The Perfect Design
"So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good." -- Genesis 1:27, 31
"For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well." -- Psalm 139:13-14
"But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased." -- 1 Corinthians 12:18
"Natural selection will never produce in a being anything injurious to itself, for natural selection acts solely by and for the good of each. No organ will be formed, as Paley has remarked, for the purpose of causing pain or for doing an injury to its possessor." -- Charles Darwin
What does this have to do with gardening? Mother Nature repeats Herself, and as I work in the garden, I see many ways in which She similarly creates and protects Her creation and interference destroys Her perfect design. Even most non-gardeners realize natural and organic products are superior to those altered or polluted by man (in reality, natural is the standard and less is inferior). To believe in the wonders of the Universe or the miracle of life, yet at the same time think every human male is born "defective" or that the foreskin is "useless" does not make sense. To think that the foreskin can be amputated without negative consequences is ignorant.
The Beautiful Rosebud
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Nature reveals Its creation only when the time is right.
The Protective Seed Hull
The Emerging Hosta
The protective sheaths of emerging lily of the valley, baptisia and Solomon's seal. One can observe this again and again throughout Nature. If plants and animals are designed or evolved so perfectly, why would the human male be any less? |
Nature and Hygiene
Females produce smegma, too, yet despite all the products sold to "prevent odor," few advocate genital cutting to promote female hygiene. Though it is more difficult for a female to get to all of her folds and crevices than a male to retract his foreskin, she is entrusted to do so. People should not insult their sons by assuming they will grow up to be incompetent slobs. Of course, any part from teeth to toes are "easier to clean" if removed, but to quote Craig Ferguson, who is intact, "You can have this chopped off or you can wash it ... That's a tough choice there, doctor." Amputation is not hygiene and everyone needs to wash, cut or not.
Natural vs. Circumcised
Planting the Seeds of Change
It is only through questioning that we can see where there is fallacy in long held beliefs and create change. When it comes to circumcision, frequently questions and change are met by mockery and anger. The person who says, "Baby boys are born perfect. Love them enough to keep them that way." is considered crazy, penis obsessed, and even perverted while the person who says, "Baby boys are born ugly, dirty and unhealthy. You should amputate the most sensitive part of their manhood before they can refuse." is considered normal, sane and their motives are never questioned. How backwards is that?! Our boys and men deserve better! I ask that you challenge any beliefs you may hold regarding circumcision with the following questions.
- The same "health benefits" and ridiculous excuses are given to promote both male and female circumcision. Insurance companies even covered female circumcision in the U.S. until the 1970s. Since 1997, all forms of female circumcision performed on a minor have been banned by U.S. law; this includes even a symbolic pinprick of the clitoral hood (female foreskin) for religious reasons. The 14th Amendment grants equal protection, so why do males not receive it?
- For what other normal, healthy body part would we think amputation was a parental right for any reason?
- What other unnecessary cosmetic surgery, trauma or abuse would we allow upon a child because he could not say "no" and "won't remember" the event?
- Would we consider it acceptable to amputate the foreskin of an adult without his consent?
- Why does the adult that the circumcised child will grow into not deserve the same right to his foreskin?
- Why do anatomy books and charts in the U.S. show the penis sans foreskin as though that is the natural state?
- Why are U.S. doctors and nurses taught to amputate the foreskin rather than of its functions and how to preserve it?
- For what other body part is amputation promoted as "cleaner," "preventative medicine" or a "cure" rather than washing and treating as needed?
- We do not refer to other body parts as "unamputated" (e.g. unmastectomized, undecapitated), so why is a man with his whole penis referred to as "uncircumcised," as though a surgically altered penis is natural?
- What other amputation, especially upon a helpless child, are "jokes" not only acceptable, but common about?
- What other body part would it be acceptable to ridicule or scorn a person for having?
- Why are the feelings of men who feel violated by circumcision swept aside rather than acknowledged as they would be for any other amputation, especially if performed needlessly without the owner's permission?
- If a society has a perverted view of a normal, healthy body part, is it not the society that needs to be changed rather than forcibly amputating the body part from the society's most vulnerable members?
- Why so many double standards, all against the human male foreskin?
Basic Human Rights
"When You Know Better,
You Do Better."
-- Maya Angelou
Circumcision ...
The more you know,
the more you're against it!
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
Beyond the Bris
Bonobo3D
Boys Deserve Better
Catholics Against Circumcision
CIRCINFO
CircLeaks
Circumcision Harm
Circumcision Information and Resource Pages
Circumcision Resource Center
Circumcision Wisdom
Circumstitions
Doctors Opposing Circumcision
DrMomma - Peaceful Parenting
End Routine Infant Circumcision
Global Survey of Circumcision Harm
In Memory of the Sexually Mutilated Child
Intact America
Intact Network
Intact News
Intactivist Pages
Internation Coalition for Genital Integrity
Involuntary Foreskinectomy Awareness
Jewish Circumcision Resource Center
Jews Against Circumcision
Lucky Stiff
Men Do Complain
Mothers Against Circumcision
MGM Bill
Moralogous
New Foreskin (foreskin restoration)
National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
NOCIRC-PA
National Organization of Restoring Men
NORM: New England (NSFW)
National Organization to Halt Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males
Not Just Skin
Nurses for the Rights of the Child
Question Circumcision
Rape of Innocence
Restoring Foreskin
Restoring Tally
Saving Babies
Saving Sons
Secret Penis
Sex As Nature Intended It
SICSOCIETY
TLC Tugger (foreskin restoration)
The Whole Network