Mark Lyndon

Umm, I know it’s your blog and you can do what you want, but why did you remove one link and not the other? What do you mean by this: “scare tactics from those who practice shoddy work”?

That first link seems to show a healthy penis, albeit with a much longer than usual foreskin, yet it was being presented as something that “should on instinctive level suggest” that circumcision is a good thing. In countries where they cut women, they find intact female genitalia distasteful, especially if the labia minora are larger than average, but that doesn’t make it acceptable to cut parts off girls.

My link gave a warning, and showed the damage that can result from circumcision. Yes the images are graphic, but I didn’t think they were out of place, since we’re talking about genital surgery on infants, and a link to an explicit image had just been posted. It’s worth noting that many of the problems are cosmetic rather than medical complications, and men who have been circumcised apparently usually don’t even realise that their skin tags, skin bridges, twists etc were caused by circumcision. Most of these complications only arise with circumcision of newborns btw.

There are only two countries in the world where more than 50% of baby boys are circumcised – the USA and Israel. 90% of male Christians never get circumcised.