Circumcision of Healthy Boys: Criminal Assault?

SamaelET · 2022-06-09T15:39:21+00:00

Ritual male circumcision is non-therapeutic and is not warranted or justifiedby medical evidence. This form of mutilation should not be legally distinguished from female circumcision ... presently being prohibited throughout Australia and the Western world. As ritual male circumcision isnon-therapeutic, may be against public policy, and clearly is not in the bestinterests of the child, a parent's consent may be vitiated, leaving personsinvolved in the procedure liable in negligence, notwithstanding parental religious beliefs.

Non-therapeutic, invasive and irreversible major surgery, especially sexual reduction surgery on unconsenting minors, is unethical. The standard of care for infrequent events such as infections is antibiotics, not amputation. Circumcision of healthy male minors is useless and traumatic, causing severeand lasting harm physically, sexually and often psychologically. As medical ethicist Margaret Somerville pointed out: Moreover, neonatal circumcision is done without consent of the subject, removes healthy tissue with unique anatomical structure and function, and leads to differences in adult sexual behaviour... We need, therefore, toaddress the issue directly and end the persistent efforts to find a medical rationale for circumcision by removing the cloak of medicine from this procedure.

Title	Circumcision of Healthy Boys: Criminal Assault?
Author	SamaelET
Upvotes	10
Comments	1
Date	June 9, 2022 3:38 PM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
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