http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110507/ap_on_he_me/as_philippines_circumcision

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Philippine city holds mass circumcision for youths


AP – A boy tries to control himself as doctors work on him during a free circumcision surgery Saturday, May …

– Sat May 7, 5:08 am ET

MANILA, Philippines – Hundreds of boys in a Philippine city turned out Saturday for a daylong "circumcision party" to provide a safe, free procedure for a rite of passage that most local males undergo as preteens.

Some boys cried in their mothers' arms while others bit their shirts to stifle sobs as doctors carried out the surgery on dozens of makeshift operating tables inside a sports stadium in Marikina city east of Manila. Outside, other boys lined up to await their turn.

"I'm a big boy now," one boy who had just finished the surgery bragged.

Officials said the event — touted in a press statement as a "circumcision party" — aims to promote safe circumcision and to offer to poor residents free surgery that would otherwise cost at least $40 in private hospitals.

As of mid-afternoon, nearly 1,500 boys aged 9 years and up had been circumcised while many were still waiting in line, city health officer Dr. Alberto Herrera said.

In the Philippines, preadolescent and adolescent boys traditionally are circumcised during summer school break from March to May. In rural areas, the surgery is sometimes performed by non-doctors using crude methods.

The city also hopes to establish a world record for the number of people attending a mass circumcision.

"We applied for the Guinness Book of World Records and we are recording everything so we can send all the data to them and hopefully it will be recognized," Vice Mayor Jose Fabian Cadiz said.

Marikina, the country's shoemaking capital, was recognized by Guinness in 2002 for creating what was then the world's biggest pair of shoes.

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That is DISGUSTING.

Ouch.

That is just plain sick.

Nystyle709 wrote:

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Yep.

They wanna hold the Guinness Book of Records title for the most stupid mass mutilation of boys?


(And ppl dare to call ME weird!)

At least the Filipinos wait until the foreskin is retractable and the kids have a working immune system. Can't say the same for Americans.

I can't with the image of the little boy with a cover over his mouth. They don't use anesthesia?

AtownPeep wrote:

I can't with the image of the little boy with a cover over his mouth. They don't use anesthesia?

Yeah. That scene resembles what went on in a Civil War field hospital.

alan smithee wrote:

Yeah. That scene resembles what went on in a Civil War field hospital.

Yikes, right you are!

AtownPeep wrote:

I can't with the image of the little boy with a cover over his mouth. They don't use anesthesia?

My bro got this done in a hospital as an adult. For whatever reason my parents didn't have him circumcised as a baby. When he turned 21 he decided on his own to do it and they put him under for the procedure. Can't imagine being awake for something like that.

Sounds like a dumb idea.

Verve wrote:

Can't imagine being awake for something like that.

I know! Wow, that sounds really gruesome. That photo of the boy makes me cringe.

FWIW, many American newborns are circumcised without anesthesia. And since the foreskin is adhered the head of the penis in a newborn, the flesh has to first be torn from the head before it can be sliced away.

When anesthesia is used in newborns, it often consists of a local injection to the penis. The needle stick and burning of the anesthetic is painful, it itself.

Routine, non-therapeutic circumcision is barbaric, no matter who it happens to.

That picture made me cringe.

That's a memory that will haunt them forever.

Fucking sick to snip off healthy pieces of flesh from little boys cocks for the sake of being recognized by Guiness.

Not sure this is a bad thing if it is at times performed in a non medical setting otherwise for the same ages.