"Many men?" Many men, where? I lived in England for years when doing graduate study, where the vast majority of men are intact, and where the uniquely American practice of "hygienic/routine" circumcision is rightly regarded as barbaric, and this laceration of the foreskin and frenulum is unheard of. It's not like women come with vagina dentatas that grab onto the foreskin and bite down hard during the sex act.
On the other hand, maybe these patients you have interviewed as a part of your practice who somehow miraculously escaped being routinely subjected to amputation of the prepuce at birth are injured as a result of poor care they might have received as infants. Because so many pediatricians in the United States are unfamiliar with the penis in its normal state, they tell parents to pull back the foreskin before it has even started to detach itself from the penis, and clean, or their baby's penis might get dirty. This is not how an infant's penis should be cared for; it's a great way to cause permanent damage. And of course, it's very painful.
Maybe the patients you see are boys who sustained injuries as a result of premature foreskin retraction.
There is no medical benefit to amputation of the prepuce. None.
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"Many men?" Many men, where? I lived in England for years when doing graduate study, where the vast majority of men are intact, and where the uniquely American practice of "hygienic/routine" circumcision is rightly regarded as barbaric, and this laceration of the foreskin and frenulum is unheard of. It's not like women come with vagina dentatas that grab onto the foreskin and bite down hard during the sex act.
On the other hand, maybe these patients you have interviewed as a part of your practice who somehow miraculously escaped being routinely subjected to amputation of the prepuce at birth are injured as a result of poor care they might have received as infants. Because so many pediatricians in the United States are unfamiliar with the penis in its normal state, they tell parents to pull back the foreskin before it has even started to detach itself from the penis, and clean, or their baby's penis might get dirty. This is not how an infant's penis should be cared for; it's a great way to cause permanent damage. And of course, it's very painful.
Maybe the patients you see are boys who sustained injuries as a result of premature foreskin retraction.
There is no medical benefit to amputation of the prepuce. None.
July 4, 2011 - 9:22pmThis Comment
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