Circumcision is haikProject’s number one issue because of its urgency. Each year unknown number of baby boys die in the U.S. hospitals, others live with botched circumcisions and maimed sexual organ for the rest of their lives because of this unnecessary procedure.

haikProject is dedicated to educate medical professionals and parental community on this harmful medical intervention.

WHAT IS CIRCUMCISION?

Circumcision is the cutting off of the fold of skin that normally covers and protects the glans (head) of the penis. This double layer of skin, the prepuce, is commonly known as the foreskin.

WHY IS THE FORESKIN THERE?

The foreskin comprises as much as half, or more, of the penile skin system and has three known functions: protective, sensory, and sexual. During infancy, the foreskin is attached to the glans and protects it from urine, feces, and abrasions from diapers. Throughout life, the foreskin keeps the glans soft and moist and protects it from trauma and injury. Without this protection, the glans becomes dry, calloused, and desensitized from exposure and chafing. Specialized nerve endings in the foreskin enhance sexual pleasure.
“The foreskin protects the glans throughout life.” American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

WHEN AND WHY DID DOCTORS IN THE U.S. START CIRCUMCISING BABIES?

Doctors in the English-speaking countries started circumcising babies in the mid-1800s “to prevent masturbation,” which was blamed for causing many diseases, including epilepsy, tuberculosis, and insanity. Other reasons have been given since then, but all of them, including the claim that circumcision prevents cancer of the penis, cancer of the cervix, and venereal diseases, have been disproven.

We now know that the foreskin is a normal, sensitive, functional part of the body.

IS CIRCUMCISION PAINFUL?

Yes. Circumcision is extremely painful – and traumatic – for a baby. Just being strapped down is frightening for a baby. The often repeated statement that babies can’t feel pain is not true. Babies are as sensitive to pain as anyone else. Most babies scream frantically when their foreskin is cut off. Some defecate. Some lapse into a coma. The reason some babies don’t cry when they are circumcised, is that they can’t cry because they are in a state of shock. Most babies are circumcised without anesthesia. Anesthetics injected into the penis don’t always work.

DOES CIRCUMCISION HAVE RISKS?

Yes. Like any other surgery, circumcision has risks. They include: excessive bleeding, infection, complications from anesthesia, surgical mistakes, including loss of glans and loss of entire penis, and in rare cases – death.
Many circumcised males suffer from: extensive scarring, skin tags and skin bridges, tearing and bleeding at the scar site, curvature of the penis, tight, painful erections, difficulty ejaculating, impotence, feelings of having been violated, feelings of having been mutilated.
All circumcised males lose some or most of the sensitivity in their glans and all of the sensitivity in their foreskin.

IS CIRCUMCISION HARMFUL?

Circumcision amputates approximately 50% of the heavily innervated tissue of the penis that is a specific erogenous zone. Circumcision creates an abnormal physical appearance with disfiguring scar encircling the shaft and the glans penis permanently exposed to drying, abrasion, and mechanical injury.

PARENTS HAVE NEW CONCERNS

More and more parents – including Jewish & Muslim parents – are questioning the wisdom of subjecting their baby to the pain and risks of circumcision and its life-long consequences. Today parents are wondering if they have the right to consent to the irreversible amputation of a healthy, normal, sensitive, functional part of their baby’s penis – an amputation that experts regard not just as unnecessary, but as contraindicated. More and more parents are becoming truly informed and, as a result, more and more parents are deciding against circumcision and are keeping their baby boys intact.

HOW DO I CARE FOR MY YOUNG SON’S INTACT PENIS?

haikProject’s comprehensive seminars teach how to care for your intact (uncircumcised) son. It is important to know that some doctors may unknowingly harm your natural son’s penis at the well-baby visit, which may cause mild to severe damage – often requiring circumcision. Parents should be vigilant to protect their baby-boy from such iatrogenic (physician caused) trauma.

Many parents who left their boy natural have questions as to how to care for their intact son in early childhood and how to instruct care to adolescents. Some boys are concerned about their tight unretractable foreskin beyond adolescence, which may result in unnecessary circumcision. This is a natural physiological unretractability, easily treated without invasive medical interventions. We have all the medical answers to promote to raise healthy intact boy.
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