Man jailed for illegally circumcising young boys

Bet he feels a right dick now.

Personally, I wonder where they got the tip off...

A real schmuck...

And jailed he should be!

When I was circumsised, I had the skin tanned and made a nice belt out of it....and a brief case. I am still trying to decide what to make with the rest. Maybe a nice leather sofa.

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A sofa? Are you a man or a whale, Swedesmith? :-)

2 months? what fail

@Swedesmith

From the old joke about two men urinating over the side of a bridge . . . you would be the guy with the comeback, 'Yeah, and it's deep,too.'

@Swedesmith After my circumsision I had the foreskin made into a nice wallet but every time a Swedish blond walks by it turns into a suitcase!

@Swedesmith When you were cut they threw away the wrong bit.

Why is it when they perform this barbaric act on boys it's called circumcision, but when they perform this equally barbaric act on girls it's called body mutilation?

@truthordare, you can hardly compare these two acts. I, personally, wish i wasnt circumcised. I am glad the trend of automatically doing it at birth is beginning to reverse. That being said, the way females are "circumcised" is barbaric. Typically no anesthesia is used, and rusty tools or even broken glass is used to cut off the clitoris. Then the labias are sewn together with only a hole large enough for urine to drain out. That coupled with the fact that the girls are typically old enough to remember the procedure makes female "circumcision" much more barbaric.

I understand he provided his services for free. He worked just for the tips!

Poor boys.

They cannot opt to be un-circumcised

I hope that their illegal circumcisions are still valid... since they will have to live with it the rest of their lives

@Cornelius define "valid".

@Mkgvtired: when you compare tribal with tribal, surgical with surgical, they're not so different. The first 6 boys have died of circumcision this season in Eastern Cape Province alone. 91 last year. Many others lost their penis. How many in all of Africa? Surgical sterile FGC was legal in the developed world until a few years ago. Comparisons are odious. Both are human rights violations. Both must end. Forgotten and unremembered crimes are still crimes, or what would be the matter with drug-rape?

Sweden legitimizes this unethical and harmful act of foreskin removal by granting licenses to people to perform it. The foreskin is functional and contributes to sexual enjoyment for both partners. A man has a right to his full sexuality and his body should not be interfered with simply for "cultural reasons".

Under what principle do we consider it acceptable to perform unnecessary surgery on children who cannot give consent? If this is acceptable, what other forms of surgery or body modification may we also perform on children simply because we are their parents? Can we give them tatoos? Remove other parts of their body, like their earlobes or nipples? Can we give them piercings? Why is it only OK to remove penis parts but nothing else?

Unnecessary surgery on a non-consenting minor is by definition unethical and also illegal. The government should not be complicit in allowing this inhumane and damaging procedure to continue.

I'm not surprised that the law doesn't work. The crime is committed against a child too young to possibly speak out about it, and is done with the parents' explicit permission. I'm sure doctors (or even non-licenced individuals) frequently get away with it, as they do in the USA.

I stand corrected. I was unaware that male circumcision was popular in Africa except by trained doctors in an effort to prevent the spread of STDs. The first I have heard about male circumcision (adult) in Africa was by Western doctors because of the reduced risk of contracting HIV. If you have any information on this practice please post, I would be interested in reading it.

They should castrate this person & jail the parents that allowed him to mutilate their children. Marvellous that animals have more rights than babies, who are not allowed to choose whether or not they can have a complete donger.

Better he be held indefinitely in a mental health facility, until a committee feels he is sane again.

PS-This is the worst website I've seen in ten years for pop-up ads and the like:-(

@mkvglived: This server won't let me send a lot of links, but here's a typical one: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/23/world/la-fg-africa-circumcision-20100823

What's the fuss about? Male circumcision isnt actually harmful, in fact men are less likely to get get infections, plus from a female point of view it looks better. But that doesnt detract from the fact he didnt have a licence and thats the point in question, he didnt not operate within the confindes of Swedish law, which is unacceptable.

By the way circumcision should be done shortly after birth (8 days to be exact, but only if the baby is healthy for those of the Jewish faith) and certainly not when a child is circa. 9 years old! All Jewish boys are circumcised and I dont think its ever harmed them :)

Female circumcision is quite different and one can not compare the two, look at the fatality rates of women who undergo this barbarick act!

* The removal of the tip of the clitoris;

* Total removal of the clitoris and surrounding labia;

* The removal of the clitoris and labia and the sewing up of the vagina, leaving only a small opening for urine and menstrual blood - a process known as infibulation.

So drastic is the mutilation involved in the latter operation that young brides have to be cut open to allow penetration on their wedding night and are customarily sewn up afterwards.

Long-term consequences can include:

* recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections;

* cysts;

* infertility;

* an increased risk of childbirth complications and newborn deaths;

* the need for later surgeries. For example, the FGM procedure that seals or narrows a vaginal opening (type 3 above) needs to be cut open later to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth. Sometimes it is stitched again several times, including after childbirth, hence the woman goes through repeated opening and closing procedures, further increasing and repeated both immediate and long-term risks.

So boys, having your "pully" snipped isnt too bad really, and women actually prefer the look of it, could you say the same about a women who has been mutilated down stairs?

you might also add that women with Jewish partners were less likely to suffer from cancer in their nether regions. I found women being fascinated by my circumcised manhood, at least in countries where circumcison was not practised. anyway, it is easier for a man to hold on much better when circumcised. there is no flabby foreskin to wobble into an ejaculation.

healthy dick's forever!!

Hi guys, I have found a very informative website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people

This is for those who are new to scandinavia

@RubyRed

A survey this year in the USA showed that 1 in 11,000 boys who undergo the operation actually die from complications (Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies Volume 4, Number 1 / Spring 2010, P78-90)

I wouldn't call that 'actually harmless' by any sense of the words.

http://www.mensstudies.com/content/b64n267w47m333x0/?p=a38e38de4cf04bc989b34948eef664ff&pi=5

Ruby Red: so quick to applaud the male procedure but condemn the female.

"Women prefer the look of it"...especially women conditioned to accept the mutilation as "normal"...such is still the case in sexually repressed societies like the USA. Most women around the world prefer men to be intact and unedited by doctors when they are too young to have any say in the matter.

"Could you say the same about a women who has been mutilated down stairs?" Much the same is in fact said in places where women are cut. In the west labia reduction surgery is becoming popular among women for cosmetic reasons....stupid but nevertheless not imposed by someone else.

Infant circumcision is not recommended by any medical organization in the world.

To support gender equality and to learn the dangers of circumcision, please visit www.mgmbill.org and www.circumstitions.com or check out "The Whole Network" or "peaceful parenting" on Facebook.