Sub-continental circumcision row!

This is a crazy world indeed. We are fighting a war in Afghanistan, euphemistically called a campaign by the government, and we are told categorically that the enemy is a terrorist organisation hell bent on exporting its beastliness to the streets of London and other western capitals.

Unfortunately, the people we are trying to help by extending democracy and civilisation as we know it do not know who the enemy is. Much debate is currently taking place on Pakistani internet forums about who is exactly who in terrorist circles. It has been "documented" that some Taliban fighters were not Muslims but Indians or other such. Uncircumcised males have been spotted in the numbers of corpses. So that concludes the Indians are up to their tricks. But hold on a minute, some people, like the Times of India are keen to point out this is not proof at all. "Pak blame fails Waziristan circumcision test!" trumpets this article. I like the term "Pak". Try using that in the Times of London! Many Waziris are so poor they can't afford to travel to a hospital or get a barber (ouch!) to do the operation for their boys.

So we don't really know who is who unless we get these Taliban types to drop their trousers! Maybe this is what General Stanley McChrystal should be doing if he wants to succeed in turning away from a "likely result in failure"?

http://www.pakdef.info/forum/showthread.php?t=9570&page=77

http://forum.pakistanidefence.com/index.php?showtopic=83146

Human Foreskins are Big Business for Cosmetics

I knew the cosmetic industry had a few skeletons in its cupboards, but this one really gets me angry. Whilst President Obama tries to get his health care reforms through Congress, the medical establishment is still racketeering. Two totally unnecessary surgical procedures are routinely carried out - circumcisions and hysterectomies - so that doctors can pocket extra dollars. Now I find there is a bizarre trade going on - a multi-million dollar rip-off!

Newborn male babies are genitally mutilated by eager surgeons who use the harvested foreskins to sell to eager cosmetic companies. Until just now I had no idea that this trade was going on. Not only is it bizarre, but it is quite evil. To decide in a blatant manner that a newborn should treated as a potential dollar earner is disgusting. Only in America? Probably not. But I hope Obama puts a stop to this racket.

SkinMedica is one company that has used so-called foreskin fibroblasts in their cosmetics. I wonder if the women who purchase these creams and potions know what they are smearing on their faces? It's amazing!

I read this article (which is now over 2 years old) and it is very illuminating. Here's another article from The East African, just last week.

Babies deserve better. At the most defenceless stage of life, some are just seen as money makers - for greedy adults.

DIY circumcision man rushed to hospital!

There are some crazy people in this world and there never ceases to be new recruits to the ranks of the crazies. A young man was rushed to hospital after attempting delicate surgery on his penis using a pair of nail clippers. Can you imagine the pain. Apparently he was intoxicated. He'd need to be! One wonders what possessed him to think that such self-mutilation was a necesary thing.

The man was kept in the hospital for further observation. For his brain rather than his penis, I assume.

Another attack on God's handiwork!

Quite rightly some of the US medical fraternity are being called "obsessed" with their desire to mutilate baby boys in the name of supposed hygiene and disease control. Americans have been fed the line that circumcision is good for their newborns. The very fact that the notion was introduced to Victorian society by a medic of dubious qualities goes by the board. John Harvey Kellogg gave us cornflakes and his beliefs in circumcision. Like a lot of stiff-necked sorts he had a penchant for meddling in other peoples' lives.

He reckoned there were "excesses" in sexual behaviour, so taking a knife to a newborn's genitals was his way of stopping the "insanity of masturbation" in later life. The logic of this devilment is lost on me. Pity the man is not around to do a survey on circumcised masturbators! Of course, the whole thing is utter hogwash.

Now the quackery of the US medical establishment is rearing its ugly head again. Dr Judith Wasserheit of University of Washington demures and says, "All providers who care for pregnant women and infants have a responsibility to assure that mothers and fathers know that circumcision could help protect their sons". And provide a lucrative source of income to the scalpel weilders!

What this medical meddler does not say is that promiscuity causes sexually transmitted diseases. And if you told her that she and her pro-cutting friends could make not a dime from the operation, she'd shut up like a clam!

Cereal abuser?

Following on from my last post, I was surfing around concerning fundamental Christians and I alighted upon the entry in Wikipedia of John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes. One thing I always knew about Kellogg was that he came from Battle Creek, Michigan. This was because idle reading at the breakfast table told me so as it was on the carton. Idle reading has now got me thinking about Kellogg himself.

He was not just a cereal maker but a man who felt obliged to look after the moral degredation of others as he saw it. As a doctor he was more taken by the bowels and the sexual organs than mere corn flakes alone. In fact I would say that he was a tad flaky all round. He was a Seventh Day Adventist (which is how I came upon Kellogg in the surfing) but he took anything they said a step or two further.

He seemed to think that eating well and aiding your digestion kept sexual stimulation at bay. He should have met Dr Ruth! "Vat iss it viv you? You are so unhealthily obsessed, you are!" She'd have run rings round him. The medical Dr.Kellogg was obsessed. He was an advocate of sexual abstinence. He was a crusader against "self-abuse". He wrote Treatment for Self-Abuse and Its Effects. I wonder how many were traumatised by his stern lectures. He stated "A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment. In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid [phenol] to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement."

Isn't it rich! A man who professed some belief in God purports to cause pain and suffering to God's handiwork. It never occurred to him that God thought all this out and found it to be perfect. Even today, American doctors are following his advice and coining the cash with such operations. And I doubt very much if the circumcised of America have abstained from masturbation!

Kellogg wrote another book entitled Plain Facts for Old and Young which outlined his beliefs. Hardly facts! It is apparent that those who are zealots for a cause are blind to the facts.

Kellogg was a "cereal abuser" of the facts!