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Written by Rood at 19 Apr 2003 05:38:36: "Phimosis": Not a Pretty Picture
As an answer to: Re: Not 'almost', not "far from almost', but Absolutely Ridiculous written by chImp at 16 Apr 2003 16:04:10:
The question is whether an unretractable foreskin needs to be "cured".
Certainly many unfortunate boys have been circumcised on advice of doctors who were unaware that retraction isn't necessary or even possible until the later teens. Many doctors became so accustomed to seeing the circumcised penis that they assumed that every intact penis displays evidence of the dread "disease" of 'phimosis'. The 1970 edition of a leading urological text said that a long foreskin causes "rectal prolapse," malnutrition, nose bleeding, convulsions, night terrors, muscle twitching and epilepsy. (Urology, 3rd ed. 3 volumes, WB Saunders: 1970. vol. 2, pp 1834-87.) In addition, the author, M.F. Campbell, said that circumcision was advised in order to avert masturbation. So much for his credibility!
Many doctors use the bogus 'condition' of phimosis to justify circumcision...as a means of fraudulently seeking reimbursement for their 'services' from insurance companies. Circumcisers sometimes speak of a foreskin which is "too long" as being evidence of 'phimosis'. Doctors (such as Dr. D.C.) often use this as justification to remove what they more casually refer to as "redundant" foreskin...redundant being a word which betrays their prejudice and erotic interest in circumcision for it's own sake. Rather than treating psychologically confused men for an erotic fascination with genital mutilation, they encourage the particular personality disorder...benefitting themselves in both a monetary and an erotic sense. All of us pay for these deceptions in the form of higher insurance premiums.
Imagine taking pride in genital mutilation and being sexually aroused by slicing into men's genitals and you'll begin to understand how the condition called 'phimosis' is being manipulated. It's not a pretty picture.
>I'm VERY much pleased that there is a thing called Internet to which I have unlimited access to. Of course, if this was the 80's I probably wouldn't have figured out that stretching cures phimosis.
>You've got a point there, Rood.
>>Aren't you pleased that the internet has provided a forum which allows men to explore the experiences, the missteps, and the successes of others, before they, too, act in haste and on faulty and insufficient information? In that respect these forum are better than University libraries. Here, the books come to you, almost 'live'. Just don't knock them down, like a bull in a china shop. They are there for you to 'read'.