A Message to Jewish Americans on Circumcision

Here is an interesting new angle for an article:

What happens to a baby boy’s foreskin after it’s removed in the hospital? Naturally, you might think that it is disposed of with other “medical waste,” but as I recently learned, that’s not always the case. There is, in fact, big money to be made in the foreskin business, not just the money gained from the removal, but from what becomes of the foreskin after the fact. Laura Hopper, a midwife who blogs at Alternative Birth Services recently wrote that wrinkle treatments are being made using American babies’ foreskins. Hopper quotes two articles, both detailing the use of baby foreskin in the cosmetic industry. From Acroposthion:

The most disturbing and alarming controversy is in the unethical trafficking of neonate foreskins. Not only do parents of North American baby boys have to pay between $200 to $300 to obstetricians to circumcise their boys that no sooner are the circumcised foreskins cut off that they are sold on to bio-engineering and cosmetics companies by the hospitals.

The resale value of neonate foreskins is astronomically dizzying in that from one boy’s foreskin can be grown bio-engineered skin in a lab to the size of a football field. That’s 4 acres of new skin or around 200,000 units of manufactured skin, which is enough skin to cover about 250 people and sells at $3,000 a square foot. Considering that there are 1.25 million neonate foreskins circumcised each year in the U.S alone this translates to one of the most lucrative trades, if not THE most lucrative trade in human body parts ever in the history of humanity.

http://crunchydomesticgoddess.com/2009/05/28/babies-foreskins-used-to-make-cosmetics-is-this-ethical/

Editor: I am horrified, but thanks so much for bringing our attention to this.

Real, "circumcision" is of the heart.

Q: How come the same website that denies the Jews their right to self-determination also attempts to redefine their religion?
Q: The same hatred of Jews that drives the vitriolic anti-Israeli rhetoric is also behind the support for the ban on circumcision. The Antisemitism behind the anti-circumcision proposal has been exposed and is out there for all to see:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/06/the-anti-semitism-behind-san-franciscos-anti-circumcision-proposal.html

Editor: We are not in the denial business, it is Israel that denies the right of return to the Palestinians, who are entitled to this.  You clearly hate all who are not Jewish and that friend is a sickness.  We are exactly the same toward people of all faiths and you are embarrassing to all of the good actions people are making in the Jewish community.  Lie long enough about people's intentions and you will have a negative impact, that is guaranteed.

It's great to see an open discussion about this. Just because some people have done it since antiquity doesn't make it right. Not one national medical association on earth (not even Israel's) endorses routine circumcision. Hundreds of thousands of men (Jewish and otherwise) are enduring a tedious multi-year process of non-surgical foreskin restoration to undo just some of the sexual damage of childhood foreskin amputation.

To: "Message to Goyim" Why don't you come out from behind your veil and let us see you for who you are... A scared little boy that mommy and daddy left home alone with the computer logged in..

who needs jews like these today we remove circumscions tomorrow the sabbath, thanks for your concerns..interesting that the orthodox family have 5+ children while the rest of the world can hardly handle two.

I wonder if the editor of this site prefers circumcised or uncircumcised?

Editor: Oh you're suggesting what?  If I were homosexual I would have a preference but I am a married 'breeder' and haven't a personal 'preference'.  However I write very similar content, albeit not from a Jewish perspective.  This is it; one third of the sexual feeling a male is meant to have comes from tissue that doctors routinely cut off and let fall to the hospital floor. 

We equally seem to abhor the idea of female circumcision and are aware of the fact that it devastates a woman's chance at sexual pleasure.  Well, every one of you (us) who allows this terrible procedure to take place, is committing a crime one third the severity of cutting off a girl's clitoris. 

God made us a certain way and there is a wide belief that God ultimately called this practice off.  I would prefer to have never been circumcised and I am sorry I had it done to all but one of my own sons, it is a terrible thing to have done.  So I guess it all comes down to ancient archaic dangerous (over 100 babies die from circumcision in the US every year) fundamentalist behaviors like this, I would prefer the practice didn't exist and I wouldn't mind if it were made illegal. 

Tim King is Cxxxx

Editor: Hey you can't write that kind of stuff here, and besides, this article is not written by me.