If a man wore boxers his whole life - his penis is probably straight as an arrow. Curvature is caused from tight undies scrunching it during an erection. It's scrunched to one side or the other and doesn't get proper blood supply to one side so the tissue breaks down - causing a hook to some degree or another.
So you shouldn't have your boys ware "tighty whiteys" - it's much better for them to ware boxers. Also tight undies lead to impotence and or sterility - the scrotum is made to drop further the hotter it is, that's so the testes stay at a regulated temperature. Too hot or cold and sperm production doesn't happen correctly.
So if the testicles aren't allowed to venture away from the body, they're too hot - sperm production is haltered. That's why when a man's hot - his testicles hang down. You should buy boxers for your kids and male partners- unless you want your kid to end up crooked or impotent.
And circumcision? Shouldn't have it done. Unless you're Jewish or Muslim or some other cultural religion type thing - there isn't a single reason to have a child circumcised. The foreskin is considered to be much more sensitive to pain and pleasure than a bald penis. Think of it this way - did you have your daughter's clit hood cut off? The foreskin and the clit hood serve the same purpose - any who told you different: You were told bullshit
"Cleaner, less infections"
Ernt, wrong. It’s only cleaner if you have a habit of not bathing. And the foreskin is deigned to protect the penis from infections from surface contact of germs same as the clit hood. They both secret the sensitive tissue with a protective layer of mucus that you clean out regularly from bathing. Cutting off the foreskin is the same as cutting off the clit hood: which you well know is sensitive tissue -
This article will explain where the circumcision nonsense came from and how it became popular (the article will be listed below Article A): http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/masturbation/kelloggs-cornflakes/
Because of a whack job: millions of innocent little boys get a sensitive part of their penises snipped off for no damn good reason at all. Like I said - it's the same trimming off your clit hood: completely uncalled for. So remember ladies, having your son(s) circumcised is the same as having your daughter’s clit hood removed – or your own. And Men the idea of trimming your daughter's clit hood or your wife's is plainly insane, so don’t do it now that you know the truth. Cutting off the foreskin is the same as cutting off the clit hood. And no body at all stands up and says "Hey wait a minute, this is wrong. A nutcase thought this up - why are we doing this?" It's called MGM - Male Genital Mutilation, and barely anyone knows about the truth or that men everywhere often feel that they've been violated by those closest to them. Circumcision also leads to penis curvature I might ad.
http://www.fathermag.com/health/circ/net-quot/, one man on that last one said that after he had it done as an adult - he lost at least 50% of sensation (this Article will be listed below as Article B)
"After 30 years in the intact state, I allowed myself to be persuaded by a physician to have the foreskin removed -- not because of any problems at the time, but because, in the physician's view, there might be problems in the future. That was five years ago, and I am sorry I had it done now from my standpoint and from what my female sex partners have told me. For myself, the sensitivity has been reduced by at least 50 percent..." Circ Info Network 950814
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"Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the bland breakfast flakes that go almost instantly limp in milk were originally invented to bore you into such a deep coma that you would fall face down in the milk drenched flakes, drown, and thereby be spared the temptation and sin known as masturbation.
Okay, that’s not entirely true – close, but not entirely true. What is true is that Dr. John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes (and the original version of granola) in the belief that wholesome, bland foods would eradicate at least one source of stimulation that led Americans to finger their clits and wank their weenies. Kellogg (like many Christian conservatives before and since) believed that masturbation, and in fact all sexual excess, was sinful. “Sexual excess” here being defined as "sex for anything but reproduction".
Apparently Kellogg himself wanted to avoid reproduction because, although he married, he never got around to hiding the salami with the Mrs. In fact, rather than roll sweetly in the sheets in the throes of wedded bliss, Kellogg chose to spend their honeymoon penning his influential book Plain Facts for Old and Young: Embracing the Natural History and Hygiene of Organic Life (published 1892). Talk about your dull, soggy flakes.
Although he had loads of advice for others on how to avoid the siren call of sin from one’s nether regions, Kellogg himself seems to have solved the problem by redirecting his attentions to an obsessive fascination with cleansing the bowels. The bowels or intestines, where putrification of food occurred, was a seething quagmire of polluting poisons that Kellogg believed harmful to the mind and spirit as well as the body. Kellogg, a vegetarian himself, recommended abstaining from flesh and spicy foods, augmenting the diet with plenty of fiber, drinking lots of water, and irrigating the arse with regular enemas of water with a yogurt chaser.
Because he was in charge of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Kellogg had ample license to apply his approach to well-to-do neurotics in need of mental restablizing – a fact amusingly dramatized in The Road To Wellville, the film version of T. Coraghessan Boyle’s 1993 novel. In one memorable scene, Kellogg orders “Take Mr. Lightbody immediately to the yogurt room and give him fifteen gallons!” Matthew Broderick (as William Lightbody) protests: “Oh no, no, I can't eat 15 gallons of yogurt!” To which Mr. Kellogg replies, “Oh, it's not going in THAT end, Mr. Lightbody!”
So enamored was Kellogg of the functioning of his bowels that he once observed, “Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!"
Plain Facts For Young And Old According to Kellogg, 90 percent of all human ills originated in the stomach and bowels. One would think however that all 90 percent originated in the twiddling of the crotch, given the fury with which Kellogg attacked the humble practice of masturbation. In Plain Facts for Old and Young , he advised that the the first line of defense was keeping children busy (i.e. daily working them to the point of exhaustion) and constantly under surveillance. The vigilant parent must especially be aware of children’s goings on in the bathtub, on the toilet, or in bed for solitude was a temptation to vice.
Furthermore, all parents were urged to watch for such tell-tale “symptoms” of masturbation as bad posture (slumped shoulders), a fear of the opposite sex, or wanting to hang out in groups with other children of the same gender. Stiffness in the hips and a stiff-legged gate in boys or a wiggly walk in girls were also clues. Also a child who suddenly became more bold – or more timid – was surely a masturbator as well.
To stop these hideous acts of depravity, Kellogg strongly advocated circumcision of young boys (note that, up until this era, most non-Jewish American boys were not circumcised), saying that the operation should be done without anesthesia because the remembered pain (and the soreness which followed for several weeks) would serve as a punishing reminder that would discourage the boy from masturbating ever again.
Another deterrent recommended by Kellogg was to wire a boy’s foreskin together at the end such that mere erection would become very painful. The wire was of course to be attached by piercing the foreskin with a needle, with the wire following along in place of thread. For the multitude of American males who do not (thanks to Kellogg and his ilk) have a foreskin, it may be worth mentioning that the foreskin is considered to be much more sensitive to pain and pleasure than the bald penis you may currently own.
A reminder not to slap the salami? But Kellogg did not single out only boys for torment, perish the thought. He was out to save the entire nation from evil. Girls too must be prevented from self-pleasuring, at all costs. For girls Kellogg recommended the application of carbolic acid directly to the clitoris as: an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence of the practice in those whose will-power has become so weakened that the patient is unable to exercise entire self-control.
The worse cases among young women are those in which the disease has advanced so far that erotic thoughts are attended by the same voluptuous sensations that accompany the practice. The author has met many cases of this sort in young women, who acknowledged that the sexual orgasm was thus produced, often several times daily. The application of carbolic acid in the manner described is also useful in these cases in allaying the abnormal excitement, which is a frequent provocation of the practice of this form of mental masturbation. Of course now medical doctors know that carbolic acid is extremely poisonous. When applied to the tissues, and when applied directly to muscle or nerve, it causes instant paralysis. And when swallowed undiluted, it produces violent gastro-enteritis, with vomiting and purging, followed by collapse, delirium, and often by convulsions and death.
Nonetheless, if carbolic acid did not do the trick, Kellogg reasoned it was necessary to surgically remove the clitoris. He cites one such surgery, performed by him, at the request of the girl’s father. Sure that his 10 year old would go to hell for her sinful indulgence, the father had resolved he would rather take her out in the wilderness and leave her to die rather than have her infect the minds of her siblings with her evil ways. Kellogg and cliterodectomy were her only hope for continued life and salvation. The good doctor happily obliged.
John Harvey Kellogg Although it is hard to judge whether Kellogg and similar theorists were the cause or merely the voice of 19th century Americans’ surging hysteria over masturbation, we can certainly see that the shadow of this era has lingered in our culture for over a century. Only now with the threat of HIV looming more menacingly, has our society begun to switch gears and tout masturbation as a good complement to abstaining from premarital sex. (But only because horny teens were having trouble abstaining without jacking off.) And Christian bible scholars are revealing the all new politically correct truth that the bible (gasp!) doesn’t really condemn masturbation at all. It was all a big mistake.
Surely Kellogg is rolling over in his grave at this latest theological development. But at least people still like his cornflakes. But wait! The cornflakes we consume today are not John Kellogg’s corn flakes. They are actually an adulterated version of his original creation, spiked with sugar and who knows what else. In fact the Kelloggs’ breakfast cereals were manufactured by his brother Will Kellogg, whom he sued for trotting out the Kellogg name on something much more palatable than the original crap served up at his Battle Creek Sanitarium. No doubt this insidious corruption of American breakfast cereal explains why Americans are the horny bastards they are today."
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"Male Genital Mutilation
Quotes from Internet Resources
In America today, people still have to fight for the right to keep their genitals intact. How can such a thing be true? It's absurd. It sounds like some sort of ethnic joke.
The percentage of American parents who choose to keep their boys' genitals intact is growing and varies according to the region of the US in which they live:
Northeast 32% intact
Midwest 18% intact
South 35% intact
West 62% intact
source: National Center for Health Statistics, US Department of Health and Human Services, 1997
If God had wanted us to be uncircumcised, we'd all be born with foreskins. --J.D. Ahmanson
Diminished Sexual Pleasure and Other Negative Effects
* If only the entire world could fit in that laboratory and see for themselves the damage that circumcision causes, circumcision would stop overnight. Circ Info Network 940713
* Those circumcised as an adult suffer less trauma because the man has consented to the surgery, the foreskin has already separated from the glans, anesthesia and post-operative pain management are used, and any pain may be rationalized as worth the price paid to accommodate his motivations. Surgical mishap is far more common in infancy than adulthood. Circ Info Network 950123
* During sexual intercourse, the foreskin acts as a moveable self-lubricating sheath, sliding up and down the shaft inside the vagina. This enhances sexual pleasure and comfort for both partners. The circumcised penis on the other hand, has no such advantage, which may explain, in part, why many American men and women rely on artificial lubricants during sexual activity. Also, many circumcised men and their partners complain of painful intercourse, which may be due to the abrasion resulting from the absence of the foreskin. Circ Info Network 940706
* ...gay guys look at each other's penises and they're not afraid to say something's wrong--like extensive scars, skin bridges, curvatures because so much so taken off one side. Like a ball-point pen, if you take the cap off, pretty soon it's going to fail because it dries up.' Circ Info Network 941130
* A 1991 survey of 301 males seeking foreskin restoration revealed that 70% of them hold deep resentment toward their parents for allowing this assault on their body... Circ Info Network 950922
* [The] demonstrators marched from the College of Marin to Marin General Hospital, which was the site of a circumcision accident two years ago that cost a baby the end of his glans, and the hospital that fired NOCIRC founder Marilyn Milos for obtaining informed consent by showing parents videotape of the procedure. Circ Info Network 950805
* ...physicians are not fully informing parents of the pain, risks and potential complications of removing an infant's foreskin. The problems, he said, include scarring and sexual dysfunction. "To impose circumcision on an unconsenting minor without disease or abnormality raises serious questions of ethics and human rights," Hammond asserted. Circ Info Network 950805
* Newborn circumcision also presents ethical and legal questions in the opinion of pediatrician George L. Williams, who stated in an October 1992 presentation to the Second International Childbirth Conference: "Do parents have the right to choose medically unnecessary and harmful cosmetic surgery for their children? I do not believe so." Circ Info Network 950814
* One newspaper article claims that doctors are worried that circumcised men may soon begin to sue them for assault, etc., and that parental consent will not be a valid defense. A strict interpretation of the law, after all, makes circumcision a crime. Circ Info Network 950821
* Being circumcised too tightly was the second commonest physical complaint mentioned in the NOHARMM survey. It affects the sexual enjoyment of both men and women. Some men with this condition suffer from bent erections. Some men circumcised too tightly report painful erections and painful intercourse with bleeding from the scar site or tears elsewhere. Women complain of painful intercourse due to what they interpret as insufficient lubrication. Negative Aspects of Routine Infant Circumcision
* Circumcision started in English-speaking countries as a means of preventing masturbation, doctors knowing full well that amputating the foreskin deprives a boy of a moveable foreskin to play with and erogenous tissue, which might be tempting. Not to mention the fact that masturbation was thought to cause dozens of diseases and conditions. Obviously, circumcision does not prevent masturbation, but it surely takes most of the fun of it. Circ Info Network 941216
* "After 30 years in the intact state, I allowed myself to be persuaded by a physician to have the foreskin removed -- not because of any problems at the time, but because, in the physician's view, there might be problems in the future. That was five years ago, and I am sorry I had it done now from my standpoint and from what my female sex partners have told me. For myself, the sensitivity has been reduced by at least 50 percent ..." Circ Info Network 950814
* At age 7 at boarding school, I saw that most of the other boys had been circ'd but my reaction was not, as is so often said by the mutilators, to accept that we were normal/regular but rather to wonder what had happened to all of us. By then I knew in my mind, even when my gut/my feelings still played the old 'sin-ridden' script, that we had been operated on but I still could not work out what had been wrong with so many of us that this had had to happen. From then to this day, I yearned for a foreskin, and envied those who had one. At age 9, when my parents suggested that I have surgery to correct the worst of the mess left [the bowing, the tags, the skin bridge] I can feel today as acutely as then the feelings of betrayal, of not wanting them to mess me up again; I also can recall with total clarity, to the extent that to-day at age 50 I can 'see' that room and my mother's face as she talked to me, the feelings of shame, anger, betrayal, hate, grief and bewilderment when she told me that my MGM had been a mistake, that there had been no reason for it, that all the scarring etc. was a result and not the reason for it. --from the noharmm mail list
Childhood "Phimosis"
* CIN has received several letters from worried parents of very young boys who have unretractable foreskins, and one from a reader who has a "cure" for childhood phimosis. More on that in a future CompuBulletin, but let it be known that although the great majority of boys can retract their foreskins by the age of three, the inability to do so up to the age of 17 or so is not unheard of, and is not a source of concern as long as there is no pain. Furthermore, it is reversible by simple stretching techniques. No one should be allowed to retract a boy's foreskin against his will. You wouldn't force open the vagina of your daughter, would you? Circ Info Network 941123
* It amuses me that there remains this argument about "something going wrong" if a person is left intact. Very few kids at school, as I recall, were circumcised, and those who had been were considered a curiosity (this was in the 60's). No-one ever went sick or developed awful diseases because of their natural state. It's all rather laughable seen from here, but hugely interesting to see what silliness is trotted out in the US. Circ Info Network 950506
* It is most unlikely that a three year old would have a "phimosis" problem requiring treatment so drastic as need for circumcision. This would never be the course of treatment for an uncircumcised child in Europe. --Childbirth Education Foundation Circ Info Network 941123
Jewish Issues and Responses
* "Like the archetypal southern sheriff who left a victimized black with nowhere to turn because the sheriff himself was a racist, the Equal Rights enforcement industry leaves us with nowhere to turn because it itself is sexist.
One professional feminist, knowledgeable about research into the learning process of preborns (let alone newborns) and a real advocate against sexual abuse, tried to squirm her way out of the issue by suggesting: "How do we really know that there is any long-term memory of this?" Yet, this woman would be the first to prosecute a dentist who fondled an unconscious patient, or, even worse, a man who masturbated into the face of an infant girl. The whole issue of 'memory' is a red herring." --Fred Hayward of Men's Rights, Inc. Circ Info Network 941116
* "One phenomenon which is holding us back is, ironically, mainstream opponents of female genital mutilation who stubbornly refuse to see the connection, or who somehow feel that only girls have an inherent right to an intact body, or that only boys are born imperfect and need to be operated on to be made 'normal.' " Circ Info Network 941228
* Circumcision Victim Says Pain Knows No Gender
At home she's become active in anti-circumcision circles, gender no object. "Cut is cut, mutilation is mutilation." --Meserka Ramsey, FGM victim from Ethiopia. Circ Info Network 950527
* Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, trying to outlaw female genital mutilation, acknowledged male genital mutilation (which she referred to as MGM) in a form letter to several activists. Circ Info Network 941228
Circumcision Is Not In the Best Interests
of the Health & Rights of the Child
This compact fact sheet includes reference sources, and covers the following topics:
# Scope of the Problem
# Early and Current Rationale
# Decision Making
# Foreskin Function
# Penile Development
# Immediate Risks and Complications
# Long-Term Adverse Outcomes
# Effects of Pain
# Maternal Bonding / Breastfeeding
# Questionable Benefits
# Medical Ethics
# Obstetrical Involvement
# Restoration Movement
# Children's Rights
# Why Does It Continue?
"Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to rid of." -- Mark Twain Circ Info Network 950821
* When a 40 year-old man wants to mutilate his penis, that's his own business.
* When he wants to mutilate his children's genitals, then he's practicing some kind of religious extremism.
* When he wants to mutilate my kids, he's asking for trouble.
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