• Your son's foreskin is doing its job, which is protecting the glans (the head of the penis) and urethral meatus (urinary opening) from irritants. (intactamerica.org)
  • Paradoxically, by recommending a steroid cream and urging your son to try to retract the foreskin, the pediatrician made your son's condition worse. (intactamerica.org)
  • Unfortunately, your pediatrician failed to realize that your son's problem is not a tight foreskin, but rather a yeast infection that is irritating the foreskin. (intactamerica.org)
  • In fact, when Oz's recommendations are taken to heart, and parents view their son's foreskin as dirty and in need of cleaning, THAT, Winckler says, is when problems arise. (savingsons.org)
  • They mention it as part of your older son's body care, once the foreskin has already retracted. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • If someone (as a well-meaning parent) or any care provider or medical personnel has pulled back their son's foreskin THIS IS "forced retraction" no matter how far it was retracted. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • She takes a flint and cuts off her son's foreskin. (jwa.org)
  • So your doctor has told you that not enough foreskin was removed during your son's circumcision. (thewholenetwork.org)
  • My son's foreskin is "growing back", covering the head of the penis, stuck, adhered. (thewholenetwork.org)
  • In English, that means that we asked our friends to witness a bearded stranger removing the foreskin from our son's penis. (killingthebuddha.com)
  • The two men appear worlds apart when it comes to their view of the foreskin -- Oz pointing out how "nasty" he sees the foreskin becoming, how much "cleaning" it needs, and if that's not enough to make you run to the nearest surgeon to have yours removed -- you may just have to anyway, because, according to Oz, it could strangle your penis! (savingsons.org)
  • Winckler reminds us the foreskin is an effective, self-sustaining organ that serves to protect and preserve the penis (or clitoris). (savingsons.org)
  • This fictitious, scary thing that Oz warns men of -- when the foreskin actually tries to strangle the life right out of your penis? (savingsons.org)
  • During the surgery, the penis is straightened and the opening is corrected using tissue grafts from the foreskin. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A doctor then tightens a clamp around the tip of the baby's penis, squeezing the foreskin up and over. (cirp.org)
  • Gently tugging is not the same as retracting…Gently tugging/sliding back of the foreskin allows for cleansing of the penis and foreskin and removal of smegma. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • Foreskins could not be simply snipped off because the infant foreskin is securely attached to the glans of the penis. (hobomama.com)
  • A naturally intact boy's foreskin is fused to the head of the penis the same way your fingernail is fused to your finger. (thewholenetwork.org)
  • Male circumcision is an ancient tradition involving the removal of a portion of the foreskin from the penis. (cphpost.dk)
  • 5. The foreskin represents 50% to 80% of the skin system of the penis depending on the length of the penile shaft. (viafin-atlas.com)
  • 6. The highly specialized foreskin tissue normally covers the glans of the penis and protects it from abrasion, drying, callousing, and contaminants of all kinds. (viafin-atlas.com)
  • His foreskin is not developed under the penis and is attached with the scrotum. (ndtv.com)
  • An uncircumcised little boy's penis doesn't require any extra care-just keep it clean and be sure not to push back the foreskin. (pnmag.com)
  • If your son was circumcised, you'll need to apply pure petroleum jelly to the area at each diaper change and most doctors recommend wrapping the penis in gauze as well, until it begins to heal. (pnmag.com)
  • As research has shown, as long as the foreskin is retracted during bathing, uncircumcised males are no more likely than circumcised males to develop problems like inflammation, phimosis (a condition where the foreskin cannot be fully retracted from the head of the penis), or adhesions. (bloggingwv.com)
  • Male circumcision is the surgical removal of some or all of the foreskin (or prepuce) from the penis.1 Medically attended circumcisions performed by health care professionals are voluntary, elective procedures that are preceded by an informed consent process. (cdc.gov)
  • A limited number of cross-sectional and case-control transmission from the penis to the cervix was 4.9/100 per- studies have evaluated genotype-specifi c HPV concor- son-months, which was substantially lower than that from dance in male-female couples ( 3-7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Phimosis is defined as the inability of the prepuce (foreskin) to be retracted behind the glans penis in uncircumcised males. (medscape.com)
  • When you take the religion out of circumcision, and really look at what the procedure actually involves, it is easy to see why more and more people are choosing to leave their sons intact. (drmomma.org)
  • Foreskin Man is a comic book created by Matthew Hess to protest against circumcision. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the first issue, Hastwick comes up with the alter ego of Foreskin Man to fight against practitioners of circumcision and "the pro-circumcision lobby," whom he feels have gained too much power through "all of the well connected doctors and lawyers. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the fourth issue, he travels to Turkey to prevent the teenage son of a belly dancer from receiving an Islamic circumcision. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to being denounced by defenders of circumcision, Foreskin Man was also criticized by activists against the practice. (wikipedia.org)
  • Male circumcision is a deeply personal decision you make for yourself or your son. (medicinenet.com)
  • If you are planning a circumcision for your son to cure phimosis, you should wait until age 5. (medicinenet.com)
  • While many doctors today either share Richardson's attitude, or say that circumcision is not medically called for, the majority of parents in Maine and nationally still opt to have their sons snipped. (cirp.org)
  • After all, they argued, circumcision involves a grave operation in which the "foreskin is amputated. (dw.com)
  • The new law grants parents the right to authorize the circumcision of their son by a trained practitioner. (dw.com)
  • As I understand it, female circumcision in most cases involves cutting off not just the clitoral hood (analogous to the foreskin), but also the clitoris, and/or the labia. (econlib.org)
  • My husband's rationale for supporting the circumcision of our future sons was based on the notion of matching penises. (hobomama.com)
  • Knowing what we now know about the complications of high and tight circumcisions, many doctors today are doing what is called a "loose circumcision", where more of the foreskin is left behind for the child to grow into. (thewholenetwork.org)
  • Dr. Brian Morris, author of In Favour of Circumcision , presents the possible-but-improvable assertion that foreskins protected our ancestors' members from "long grass and the like when humans wore no clothes. (killingthebuddha.com)
  • That she "cut off" feelings toward her son by observing his circumcision suggests that her son may have responded similarly toward her by experiencing his circumcision. (circumcision.org)
  • One common reason that parents give for circumcision is that they want their son to "match" his father or his older brothers. (modernalternativemama.com)
  • We were surprised by the normally levelheaded Krista Bremer's misleading attempt to justify her husband Ismail's circumcision of their son ("The First Cut," February 2008). (arclaw.org)
  • While I agree that physicians should *never* ask if we want our baby's genitals amputated (be they girls or boys), women do have a prepuce, a 'foreskin' - the clitoral hood - and most of these mothers who are asked in the U.S. have theirs intact as well. (savingsons.org)
  • Thank you for including a link to the actual AAP statement which clearly states that parents should never be pulling back or cleaning between the prepuce ('foreskin' or 'hood') and the glans ('head') of their infant's genitals. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • Nope, they don't mention "tugging" a baby's foreskin to wash beneath it. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • After the procedure, all of the baby's foreskin was gone and the glans fully exposed, leaving an end result that looked very much like a circumcised adult. (thewholenetwork.org)
  • 1 Samuel 18:25 Saul replied, "Say to David, 'The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • Saul replied, to David, king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • New Living Translation he told them, "Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! (biblehub.com)
  • Then Saul replied, "Say this to David: 'The king desires no other bride-price except a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • With respect to Saul's daughter, Michal, the king sees a way to use her affection for David as a means to dispose of him: He offers the girl in marriage but requires his planned son-in-law to pay one hundred Philistine foreskins as a bridal price. (touchstonemag.com)
  • two hundred Philistine foreskins! (touchstonemag.com)
  • He simply changed the Philistine foreskins into Philistine heads. (touchstonemag.com)
  • Among other ailments, Sayre discussed patients whose foreskins were tightened and could not retract, a condition known as phimosis. (iranian.com)
  • 11 You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. (oremus.org)
  • 11 You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you. (bible.com)
  • 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. (biblehub.com)
  • 23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him. (biblehub.com)
  • 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. (biblehub.com)
  • 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. (biblehub.com)
  • and a circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. (churchofjesuschrist.org)
  • 14 And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant. (ellopos.net)
  • Stop all the "cleaning" that Oz tells parents they must do, and you simply will not have the issues that arise only in a forcibly retracting, foreskin-meddling, North American culture. (savingsons.org)
  • Why forcibly mark your son with your own religion when the son may turn out to be as freethinking as his father and may complete Dad's process of moving away from Islam? (arclaw.org)
  • The comic centers around Foreskin Man, a superhero who saves babies from being circumcised and fights their would-be circumcisers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hess also published Foreskin Man, a comic about a superhero who fights circumcisers and saves babies from them. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's normal for the foreskin not to retract in babies . (medicinenet.com)
  • In the United States, amputating babies' foreskins became routine after World War II, after many prospective soldiers flunked physicals and interest in public health techniques grew. (cirp.org)
  • He recognizes the normalcy of the foreskin - after all, all mammals on earth are born with a foreskin (the 'clitoral hood' on female mammals). (savingsons.org)
  • and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. (oremus.org)
  • 23 On that very day Abraham took his son, Ishmael, and every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. (bible.com)
  • 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, 25 and Ishmael, his son, was thirteen. (bible.com)
  • 26 Both Abraham and his son, Ishmael, were circumcised on that same day, 27 along with all the other men and boys of the household, whether they were born there or bought as servants. (bible.com)
  • 26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. (biblehub.com)
  • 26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. (churchofjesuschrist.org)
  • It was only when I was reading Michael Chabon's latest, Manhood for Amateurs , that I saw the face of evil: A father who admitted that he had no good reason to circumcise his sons, but did it anyway. (econlib.org)
  • Many Jews and Muslims circumcise their sons while they are quite young, and 72 percent of the Danes surveyed said that the procedure should only be made available to a boy once he turns 18 and can decide for himself. (cphpost.dk)
  • Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • Then Saul said, "Thus you shall say to David: 'The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • Saul then said, "This is what you shall say to David: 'The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • And Saul said, Thus shall ye speak to David, The king wants no gift but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the kings enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • In the Greek version, David simply produces the one hundred foreskins, but the Hebrew text is more interesting and ironical: David decides to show Saul a thing or two by producing-and counting them out! (touchstonemag.com)
  • With respect to Saul's son, Jonathan, the king observes with distress that he become deeply attached to David, much impressed with the latter's handling of Goliath. (touchstonemag.com)
  • 18 But David replied to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should become the king's son-in-law? (biblegateway.com)
  • So Saul said to David, "You can still become my son-in-law, even today, with the second one. (biblegateway.com)
  • But David said, "Is it a light thing to you becoming the king's son-in-law, considering that I am a poor man and of little account? (biblegateway.com)
  • 25 Then Saul said, "Thus you will say to David, 'The king desires no bridal dowry except 100 foreskins of the Philistines-to take vengeance on the king's enemies. (biblegateway.com)
  • 26 When his courtiers told David these words, the word seemed right in David's eyes to become the king's son-in-law. (biblegateway.com)
  • Then David brought their foreskins and gave them in full number to the king-to become the king's son-in-law. (biblegateway.com)
  • This meant infants had their foreskins ripped off. (hobomama.com)
  • In 1949, Douglas Gairdner showed that only 4% of infants had a fully retractable foreskin at birth but that 90% did by age 3 years. (medscape.com)
  • The doctor said his foreskin is too tight and recommended a steroid cream, suggesting we use it three times a day and that my son should try to gently pull his foreskin back. (intactamerica.org)
  • The foreskin cannot be pulled back to uncover the glans. (medicinenet.com)
  • If he is uncircumcised, it is important to gently tug back his foreskin and cleanse thoroughly. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • Zipporah is the heroine of a bizarre incident that takes place as Moses heads back to Egypt with his wife and sons ( Exod 4:20 ). (jwa.org)
  • 20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to the land of Egypt. (bible.com)
  • Others believe that the soul of the individual who your son is named after will be brought back to this earth with the burial of the foreskin. (avoiceformen.com)
  • After swimming, he should shower to remove the chlorine from his body and then gently wipe away the protective cream from his foreskin. (intactamerica.org)
  • God took care of Saul's sons by having the Philistines kill them. (blogspot.com)
  • I'm sure we girls snickered behind our hands as we learned that smegma was what those dirty uncircumcised boys suffered with when they didn't clean under their foreskins. (hobomama.com)
  • For the first time I understood that my presumptions about foreskins, particularly the smegma issues, were based on myths. (hobomama.com)
  • The King does not desire a marriage dowry, except for two hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of his enemies. (biblehub.com)
  • Samuel's ghost told Saul that tomorrow God would kill Saul and his sons by delivering the Israelite army into the hands of the Philistines. (blogspot.com)
  • Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore … the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me [i.e., you and your sons will be dead]: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. (blogspot.com)
  • God kills Saul, his sons, and his men for not killing all the Amalekites (or was it for not inquiring of the Lord? (blogspot.com)
  • So that left Saul and his sons. (blogspot.com)
  • For decades, parents in the U.S. have been circumcising their infant sons in the name of "cleanliness. (bloggingwv.com)
  • After the boy's sore genitals were pointed out by his nanny, Sayre removed the foreskin. (iranian.com)
  • Winckler takes a much more foreskin-friendly approach to the human genitals. (savingsons.org)
  • I told him that any of our future sons should have a say in any non-medically necessary permanent alteration of their genitals. (hobomama.com)
  • My son is 9 months old and his genitals don't apper to be normal. (ndtv.com)
  • Foreskin Man was created by Matthew Hess, the author of a proposed bill to ban medically unnecessary circumcisions of minors, during a 2010-2011 campaign to ban this procedure in San Francisco. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the comic, which currently has seven issues, superhero Foreskin Man battles enemies and saves boys from circumcisions in a variety of situations including hospital circumcisions, religious circumcisions, and tribal circumcisions. (wikipedia.org)
  • My son is 8 years old. (intactamerica.org)
  • Men have been circumcised for thousands of years, yet our thinking about the foreskin seems as muddled as ever. (iranian.com)
  • When Baker's son was born 11 years ago, the foreskin was left intact. (cirp.org)
  • and this epithet is very appropriate here, when the Lord was about to give out a promise of a son to Abram and Sarai, so much stricken in years. (christianity.com)
  • After several years, Pickard-Ginsburg says she can still feel "an element of detachment" toward her son. (circumcision.org)
  • Contemporary work demonstrates that only 1% of males aged 17 years still have an unretractable foreskin. (medscape.com)
  • 12 And the child of eight days [old] shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and [the servant] born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed. (ellopos.net)
  • Right now, in America, it is so common that foreskins are somewhat rare, and may become more so. (iranian.com)
  • Winckler suggests we instead learn proper intact care: i.e. keep your hands OFF the foreskin if it belongs to anyone other than you. (savingsons.org)
  • I even found a few Jewish moms there who had kept their sons intact. (drmomma.org)
  • The foreskin should be kept intact for use in later surgical repair. (medlineplus.gov)
  • None of my friends' intact sons have had a problem with it, either. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • When I was pregnant with our son, Baby E, there were screaming matches because I wanted to keep my boy intact. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • Contrary to Bremer's suggestion, her son, having lost his foreskin through no fault of his own, is by definition no longer intact. (arclaw.org)
  • The story of Ismail, who rejected virtually all other trappings of his religion, nevertheless insisting on cutting his newborn son, raises the question why he retained this "custom" while rejecting all others? (arclaw.org)
  • In biblical times, mothers were responsible for circumcising their newborn sons, with mohels gradually taking over. (medscape.com)
  • They proposed that parents should have to wait until their son is 14 so he can give informed consent for the procedure. (dw.com)
  • He reasoned that our future son would never remember the procedure. (hobomama.com)
  • He said our future son would thank us for the procedure. (hobomama.com)
  • 25 But Moses' wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and circumcised her son. (bible.com)
  • am not I better to thee than ten sons? (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son of her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him. (ellopos.net)
  • After the exodus, her father, the priest of Midian (here called Jethro), comes to visit Moses, bringing Zipporah and her two sons. (jwa.org)
  • She and Moses have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer ( Exod 18:3-4 ). (jwa.org)
  • Moses is told that his father-in-law Jethro is "coming to see you, with your wife and her two sons" (Exod i8:6). (jwa.org)
  • Men experiencing these issues can find some relief from stretching the remaining skin using non-surgical foreskin restoration techniques. (thewholenetwork.org)
  • Oz tells parents time and again they can cut that foreskin right off - get rid of it - it's "a parent's choice" after all. (savingsons.org)
  • For the first time, I let myself really consider not circumcising my son. (drmomma.org)
  • We had been through all of the standard arguments - hygiene, cancer prevention, psychological fitness, the Zero Mostel tradition - the first time around, with our oldest son, and found that they are all debatable at best, while there is plenty of convincing evidence that sexual pleasure is considerably diminished by the absence of a foreskin. (econlib.org)
  • 1:20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The number one reason, according to both doctors and parents, is so son will look like father and his male peers. (cirp.org)
  • Only recently have parents started to second-guess the idea that having a foreskin is unhygienic. (bloggingwv.com)
  • 19 God said, No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. (oremus.org)
  • 19 But God replied, "No-Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. (bible.com)
  • Last December, about a week after my son was born, my wife and I invited a few people over to our house for the bris. (killingthebuddha.com)
  • Or by removing the foreskins of men, boys and newborns, are we actually committing a violation of human rights? (iranian.com)
  • Our feelings was," said Stephen Harris, of Cumberland, a father of a circumcised son, "we'd rather have him look like dad and the boys in the locker room. (cirp.org)
  • Because that's what my sons are: whole boys. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • She then flings the foreskin at "his" feet, declaring that he is h atan damim to her ( Exod 4:26 ). (jwa.org)
  • Zipporah's enigmatic statement has two possible explanations: she flings the foreskin at Moses's feet, saying, "You are a bridegroom of blood to me" (NRSV), or she flings it at God's feet, saying, "You are a blood father-in-law to me. (jwa.org)
  • The average foreskin has over three feet of veins, arteries, and capillaries, 240 feet of nerve fibers, and over 20,000 nerve endings. (viafin-atlas.com)
  • The fifth issue shows him battling against the head of a company that collects foreskins for use in cosmetics and, in the sixth issue, he goes to the Philippines to disrupt a tuli rite. (wikipedia.org)
  • No one deserves to have their head repeatedly slammed into the headboard of the bed while breastfeeding their son. (ecochildsplay.com)