So why hasn't such research been performed? One answer can be found in this quote by author Warren Farrell: Society cannot hear what men do not say. Men can't say what we don't feel, and we can't get in touch with our feelings until we raise our awareness of an issue. Warren Farrell, Ph.D. - The Myth of Male Power, 1993   However, documenting this long-term harm is impeded by: widespread ignorance among men, including doctors, about complete penile anatomy and the functions and benefits of the foreskin; lack of familiarity with how to identify circumcision damage; lack of appropriate opportunities to document these adverse consequences; the fact that the U.S. medical community does not collect any statistics on the number of botched circumcisions or deaths, let alone the long-term adverse outcomes to men from 'proper' circumcisions. denial among victims - and circumcisers (many of whom are victims themselves) - that damage has occurred, as in these video interviews with circumcised women and men whose genitals were cut as young children and this debate between Essayist Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Kushner. the medical community's unethical preying upon health and hygiene fears of parents in order to promote a needless surgery from which it profits, as explained in this interview with the director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision. individual physicians who obscure the harm of circumcision by portraying it as 'health promotion' thereby asking the public to suspend common sense, demonstrated by this interview of Dr. Lisa Masterson by talk show host Craig Ferguson. This current survey is a grassroots, all-volunteer effort to provide an online self-report and documentation method for any male who considers himself harmed by genital cutting imposed on him as a child without his fully informed consent. Until the medical community investigates these consequences, the internet remains an alternate venue offering these men the comfort level they require to document such harm. While the survey of course does not claim to represent all circumcised men, most of the physical damage from a "proper" circumcision revealed by our respondents is universal among all men circumcised in infancy or childhood, whether or not they realize or admit to it. It is hoped that documenting such consequences and making the results publicly accessible will provide a starting point for dialogue about the long-term adverse consequences of male genital cutting. It is hoped that this harm will be investigated by medical communities and taken seriously by the societies where customs of male childhood genital cutting occur. previous | Table of Contents | next 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 Main Survey Site at: www.CircumcisionHarm.org

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