Swati Prakash

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  • The Abnormal Practice of Male Genital Mutilation in Religion

    The Abnormal Practice of Male Genital Mutilation in Religion

    We have all heard of FGM, Female Genital Mutilation and it is regarded as a terrible practice prevalent in several countries (still legal in a few) against female humans who are very horrifically assaulted at a very young age, cut with sharp razors in thier genitals, at times without anesthesia. This is conducted solely as per religious or traditional beliefs, usually to prevent them from enjoying sexuality.

    But what about the sexual abuse of men who are assualted as very young boys or as infants in a similar abnormal religious tradition? Why is it widespread, and why is it condoned and even promoted by the medical community who profit from it? And how about the billions of innocent baby animals painfully castrated without anesthesia every year in animal farms just for profit before their gruesome slaughter?

    The most important thing we have to undertsand is that human infants or those of other species cannot consent to these operations and therefore performing genitally mutilating procedures on females as well as male babies and children on the sensitive genital parts of their little bodies, or upon animals amounts to rape and sexual assault in addition to torture.

    A report by scientists based in USA states that baby boys can die as a result of having their foreskin removed with approximately 117 babies dying due to circumcision annually in the United States. (Bollinger, Dan. (2010). Lost Boys: An Estimate of U.S. Circumcision-Related Infant Deaths. Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies. 4. 78-90. 10.3149/thy.0401.78.)

    The actual numbers of deaths of babies due to circumcision could be a lot higher. According to a crucial report by CIRP doctors hide the true reason of baby death during or after circumcision. As quoted in their article, ‘Neonatal circumcision has no medical indication and is now considered to be an unnecessary non-therapeutic operation’. The report mentions names of several victims some of whom died due to heart attack after the painful procedure and others due to shock and complications.

    The false belief that babies do not feel pain, and that the procedure is a miror operation is also at the root of this evil baby mutilation practice. An Oxford University MRI study has concluded that babies feel pain much like adults. In a very disturbing report listing many research studies, researchers have found evidence that the high level of pain issued to infants (normally without anesthetic in circumcision of newborn infants) would not be tolerated by older patients.(Williamson, P. & Williamson, M., “Physiologic Stress Reduction by a Local Anesthetic during Newborn Circumcision,” Pediatrics 71 1983). Imagine a little newborn child having to undergo a surgical procedure so painful that even an adult could not have tolerated it?

    Circumcision is a bloody procedure as large proportion of skin around the penis is cut off unnecessarily. Some infants cannot stop crying for many hours to days altogether, have abnormally long spells of sleep and unable to follow normal feeding, bathing or urination routine after the procedure. Newborn circumcisions are normally performed while the child is awake without anesthesia. Imagine going through the gory procedure when you are just born and all you want is your mother’s loving protection and her milk?

    Derogatory practices of FGM Female Genital Mutilation and Breast Ironing are also observed not only in African nations and Middle East but also in the developed countries, often including those such as UK where FGM is banned.

    In a media report a man who committed suicide due to circumcision in adulthood has described how it was acutely painful, led to chronic discomfort and was infact comparable to removal of female clitoris (FGM).

    The justification of this abhorrent and rather painful practice of genital mutilation of male children is similar to that of females – the ideology that masturbation in particular is bad and a tendency towards shaming of the natural human body parts.

    In the Psychology Today magazine Dr. Darcia Narvaez notes that Dr. Kellogg (of Corn Flakes fame) advocated circumcision to stop masturbation without administering an anesthetic, in an attempt to induce a mind-body correlation with punishment.

    Some parents and medical professionals actually condone this practice stating that it improves health, cleanliness and hygeine (by removing the very necessary nature-endowed protective flap on the sex organ). These doctors also boast that circumcision delays male orgasms (although completely unnaturally) when females may not always appreciate it and are married to unwanted partners in many underdeveloped countries. Women at times end up feeling trapped and often raped within their marriage, undergoing the ordeal of sexual intercourse merely because there is no choice given to them and no way of escaping their financial, physical and mental subjugation while circumcised men take their time to climax and unable to please themselves independently via masturbation.

    Genital mutilation of babies and children usually leads to abnormality in sexual behavior. In a leading research study conducted by scientists, it was found that “Masturbatory pleasure decreased after circumcision in 48% of the respondents, and masturbatory difficulty increased after circumcision in 63% of the respondents, while 20% reported a worse sex life after circumcision.” The researchers concluded that circumcision adversely affects sexual function in many men, typically due to a loss of nerve endings. (Kim, D. and Pang, M.‐G. (2007), The effect of male circumcision on sexuality. BJU International, 99: 619-622.)

    Circumcision was purely an invention of the Biblical religions as per Genesis 17:13: “He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.” As usual there were promises by the assumed God to make Abraham an owner of many lands as per the voice and visions believed by followers to be true in blind faith. The racial greed for owning many lands and becoming a predecesor of many nations has been used to justify the process that is clearly child abuse.

    So strong is the corrupt hold of religion over the innocent minds of human beings that billions of people in the world are still under the spell of outdated religions and their unnecessary as well as very harmful traditions.

    As usual the fate of animals is much worse than that of even human babies.

    In a report by a leading charity Free From Harm it is described that using that animal owners perpetrate the crimes of castration, that too without painkillers upon innocent baby animals to make them ‘less aggressive and more marketable’. Sometimes a scalpel is used in farms to simply cut off the entire organ painfully while at times the blood supply is cut off using ringed devices to make the organ break apart from the rest of the body and fall off. In some countries as described in this Arab News report, even stray cats are neutered and spayed without general anesthesia as well which leads to immense pain as their sexual organs are removed wide awake. Cats and dogs are prevented from licking wounds or soothing their body with use of preventive collars and cannot describe thier feelings in human language.

    When it comes to farmed animals such as baby sheep, goats, pigs, calves, chicken and many others, they are not only painfully mutilated by way of castration, beak clipping, teeth clipping, tail docking, hot iron branding, ear tagging to name a few of the evil procedures, but also gas chambered, anally electrocuted and knifed violently. Their life ends after their enduring very painful physical and psychological torture and trauma without any hospitalisation, kindness, affection or rescue operations by any charity, simply because they are considered slaves, owned by the farmers, raped and bred to be horrifically bled to death.

    The fact that even human babies suffer painful mutilations as a result of misinformed and ignorant parents who are religiously brainwashed and unable to think sensibly or have empathy towards their own newborns, is yet another terrible aspect of human society. Sadly circumcision is unquestioned and condoned as a religious choice left upon parents, when it should be widely spoken about and condemned as any kind of child abuse should be.

    Violent crimes such as these need to end now which is not possible unless humanity awakens from the darkest states of unconsciousness, apathy and rigid adherence to popular yet senseless traditions that are not only horribly evil but also of no value to us all.

    Please share this article far and wide to educate others and save babies and children from the adverse effects of the very widely prevalent yet completely irrational custom of baby genital mutilation.

  • Five Ethical Issues of Animal vs. Human Rights

    Five Ethical Issues of Animal vs. Human Rights

    As children we all have seen beautiful animals being raised as pets by families around us and wanted to have a pet for ourselves too. Many of us have had the privilege of ‘owning’ a pet animal and regard ourselves as ‘animal lovers’ simply because we love cuddly kittens and dogs. But could there be something that we are ignoring when it comes to the rights of animals as compared with the rights of humans?

    1. Sexual Abuse: Females are raped or forcefully inseminated in pet trade, dairy and animal farms where they are forcefully restrained during the act for the sole purpose of monetary profit of humans. In the case of special or selective breeding they are often subject to forced incest with their own sons or close family members which also causes several genetic complications and creates health problems such as low immunity, cancer and early death, while unwanted or unattractive babies are disposed off. Female animals are found suffering in gruesome pain with the frequent forced intercourse and labor of bearing children repeatedly, not to mention the emotional agony of their babies being snatched away. Is it possible for us to allow human females and babies to be abused and sold similarly? Then why are there no laws against animal breeding, farming and trade?
    2. Animal Control and Strays: While there are thousands of strays suffering, hungry and maimed on the streets or dying in road accidents in many underdeveloped countries, in developed nations we see hardly any stray dogs or cats on the streets because they are simply caught and killed in ‘animal pounds’ by animal control officers if not found or adopted within a few days of being lost or abandoned. Animal shelters try to rescue as many as they can but quite often animals are treated as ‘easily disposable’ trash on our streets and killed as soon as possible unless adopted. Pets are also euthanized or ‘put down’ by vets quite easily whereas human euthanasia is considered questionable even in the most severe of cases. Could we ever consider culling of homeless or ill humans in the same way? Then how do we justify this being done to animals just to restrict their population or lifespan simply because they are of no economic benefit to us.
    3. Spaying and Neutering: Spaying and neutering pets is mandatory almost everywhere or at least considered essential for all pet ‘owners’, so much so that baby animals are operated upon even before they have ever had a chance of naturally growing into or exploring their sexuality. Natural intercourse and mating between animals is considered wrong whereas forced intercourse for human greed is considered normal. This itself is one of the most ironic and usually ignored ethical issue when it comes to animal rights. The only reason for this is the fear that we might have to take care of the babies of our highly ‘loved’ pets which creates the issue of abandoning those ‘excess’ babies that land into animal pounds unless we spay and neuter them and prevent them from reproducing any further. Could we think of doing these procedures of spaying and neutering to our own human children for the sake or birth control or population control? Then why is do we not treat our pets in the same compassionate way?
    4. Owning Animals: When it comes to humans we consider ourselves as free beings with the rights to our own independent life. However animals are treated as commodities for sale, as exhibits in zoos and as easy subjects of experimentation, dissection and animal-testing. We proudly call ourselves pet-owners as if it is our right to own another being. We have artificially domesticated animals by taking them out of their natural habitats to be turned into our pets or farm animals for our enjoyment and comfort. Use and abuse of animals whether as race horses, beasts of burdens, cows for milking, sheep for shearing, cattle for rearing, hens for egg laying, pets for trading or for any selfish purpose whatsoever is unethical, no matter how prevalent and widespread. Could we allow ourselves or our human children to be ‘owned’ by any other alien specie for any of their experiments or projects? Then how do we consider ourselves to be any less monstrous when it comes to the way we treat other species on earth?
    5. Slaughterhouses: The biggest of all crimes in the world happens not anywhere around us but on our dinner tables everyday. We slaughter animals as if they were vegetables or fruits growing on trees and are ‘meant’ to be eaten. Because we purchase these slaughtered animals at the butchers or from supermarkets, all sliced and wrapped in packets, most children do not even know that there was immense bloodshed and pain in the making of their ‘happy meals’. We are responsible for lying and hiding facts from our children just to keep them eating the same things that we have been programmed to eat by our parents. Someone rightly said ‘if slaughterhouses were made of glass, everyone would turn vegan’. Yet, we vehemently protest when vegans try to post videos or pictures of what goes on behind closed doors of animal factory or farms even as billions of innocent animals are gruesomely murdered day after day simply to feed the taste-buds of the majority who refuse to open their eyes. This by itself is the single most demonic act that makes us the most evil specie on the planet. When we have strict laws and religious commandments preventing murder or killing of humans, then how come our laws have failed miserably when it comes to animals?

    Let us ask ourselves, ‘how can we go to any kind of ‘heaven’ or be one with any ‘God’ by simply following a certain faith or beliefs or merely through rituals, prayers and meditation, unless we become kind and compassionate to all creatures ourselves?’ Mainstream religions have so far made us believe that the ‘Creator’ considers humankind to be a special race or species who is allowed to dominate earth and control or abuse land and animals at our will, yet common sense tells us that the Creator is One with all beings and not partial to human specie. Would we ever be able to actually be in the energy of the One True Creator and be able to manifest a kind and compassionate universe instead of being slave to regressive beliefs that have only led to tremendous suffering and degradation of our planet?