We will answer your questions about caring for an intact boy. Perhaps all the males you know of are circumcised (although the rates are dropping quickly in the US), and you’re unsure about keeping your child whole based on “something you read on the internet”.Īt Little Images, we are here to support you as you protect your son. It’s hard to go against what seems to be “doctor’s advice” if your doctor says circumcision is beneficial or your son will be fine either way. We would never consider removing other healthy body parts from an infant. You can read more about how circumcision violates the principles of medical ethics here. Without a clear medical indication, it’s not our call to decide how much body our child gets to keep. Someone without a medical degree is able to understand how a non-therapeutic surgery is, by definition, harmful. In other words, we’re already doing this and we want to find a benefit to justify it.
It is clear that these medical benefits are post-hoc (=after the fact) justifications of a cultural habit. The supposed medical benefits of circumcision change every few years. That means that there’s really no net benefit in that area, as there would be a good number of complications with 111 circumcisions, and more importantly, those 111 people lose a healthy and important sexual and protective part of their anatomy. A meta-analysis of 12 studies concluded that it would take 111 circumcisions to prevent one UTI.
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Not only are some doctors not aware of how to safely care for intact (=not circumcised) boys, some also repeat cultural myths about circumcision as if they were undisputed.įor example, you may hear from a doctor or other medical professional that the purpose of circumcision is to prevent infections. This common error from doctors can injure boys and introduce bacteria and infection where none would otherwise exist. Many American doctors still advise parents to retract (=pull back the foreskin of) babies and toddlers for cleaning, even though medical organizations specifically advise not to. In fact, many American medical textbooks teach only how to cut off a boy’s foreskin, not how to treat even the most minor maladies associated with it. Circumcision rates were high in the US when most doctors were growing up, so circumcised anatomy may be all they are familiar with. If my child’s doctor offers it, it must have some medical purpose.” But what if your doctor considers circumcision an OK choice because of culture and habit rather than actually understanding the ethics and best practices surrounding the issue? Don’t Confuse Your Doctor’s Cultural Opinion with Medical Consensusĭepending on when and where they went to medical school, your doctor may not know much about the natural anatomy and development of male children. Maybe your first reaction when hearing this, is “well, you can’t believe everything you read on the internet. It is unethical and ought not to be done to infants. If you look around the Little Images website, you’ll see that we take a position that circumcision is not necessary or beneficial for a child’s health, and in fact harms in many ways. It’s well-documented that open heart surgery was performed on babies with zero anesthesia up until the 80’s because the common belief was that babies couldn’t even feel it. What kind of cigarettes does YOUR doctor smoke?
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