Have you seen this one? http://drmomma.blogspot.com/2009/10/mri-studies-brain-permanently-altered.html

I am looking for someone to do an expose' on a custom. I am a nurse in newborn nursery. The pain that sweet tiny baby boys go through during a circumcision horrifies me. It is surgery without anesthesia. It is 10 minutes of pure hell. The pain is so horrendous that many babies go into shock immediately. They just stare and make gurgly noises. They are the lucky ones. The others remain perfectly aware of the pain that goes on and on. Their piercing screams haunt me. In history, the earliest surgery was done without anesthesia. Just tie them down and do it quick. Some people were willing to have surgery once. But I've read that people refused to endure surgery a second time - even if it meant death. They knew how severe the pain was, and decided they would rather die than endure that pain a second time. How can intelligent, educated people not realize that a scalpel causes a horrendous, sharp, excruciating pain that no human being should ever have to endure. Tell me how a custom can be so strong that it overpowers intelligence and common sense. For example, the Chinese custom of "binding" young girls' feet. The toes were forced down under the foot [ breaking bones, I believe ] and tightly bound forever. So the feet couldn't grow. Forever small. Big feet were considered UGLY. No one would marry a girl with big feet. Can you imagine the pain? Americans are not under the influence of Chinese customs and from a distance, we are apalled! But in China, even after a law was passed against foot-binding, some parents would still do it - knowing that they were going to prison. That is how strong a custom can be. It can cloud judgement. The pain of circumcision wouldn't be quite as bad if the foreskin was fully developed at birth. But it is still adhered to the glans [ head of the penis ] and does not separate naturally for several years. Mother Nature may be slow, but it produces an exquisitely sensitive sexual organ. The first step of a circumcision is to rip the adhered foreskin off the glans using a metal probe. But the two skins are still fused as one. And patches of skin are ripped off the glans in the process. I see the glans of these tiny penises with skin missing and the tissue exposed every day. The pain is supposed to be comparable to having a metal probe forced under your fingernail and ripping it back and forth until the fingernail comes off. Imagine the pain! It is now recommended that a pain block be used. But it is not a law. So only a few babies get it. So why do we do it? Because it is what we are used to. A custom. Explain that to a baby that is enduring a pain that no human being should ever have to endure! There are many other reasons not to circumcise. It is removing the best skin of the penis. The foreskin contains approx. 20,000 specialized nerves that enhance sexual pleasure. The skin remaining is crude and has only a fraction of the sensation. The foreskin is NOT extra skin. It is there so that the penis can get longer during an erection. It is designed to unfold and stretch out, allowing the penis to grow. In the process, the foreskin is pulled off the glans. The glans is then uncovered and now the intact penis looks the same as a circumcised penis. They end up looking the same during an erection. But the intact penis is larger and has more sensation. Over the years, doctors have invented excuses for circumcision and the public latches onto them. These excuses are false and misleading. There is no reason good enough to inflict such sharp, excruciating pain on someone you love. To forever decrease his sexual pleasure. To amputate the best, most sensitive part of his penis. To violate his human rights. As I watch parents hug and kiss their new babies. Then insist that their babies endure a pain that is comparable to a fingernail being ripped off with a metal probe. And then a scalpel cuts - with no anesthesia. I want to scream, "Do you love your baby, or hate him?" There are many organizations that would help you with an expose'. They are easy to find on the internet. Please help! Babies are weak. This custom is strong.

P.S. For anyone else who's been circumcised, reading accounts of adults who decided to have it done and were happy about their decision can be helpful.

It's interesting how much my feelings changed when I heard some opposing viewpoints of people who had chosen to be circumcised and thought it was the best decision they ever made.

There is no question in my mind that the physical pain in the procedure is traumatic. You mentioned a pain block -- I think that should be a law.

If I read about the trauma of having a circumcision in infancy, I'll be very upset. If I read about how people are so happy they had it done, I'll be very happy.

I don't know how to ethically research these things. But maybe it isn't a coincidence that people who were circumcised in infancy seem to get a lot more heated up about these things than people who chose to have it done.

Obviously I will want to be happy with what I have because there's nothing I can do about it. So for me, I'll leave it at the good comments, the people who were happy for having it done.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that circumcision can contribute to psychological problems. I think that the argument being about the benefits of 'cut' vs. 'uncut' completely misses the point.

Before this is figured out I would at the very least hope that a painless procedure for circumcision can become a law. It's very easy to just think about sex and the sex organ in a discussion like this, when in reality, we're human beings, not just one part of our anatomy, but our whole anatomy.

Teeth problems can contribute to heart disease. Genital mutilation can probably contribute to brain damage. Reading about how people like being circumcised makes me feel more secure about myself, and with arguments from both sides, I'd say the psychological trauma is the biggest concern.

Many circumcised men have sex and probably don't think anything of it. Same for uncircumsised men.

The density of nerves in the foreskin probably has a lot to do with how much the procedure without pain blocks can traumatize someone. Although I'm not sure if pain blocks would even get rid of that completely.

Maybe it's wrong to divide people, too. Circumcised, uncircumsised...to think about it as a human rights issue is the key. Opinions on the genitals themselves pre or post operation will always vary. If this is proven to cause brain damage we'll have another case on our hands -- a much clearer one.

I don't know any ethical way to research this. But I would think it'd make perfect sense that it would cause brain damage.

The root of all problems? No. No single thing is. A contributor? Sure could be. I also think having to go through such a horror would basically be the definition of a traumatic episode qualifying for PTSD diagnosis. It may sound ridiculous but it makes a lot of sense to me. Pain blocks should be mandatory, but I don't know what those could do physically to infants either.

It's a crazy world.

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