Take a tour of what people are saying about male circumcision in this month's edition of the Circumcision Blog Crawl.
This special edition recognizes the 18th annual Genital Integrity Awareness Week march and demonstration in the U.S. Capital, March 28th - April 3rd.
Find out why the Genital Integrity rate of American boys is rising as more parents protect their sons' right to choose.
The first featured blog post is entitled "Why I'm Against Circumcision"...
Why I'm Against Circumcision By illicitexplorations, 3/19/2011
I knew I didn't want to have my son circumcised and I did as much research as I could to make sure it was the right choice. I learned more about the penis than most people could ever hope to know, and I'm more than confident that leaving my son intact was the right choice. Especially after I saw a video of what happens when a baby boy is circumcised. As far as I'm concerned, no one is cutting off any piece of my infant son, let alone his genitals!
Botox or Circumcision which is better? by The Mom: Informed, 3/27/2011
Recently, a story broke about a mother injecting her 8 year old with Botox. It made all of the mainstream media pages and garnered a slew of "WTF?'s" from people near and far. People called, "Child abuse" and asked why CPS wasn't involved. All of that got me to thinking...Why would injecting an eight year old with botox get more of an emotional response and cries of negative feelings about it than the non medically necessary circumcision of a newborn baby boy? I mean a little touch of botox in an older child's head surely causes FAR less damage than the stripping and cutting away of a perfectly functioning piece of flesh from a less than a day old baby boy's penis. When the botox is administered, the girl has no real reaction to it. When the baby boy is cut, he is strapped down, barely numbed and is screaming through the entire procedure until he stops, only because he has gone into shock.
About circumcision... by Chinacat Sunflower, 3/25/2011
I saw one being done. It was awful. [...]
Anyway, after watching the procedure, I mentioned it to ODS, who is 16 now. I told him why I had chosen not to to do that to him and that if he felt he wanted it done, that was okay, too. He told me first of all, no one is going near that part of his body with a knife thankyouverymuch. Second of all, he felt glad that I protected him and that putting a baby through that might hurt the trust they had for their parents. Third, no child of his would ever have the procedure either.
Circumcision- A Mother's Ramblings by Mama Birth, 3/2/2011
I have noticed lately that in my classes there are lots of questions about circumcision. It is a subject that I try to approach very gently so as not to upset people or turn them off, no matter what direction they are coming from.
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It makes sense, logically, that the female body is designed beautifully to both gestate and birth with power and joy. Women have long done this and it seems obvious that the entire process must occur for some reason that is important for the species and for the woman and child.
If we follow this line of thinking, it seems to also make sense that the baby boy, when born, is beautiful and perfect just the way it is. Just as we would not cut a hole in the mothers abdomen unless absolutely necessary, we would not cut off a part of his body, unless there were some very good reason for it. Why would he be born with an immediately expendable and useless part?
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Trying to avoid as many unnecessary traumatic and invasive procedures right after birth is a gift that I desperately want to be able to give my children. Avoiding circumcision is just one thing among many others that for me just doesn't fit into the first days of a babies new life. I believe that how they are treated in their first hours and days can impact them forever in ways that we can not see or measure immedietly. That is why I chose not to circumcise.
March 28th - April 3rd is Genital Integrity Awareness Week
U.S. Capitol GIAW Events: Genital Integrity Awareness Week
DailyKos Group: Kossacks for the Choice to be Genitally Intact