Routine Circumcisions: Not Always Routine, Not Always Safe

Circumcision Damage: Some Bad Outcomes

To help parents make an informed decision about infant circumcision, Dr. Mervyn Lander, an Australian physician, has provided the following photos of circumcision side effects.

Doctors sometimes claim that infant circumcision is simple and safe. Some say they've done thousands and thousands with nary a problem. Undoubtedly, that's what the parents of these boys were told beforehand.

What's the chance of your baby suffering one or more of these mishaps? Unfortunately, reliable statistics are in short supply.

Some circumcisers routinely perform only radical circumcisions in which very little foreskin is preserved, so that the great majority of boys that are cut this way will experience tight, uncomfortable erections as adults.

Some cirumcisers routinely destroy the frenulum (the tight connection between the head of the penis and the shaft). For many men, the frenulum provides intense sexual pleasure.

It's unknown how often circumcision causes death or other medical catastrophes, because these disasters typically result from massive bacterial infection that migrates from the circumcision wound and causes life-threatening conditions including; septicemia (blood poisoning) liver abcess, kidney abcess, joint abcess, and meningitis. Circumcision as the real cause of these disasters may never be determined nor, if fatal, recorded on the death certificate.

Because routine circumcision is not medically necessary, issues of liability for medical malpractice may make some hospitals less than enthusiastic about identifying circumcision as the root cause of infant death or other catastrophic outcome.

Continue to examples of circumcision damage. Warning: NSFW.

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