The medical community cannot ignore and belittle patients who were circumcised as infants who now speak out as adults that they are horrified this surgery was done to them without their informed consent. Attacking them now is an affront to patient autonomy and medical ethics.
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My father was in the circumstance and had a medically necessary circumcision at age six. It was so horrible that he urged us to have our sons circumcised as infants so they wouldn’t suffer the same. My understanding was that his problem was potentially inherited.
strange that people used to (still?) think infants less traumatized than older children/adults. everything we know about trauma shows opposite is true. people think we "don't remember"-Ron Goldman book Circumcision, the hidden trauma. until 1987 many thought infants felt no pain.
