Did I Ruin My Son's Penis? | Sarah Tuttle-Singer | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Isr

SilencingNarrative · 2012-07-04T23:54:36+00:00

I will never forgive the american medical establishment for aiding and abetting my circumcision as an infant. And I cant take feminists who think it is no big deal seriously as moral thinkers.

0mega_man · 2012-07-05T00:50:37+00:00

This part of Jewish heritage is certainly nothing to be proud of, as she clearly is.

girlwriteswhat · 2012-07-04T17:37:42+00:00

It's cool that she thought "His body, his choice", but I wish she'd been more adamant about it. :/

SchizophrenicMC · 2012-07-05T04:13:42+00:00

What really offends me is the comments, which basically amount to saying "You go girl".

MGM is analogous to FGM. Both are the removal of healthy sex organ tissue, both reduce the use of the genitalia, both can have serious complications. You wouldn't remove your daughter's clitoris, why would you cut off a part of your son's penis? As a man with an incomplete penis, I'm disgusted at how it's considered okay to destroy the penis.

gprime · 2012-07-04T20:31:57+00:00

And I was scared that one day my son would grow up to resent our decision to have him circumcised.

I know I resent the choice my parents made. They were nominally observant at the time, and are atheists now. Both then and now they believe they did the right thing, and that it is just a part of being Jewish. But I was never given a say in it, and being that I wound up an atheist, I really do resent being mutilated to please non-existent entity that, as described in the Torah, is a violent psychopath to begin with.

SilencingNarrative · 2012-07-04T21:36:23+00:00

My parents are not Jewish, not even religious. They had me circumcised at birth just because it was the thing to do. It was automatic, they told me they didn't even think about it.

I don't resent them for it. Their views of have changed and they've told me if they had another son (they won't, too old now) they wouldn't have him circumcised. It was just the culture and common thinking of the time, but at least it's changing. Every year circumcision rates drop and people are more aware that it's a serious human rights issue.

mean0dean0 · 2012-07-05T21:07:13+00:00

His body, her choice. If only we felt the same way about our daughters, amirite??

Irrel_M · 2012-07-05T00:17:18+00:00

Well at least she thought about it on time.

Oh wait.

2012-07-04T18:46:21+00:00

http://www.foregen.org/

The site I linked above is dedicated to reversing what you've done. Hopefully, it'll turn into a viable medical procedure in the near future and your son can opt to restore what's been taken from him.

EDIT: I don't know if OP is the author or not. If OP isn't, then just change everything to the third person.

Scott2508 · 2012-07-04T20:51:38+00:00

Simple 3 questions to ask in this situation.

Is it your right to put your childs life at risk for an operation that could kill or main him ?.

Is your religion more important than the lives of children who have died because of ritual or even medical circumcision ?.

If your religion puts this act above the value of a childs life is your god worth your devotion ?

8878587 · 2012-07-05T19:59:47+00:00

Don't read the comment section. Jesus fucking Christ. Half of those commenting do not even have penises, and they shrug off a foreskin like it's nothing.

Religion does crazy things to people.

Title	Did I Ruin My Son's Penis? \| Sarah Tuttle-Singer \| Ops & Blogs \| The Times of Isr
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Date	July 4, 2012 5:31 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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