Some men carry conscious memories of circumcision. A medical professor wrote to me about his confident recollection of infant circumcision. He said he was aware of having a very sore penis with a collarlike fringe (probably from clamping) which was being cut off by his physician father at home. He recalls lying on his back on some green furniture, feeling no pain from the cutting but objecting strenuously! He was desperately wriggling body and limbs against constraint. He felt encroached upon and endangered though awed that something obviously belonging to him could be cut without the cutting itself hurting. He felt helpless and squalled bitterly. For other infants circumcision is more upsetting than birth itself. A father told me his great surprise when the doctor proceeded to circumcise his baby at delivery. Quiet through the entire birth, this baby cried loudly during circumcision. A Jewish father, reflecting on his boys circumcision on the eighth day, said it was one of the saddest occurrences of his babyhood and that he cried more that afternoon than anytime in his first year. For circumcision in hospitals, babies are strapped onto circumcision boards where they wait cold and frightened, the penis protruding hrough a hole in a sterile towel. Surgery with a clamping device begins by inserting a probe between the foreskin and glans. The probe is moved all around the glans to cut and loosen adhesions, a process called lysis. This is the maximum point of pain and crying. The foreskin does not naturally retract at birth and must be torn and cut back, leaving raw areas subject to urine burns and infection. After lysis, the skin is slit and the clamp applied, the skin pulled through and the excess cut away. -- David B. Chamberlain Ph. D. above excerpt from the article Babies Remember Pain by David B. Chamberlain Ph. D. primal-page/babies.htm The Primal Psychotherapy Page primal-page
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