tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37709909.post3080517197159176029..comments2023-10-31T10:52:44.454-05:00Comments on Making Birth Safe in the US. (aka Hospital Birth Debate): Male Circumcision in the USA: A Human Rights PrimerBaby Keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771156154070579302noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37709909.post-6763938581860904622007-10-16T00:13:00.000-05:002007-10-16T00:13:00.000-05:00Most of the opposition to routine infant circumcis...Most of the opposition to routine infant circumcision in the USA is concentrated among mothers and gay men. While the large mass of straight American men do not promote circ, they are also reluctant to do more than go along what their spouses prefer and leave their sons intact. To do more than that they apparently deem a criticism of their own circumcisions.<BR/>You women and foreigners out there would be amazed at the extent to which American boys and men never talked about circ when I was coming of age a generation ago. If the boys I grew up with knew their genitalia had been surgically altered, they never let on. Ignorance is no longer bliss, thanks to 25 years of intactivism. And I gather that pregnant USA mothers nowadays all know this is a choice they will have to make. The result is that 40-45% of baby boys now leave the hospital intact.<BR/>Even so, millions of Americans of both sexes are still made uneasy by the sight of a foreskin. It's simply not part of the male package they have known all their lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37709909.post-2495600696432680802007-02-08T08:20:00.000-06:002007-02-08T08:20:00.000-06:00I really wonder why more men aren't at the forefro...I really wonder why more men aren't at the forefront of this fight to end this horrible practice. Perhaps they aren't as culturally "able" to work through all of (what I would assume) the anger and questions they would have for their own parents, why did they do this to me, etc....but obviously to have mostly moms against this is kind of strange...especially if the baby's father is circumsised, again I am just guessing here, but I really do want more men and dads to know what a BIG DEAL the foreskin is/could have been for them.Housefairyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158143680987249710noreply@blogger.com