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by Dr. Paul D. Tinari Ph.D. 

"A neurologist who saw the results to postulated that the data indicated that circumcision affected most intensely the portions of the victim's brain associated with reasoning, perception and emotions. Follow up tests on the infant one day, one week and one month after the surgery indicated that the child's brain never returned to its baseline configuration. In other words, the evidence generated by this research indicated that the brain of the circumcised infant was permanently changed by the surgery."  READ MORE
 
You may be suprised but....

There is no medical group, national or international, that supports circumcision.  Fewer and fewer boys are being circumcised today.  Before I started my studies, I probably would have circumcised a son if I had had one.  I would have thought my son would look too “different” and I would have thought an uncircumcised penis would be difficult to care for.  Now I know different.  Please research this important decision thoroughly.  Your son is depending on you.

Research Articles against Circumcision

Information from the American Academy of Pediatrics on Circumcision
 

The Cost of the Cut: Reflections on Infant Circumcision

By Jeanne Denney

I remember the day after my first child was born. A well-known “OB to the Stars” in New York City who delivered my son came in to see what we wanted to do about circumcision. “This is completely up to you,” she said with authority. “But it only takes a minute and he won’t remember a thing. I do it myself. It is absolutely not a big deal.” I trusted her judgment in a New York nanosecond as I had trusted her throughout the labor. She was beyond confident. I, on the other hand, was 27 years old and quite without confidence.  READ MORE
 
Anatomy of a Circumcision
This is a great article from New York Magazine that describes how the procedure is performed.  At the end of the article, you can click on the information for and against the procedure, if you want to learn more about the argument on each side.  READ THE ARTICLE
 


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