Cate, et al

Thank you SO MUCH for standing up for this cause. ...

2010-08-24T05:59:14.323-04:00

Thank you SO MUCH for standing up for this cause.

It means a LOT that you are brave and honest enough to share your story with us.

It is only through talking about it that we'll end this practice.

You thanked us, but you need just as much thanks in return for what you've done.

I hope your son will realize how fortunate he is that you cared SO MUCH for his right to genital integrity.

Cate, you praised us male intactivists in words th...

2009-11-04T19:17:56.849-05:00

Cate, you praised us male intactivists in words that were as moving as they were grateful. Thank you, but the fate of the American foreskin rests in the hands of mothers of your generation, and the young unmarried women who will become mothers 5-20 years from now.

There are many women intactivists, and I have greatly enjoyed reading them. The leader of the intactivist community is Marilyn Milos of California, nurse, mother, and grandmother. Time and again, I have been elated and deeply moved by the passion and common sense that women bring to bear to something seemingly very alien to a woman's thinking and emotions.

All a woman need understand is that the only advanced country other than the USA to circumcise heavily for nonreligious reasons is South Korea. They adopted the practice in the 1960s and 70s, under strong USA influence, but do it at puberty instead of birth.

The UK and New Zealand used to routinely circumcise, but gave it up 1-2 generations ago. In Canada and Australia, it's at 15% of babies and falling. In the foreskin is a health problem, we would know it by now. When I was a teen in the 1960s, I overheard that Europe did not circumcise because it was medically and hygienically backward. You decide if such smug provincialism can fly nowadays!

In my view, circumcision discards is the most sensitive bits of the male body. Hence a lot of potential male pleasure is at stake. This is not to deny that many, perhaps most, circumcised young men are satisfactory sex partners. There is a possibility that the foreskin contributes to female pleasure. I can promise you one thing: the factory model makes for great foreplay!

We are agreed that, now that American hospitals mostly do not push routine circ, the main motive is parents fearing that their boy will look weird in the locker room and on dates. Parents also don't want to be reminded of the foreskin every time they change Bubs's nappy or give him a bath. Intact is almost like a third sex, you know!

Here's my retort to this mad pursuit of conformity. 1-2% of women grow up to have ample inner lips. Some women for which this is true are ashamed of using a locker room, are scared to death of the first time with a new partner. There are plastic surgeons in every major USA city who will do cosmetic surgery to women insecure about their privates. Do you as a woman approve of such surgery, or do you believe that women and society should mature and become more tolerant of diversity?

If you love your spouse and the father of your boy, but have decided that circumcision is sexually weird, your emotions are normal, and you have linked arms with many of your North American sisters.

hahahah! i just googled myself (Elijah Lucian) and...

2009-09-24T23:17:18.388-04:00

hahahah! i just googled myself (Elijah Lucian) and got this. wow what a coincidence!

happy blogging!

Oh. My. God. Wait...you mean I'm going to have to ...

2009-04-15T16:07:00.000-04:00

Oh. My. God. Wait...you mean I'm going to have to teach my sons to respect their own bodies and that of their partners and wear condoms?! I never thought of that! Good thing you're here to remind me; I better notify the masses of equally unreasonable and selfish parents who have left their sons intact and notify them of this development.

The rate of penile cancer is .2 percent. The rate of UTIs in boys is 2 percent, and they've both already passed the first "worrisome" year when it is more likely to happen.
I think I'll buy both of them some scratch-off tickets, because now they have a better chance of winning a few bucks than having their foreskin give them or anyone else any problem whatsoever.
I mean, anyone besides YOU.

I won't dignify your "browbeat" comment with a remark.

So you browbeat your husband into keeping your son...

2009-04-15T12:48:00.000-04:00

So you browbeat your husband into keeping your sons uncircumcised. Congratulations.

Of course you know that you sons now have 12 times the risk of UTI and 22 times the risk of penile cancer and when they become sexually active they must use a condom otherwise have a 60% greater risk. But your willing to gamble with your sons health, so all is good.

For other parents considering circumcision, check out these links to research findings...

http://bit.ly/iQZbx

http://bit.ly/19tNAV

http://bit.ly/CshrY

http://www.malecircumcision.org/research/clinical_research.html

http://tinyurl.com/b7crha

You're right!
Clearly you see that I'm trying t...

2009-03-05T11:46:00.000-05:00

You're right!
Clearly you see that I'm trying to placate him with some normal, natural info, and he keeps going back to Titty Talk.
I'm just painted into a corner by this convo. I was defending the *right for Elijah to EAT*
Today I realize: why try to make something seem normal to a guy who is so obviously not?!

I just don't get what's worse: that we feel so nec...

2009-03-05T11:37:00.000-05:00

I just don't get what's worse: that we feel so necessary to defend how discreet we're being and STILL are looked at as freaks, or that it even matters if we're discreet or not! I mean I don't WANT to sit in public with my whole boob hanging out, and luckily for me that's not necessary. But really what is the big deal? It's NORMAL. Anyone who thinks that nursing is gross or inappropriate in some way needs to look at their OWN hangups and ask themselves why they feel that way about something so completely natural and beautiful.

Sometimes when I walk backwards I hear a quiet but...

2009-01-08T17:04:00.000-05:00

Sometimes when I walk backwards I hear a quiet but(t) distinct "Beep...Beep...Beep."

Right on, sister! I encourage my sisters (biologic...

2009-01-08T11:32:00.000-05:00

Right on, sister! I encourage my sisters (biological and otherwise) to be proud of their badonkadonks! I have a nickname at work... "Junky Trunk" lol