Circumcision

By: Jaime Cruz

The Circumcision its a practice that starts from 5th century BC, and the first culture who start this activity was de Egyptian. In other culture the circumcision was practiced by the Jews for over 4500 years ago. Abraham was circumcised by a divine order according to biblical texts.
In my opinion the circumcision it’s a healthy practice because no one is forced to do this operation. “The health care provider will usually numb the penis with local anesthesia before the procedure starts. The numbing medicine may be injected at the base of the penis, in the shaft, or applied as a cream.
There are a variety of ways to perform a circumcision. Most commonly, the foreskin is pushed from the head of the penis and clamped with a metal or plastic ring-like device”. In this way the circumcision has a variety of intervention by making it a safe practice.
The circumcision in older and adolescent boys is usually done under general anesthesia, the child is completely asleep, and the baby’s have local anesthesia.
American Academy of Pediatrics made a study of the risk of children who are not circumcised.
Bleeding, infection, redness around the surgery site, injury to the penis. The study concludes that are a risk of cancer in male infants including: cancer of the penis, sexually transmitted HIV, infections of the penis, phimosis, and urinary tract infections. American Academy recommend Hygiene of the penis and “safe sexual practice can help prevent many of these conditions”. The most important practice is hygiene always.
In the society the circumcision its seen as a bad practice because most of the countries that comprising ONU rejects this practice. This practice is a violation of the ethics and integrity of the male.
“In ancient Greeks and Romans valued the foreskin and were opposed to circumcision”, this trade was inherited by the secular legal system of the Christian West. By the way, the laws in many countries and United States Federal laws, refuse the genital modification and mutilation of male minors, with come exception based on medical need. Other important point it’s the opponents of female mutilation of minors and says: “ Assert that laws against genital modification and mutilation of minors should apply equally to males and females”.

However a report  by  Unicef says: "When the practice first came to be known beyond the societies in which it was traditionally carried out, it was generally referred to as "female circumcision". This term, however, draws a direct parallel with male circumcision and, as a result, creates confusion between these two distinct practices." Its very important to know the circumcision in female its equals than of male and opponents consider this practice equality.
“This stance has been largely echoed by Western medical and political authorities. The Australian Medical Association states: "The AMA rejects the euphemism "female circumcision", sometimes used to describe the various forms of female genital mutilation, because the use of this phrase trivializes the severe and often irreparable physical and psychological damage occasioned to girls and women by these practices”. In general, this practice has been taken into account worldwide and is critical to know because it is global contingency and need to know it to be more informed.
Another important report was in Xhosa of South Africa where this traditional circumcision caused many deaths of children who were circumcised in poor condition. In 2009 in Eastern Cape Province alone, 80 boys died and hundreds were hospitalized after after being circumcised. Finally “NOCIRC opposes the non-therapeutic circumcision of children” The organization suggests that circumcision must be done when the person need it only when it is absolutely medically necessary.

see more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/health/23consumer.html

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/surgery/circumcision/overview.html?8qa


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