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Re: This is NOT merely a case of "skin"

Written by Aussie girl at 02 May 2003 18:44:28:

As an answer to: This is NOT merely a case of "skin" written by Rood at 02 May 2003 02:54:28:

>"What's the rush? Prepuce separation from the glans is a normal and natural occurrence which occasionally doesn't occur until the teens."

I personally find it's much better to have it retractable when they are young, because I've heard of so many 3 year olds being taken to the doctor and circumcised for so called phimosis. In here we all know it's okay to have a non-retractable foreskin at that age, but a lot of parents don't, and as soon as a doctor sees it, he gets dollar signs in his eyes and recommends cutting it off because of an imaginary medical condition.

Some parents never tell their son it should retract because they expect the boy will just figure it out for himself, and some never do figure it out, so they end up getting it chopped off. Just think of the number of foreskins that could be saved if we educate the parents to very gently retract to get the poop or fluff off the end of the foreskin at each nappy change. This very gradually releases the foreskin from the glans over a couple of years and he never has any problems with it.

>"At the very least, a caution must be added regarding the rather too insistent emphasis by everyone on retraction. Boys of 3-5 easily become fixated with glans exposure when adults obsess on the subject, often with disastrous results down the line, if one considers multiple circumcisions as catastrophic."

To me that would be like saying that everyone who goes on a diet will become anorexic. I haven't personally known anyone who is obsessed with the exposed glans, and wouldn't stick around very long if I met one, but from my observations of those who are, they have obsessive personalities to start with. Normal people with no psychological problems, aren't going to become obsessed by an exposed glans. It's a mental disorder.


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