tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post1783976044662376074..comments2024-01-17T13:16:10.378-08:00Comments on Joseph4GI: Edgar Schoen Showing His AgeJosephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-69681549216881969742013-01-17T20:30:45.232-08:002013-01-17T20:30:45.232-08:00Good article!
Like you said, the research is amaz...Good article!<br /><br />Like you said, the research is amazing: "Severe infant kidney infections, which can lead to kidney damage, are 10 times more common in uncircumcised males in the first year of life."<br /><br />The original study (by Wiswell) compared fullterm circumcised boys with uncircumcised prematurely born boys. A fair number of the premature boys had had catheters inserted, as well as other physical and immunological problems. Yep, the research was ridiculously invalid and has been discredited. <br /><br />Chances of penile cancer: 1 in 100,000. If circumcision prevented penile cancer, 99,999 boys would have to be circumcised uselessly for 1 old man to not have cancer. And, it is a very easy cancer to cure in the early stages (it is a form of skin cancer). <br /><br />Oh, and the 60% figure: 1% of circumcised men and 1.6% of uncircumcised men acquired HIV in a study in which less than half the men overall were followed up and in which the study was ended early when the results started looking bad.<br /><br />The science supporting circumcision is just non-existent. Larry & Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06230035806659205391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-78610812114747064102013-01-05T01:52:02.034-08:002013-01-05T01:52:02.034-08:00Thanks for the heads up! Corrected the mistake. Th...Thanks for the heads up! Corrected the mistake. Thx!Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14190648498809795551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-9873117062044127502013-01-05T01:27:23.497-08:002013-01-05T01:27:23.497-08:00"If an American boy is uncircumcised, it gene..."If an American boy is uncircumcised, it generally means his parents are immigrants, usually Hispanic, or low-income."<br /><br />Here Schoen unwittingly reveals a deep and long standing driver of American routine infant circumcision: The notion that having a natural penis means that one was born to impoverished parents, oblivious to hygienic and sexual propriety.<br /><br />In a word: Snobbishness.<br /><br />"...[intact men] may have social problems in the United States, where circumcision is the standard."<br />Schoen was born in 1925. How would a man his age know the state of erotic play in bedrooms occupied by college age and 20 somethings experimenting sexually before settling into a committed relationship?? Has Schoen ever talked to women like Lacy Green? Carlin Ross? Molly McFly (who is Jewish)?<br /><br />"...easier genital hygiene leads to improved and more varied sexual relations."<br />'More varied' is a dubious conclusions of Laumann et al (1997). The willingness to admit to sex acts beyond vaginal intercourse is correlated with education. Education is in turn correlated with family circumstances which are also correlated with RIC. And how in the world does one quantify the quality of sexual relations? And without such quantification, how can one say that circumcision improves sexual relations?<br /><br /><br />Schoen is a provincial product of upper middle class urban California during the first half of last century. The stratified America of his youth no longer exists. The Bay Area and the rest of California have moved on; Schoen hasn't.<br /><br />Circumcision is seldom a medical issue, but instead is almost entirely a major unsolved problem in the social psychology of human sexuality. This is especially in countries like the USA, where deference to religious mandates is not invoked.RDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05120095550637873753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-53674466846136950082013-01-04T12:28:08.158-08:002013-01-04T12:28:08.158-08:00I was struck by the violent metaphor of
"The ...I was struck by the violent metaphor of<br />"The Bay Area is ground zero for activist organizations gunning against circumcision, such as NOCIRC, NOHARMM and Intact."<br /><br />Whether by "Ground Zero" he's thinking of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, when predominantly circumcised Americans attacked intact Japanese, or 2001, when circumcised Muslims attacked Americans, the violence of the imagery is at odds with what is actually happening in the Bay Area - people are persuading others not to attack the genitals of babies with knives.<br /><br />His "poems" are printed in full at http://www.circumstitions.com/Schoens.html. The whole piece is written in sarcasm, and the "hat" in the line you quote is the foreskin, but its a confused mess, so it's not at all clear.Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01626096729466629067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-548248685729133691.post-62622279922570604612013-01-04T11:21:13.036-08:002013-01-04T11:21:13.036-08:00Another great article, Joseph! Just one small sug...Another great article, Joseph! Just one small suggestion. Is this right? <br /> "Research shows, however, that very few physicians, as little as 96%, ever use analgesia."<br />I think you mean 4% here. <br />Thanks for all you do to inform and protect!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com