Category: Core values

BMA 2022

They may be big but we are still complaining. Circumcision without consent is an assault. One comment we recieved was…

“You don’t give up do you”

A woman came over and said she had circumcised her son because she was married to a Ghanain and she would not do it  now. A passer by hissed…

“Circumcised and proud”

As always we are there to point out that it is the lack of choice and the irreversible losses associated with circumcision that we are against. All we want is the same medical ethics that would be applied to any other non-therapeutic procedure. If it can wait then it should wait.

Unnecessary NHS circumcisions

At MDC we have been highlighting the waste and suffering caused by non-therapeutic circumcisions ever since we were founded. Good to see this article in the Mail on Sunday  (27/02/2022) reporting the growing concern in the medical community at the number of unnecessary circumcisions that are performed.

Teaching proper care of the intact penis, cleaning it using water from the base to the tip, minimising the use of soap (no complex bubble baths etc.) and only the boy himself should ever attempt to retract his foreskin. Those three simple measures could save a lot of problems.
Our figure of £6 million on the placard  in the picture is from before 2012 when this protest was staged out side the British Medical Association’s meeting in Bournemouth. Thanks to the doctors involved and thanks to The Mail for drawing attention to the waste of resources and the harm caused by unnecessary circumcisions. 

Excellent sites for intact penis care Your Whole Baby and 15Square .

Why?

This site exists to dispel the myth that men do not mind being circumcised. Some men seem not to mind and others mind a great deal.

Men circumcised as children (and therefore without their consent) often complain about their inappropriate treatment.

Non-therapeutic genital cutting has significant physical and psychological consequences and has no proven benefits. Men who complain about having had their foreskins amputated without their informed consent are consistently  treated as having something wrong with them rather than being treated as having had something wrong done to them.

Do complain to your doctors, policy makers and leaders. We should not be inhibited about making our voices heard and we owe it to future generations to bring an end to these assaults on children.