention. If it doesn’t even get a mention at this level, what hope do 13-year-old kids get... until perhaps they’re near to 30 years of age after years of sexual (and social) insecurities.(Of course the age-related impotence was awarded significant lecture time at university... God forbid 80 year old men lose their erections after a lifetime of sexual satisfaction).
>I am absolutely incensed! What a completely distorted world we live in!
>I referred back to my university notes, and the closest thing that came to the subject was the matter of ensuring uncircumsized males wash their glans to prevent infection... no elaboration (Not sure if my University has lower standards than expected - but it’s supposed to be in the top two to three in the country). I even went to the Merck Manual (a thorough, world-renowned reference book on medical conditions and treatments) - where “phimosis” gets merely a tiny paragraph, stating “surgical circumcision is indicated” and “prognosis is excellent”.
>I don’t think I’ve ever been so angry about anything before!
>There are certainly many issues associated with this condition, but as far as I can see, the greatest is the fact that young boys are not educated about this condition. From what I remember, my teenage sex education in high school focused on not spreading STDs and preventing unwanted pregnancies. I guess boys who’s foreskins prevented them from having sex didn’t pose as much as much of a social (or economical) threat to the community as some of these other things, so it really got demoted down the list of priorities on what to educate kids about (demoted down to no mention at all).
>My hat goes off to this website. It’s done so much more in a matter of minutes than what a lifetime of supposed “education” has done. And I concur (with other posts) that something needs to be done to ensure young kids are made aware of this condition.
>-Tim
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