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Circumcision Exposed
Rethinking a Medical and Cultural Tradition

by author Billy Ray Boyd

174 pages - Crossing Press 1998

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Contents

Foreword

About the Author
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CONTENTS

Foreword Paul Fleiss, M.D

Introduction

Circumcision: An Overview

Male Circumcision

Statistics

The Reality of Infant Circumcision

So What's the Big Deal?

Visualising the Operation

Female Circumcision

Statistics

Common Origins of Female and Male Circumcision

Calling for an End to All Genital Mutilation

Weaving Our Voices

"Medical" Basis for Circumcision

An Operation in Search of a Disease

Dr. Aaron Fink's Crusade

Media Complicity

Health Professionals Opposed to Circumcision

Religious Basis for Circumcision

The Covenant Between God and Abraham

Maternal Instincts vs. The Covenant

Patriarchy and Tradition

Who Am I to Criticize?

Taking Personal Responsibility

The Jewish Reform Movement and Circumcision

Healing our Culture, Healing Ourselves

The Loss

Masking the Mutilation
Foreskin Restoration

Infant Rights

Legal Actions

Direct Action

Voicing Our Pain: On the Path to Healing

Afterword

Resources

Appendix

Non-Circumcision Notification Form

Male Health and Genital Care

Endnotes

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FOREWORD

Babies are a miracle. They come complete and perfect with all their
functional parts ready to develop into a total human being. It is
our job as parents, teachers, and others to guide them in growth and
development to become the best they can be - to become intelligent,
compassionate, healthy individuals in mind, body, and spirit.

A baby is born into an imperfect world, yet he or she is pure and
full of trust. A baby's wants and needs are simple. A baby needs
nourishment - not only physical, but emotional nourishment. S/he
wants to he held and hugged and loved and kissed and touched, to
hear music - soothing and gentle sounds - like those produced by a
harp, cello, or human voice.

It seems absurd that today we choose to mutilate a significant
percentage of our newborn infants. As a young medical student in the
1960s, I learned the technique of performing the surgical procedure
of male circumcision. It was not difficult to learn this procedure,
and I very rapidly became expert at removing the foreskin from a
newborn. I was able to do circumcisions in a very short amount of
time - four or five minutes. I did this at the parents' request, and
I was oblivious to the infant's cry.

Several years later into my pediatrics career, after having
performed perhaps a hundred circumcisions, I became aware of the
newborn's pain that I had somehow managed to put out of my
consciousness. I now know that every baby that I circumcised cried
and that I never responded to their pain. I then decided I was on
their side; my job was to protect babies, not harm them. It was only
then that I began my study of the foreskin, how it is unlike any
tissue found elsewhere in the human body and accordingly, has
special functions. The doctors and others performing this procedure
on newborn babies do not know the pain they are causing nor do they
appreciate the functions of that unique bit of tissue.

Billy Ray Boyd, in writing this book, will have a profound impact on
a ritual more than 2,000 years old that has been based on
superstition, tradition, and religious beliefs, with little basis in
medicine. This book will change outmoded methods of thinking.
Parents, doctors, and religious leaders will learn from this book
and come away from it with regret that this procedure was done to
them and done by them.

It is understandable that parents, doctors, and religious leaders
have always wanted what is best for their children. It is only by
changing this practice that we will stop hurting our babies in a
manner that cannot be good for them. Circumcision not only destroys
an important part of anatomy and, therefore, the male's physiology,
but also psychologically and emotionally damages them.

Infants do feel pain. This has been proven without a doubt in many
recent studies. To continue to perform this procedure on our babies
without medical justification is a practice that should and will
end. This book will make that end come sooner rather than later.

Paul M. Fleiss, M.D.
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Paul Fleiss, M.D., has been a practicing pediatrician in Hollywood
for over thirty years. He has treated over 30,000 patients,
including the children of some of Hollywood's most famous stars. Dr.
Fleiss is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at College
of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, and a lecturer at UCLA
School of Public Health. He is on the medical advisory board for La
Leche League International and also on the advisory board for the
National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
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bill ray boyd - circumcision exposed Billy Ray Boyd lectures and
faciliates workshops on the topic of male circumcision. He founded The
Victims Speak in the 1980s, which provided a model for the present-day
National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males
(NOHARMM). He teaches at City College of San Francisco, and is the
author of For the Vegetarian in You.

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