My name is b.nour eddine, I am 25 years old.
I am from Algeria and I am against circumcision.
Circumcision is a crime and genital mutilation.
My story with circumcision began when I was circumcised when I was 5 years old. On that fateful day, a natural part of my genitals was amputated without any medical reason and against my will. I remember having normal, intact genitalia. I remember the feeling of having the foreskin. I remember what my body looked like before it was mutilated. I lived the first five years of my life with my natural body, which I was born with, and I did not suffer from any health problem, being normal.
I remember the day of the circumcision, I woke up early that day. They dressed me in new clothes, then my father took me in that morning to the clinic where the crime took place. I was unaware of what was about to happen to me exactly. But I knew it wouldn’t be pretty and something painful would happen to my penis.
I was afraid because I didn’t know what would happen to me exactly. And because I had bad previous memories about my older brother’s circumcision. The thing I remember the most was the sound of his crying and screaming in pain after the end of the operation.
After I arrived at the clinic, my stress and anxiety were increasing for the fear of the unknown. I’m starting to see new faces of people that I don’t know and have never seen before. Then, when the expected moment came, I was taken to the room where the crime took place. My father was in the room with me, but I don’t remember exactly how many other people were in the room. Maybe it was five or six people.
I was put on the bed lying on my back, then my genitals were exposed, and my father and the rest of the other men grabbed me by the hands and feet, and in the end I was pinned down unable to move or resist.
In those moments, I was not looking down at my genitals, but rather looking up at the ceiling. It was embarrassing and strange for me that my genitals were exposed and touched by and in front of people who were strangers to me, even with my father in the room with me.
Then the operation began. First, I felt a slight pain when the doctor pulled my foreskin hard, then I felt cold metal tools touching my penis, and after a few seconds I cried out in terror. I felt the worst pain I’ve ever had in my entire life.
Until now, I can’t find the right words to describe that pain.
I have gone through several physically painful experiences in my life but none of them came even close to the pain I felt that day.
I do not know how many seconds or minutes passed, but it was terrifying and unbearable , and I was screaming and crying and trying to move to escape from this horrific situation, but to no avail. Until I passed out from the pain.
After few minutes I woke up. I was still lying in the same bed, and the doctor was wrapping bandages on my penis, after which my father carried me in his arms and took me out of the clinic and brought me home. And I was in a state of shock, I couldn’t do anything, I couldn’t even cry or talk.
My parents received congratulations from the family members, and the amputation of a part of my body was celebrated, and money and gifts were given to me for the cutting of a part of my body.
Time passed and I grew up like the rest of the children in my community, believing that circumcision is a normal thing that all males around the world go through.
Deep inside me during my childhood years I knew there was something wrong about this practice. Why it should happen? And why should we cut off parts of children’s genitals? But how do I know? In my society, I was raised that this is normal and a religious practice that must be applied.
But the truth will not remain hidden forever. Over the years, many situations and occurrences have passed that made me doubt and wonder why we do this practice? And is it beneficial or harmful? Going by discovering that there are classmates from school who have not undergone circumcision (although their number is very few in my country) to discovering that most males in the world are not circumcised and that circumcision is practiced only among Muslims, Jews and some other cultures . And to my hearing from time to time about accidents and medical errors that occurred during the circumcisions, which led to death or amputation of the penis of the victims. And my discovery that there is another thing, which is female circumcision, which I did not know existed because it does not happen in my country. But the strange thing is that everyone used to describe it as a crime and genital mutilation, and they were fighting it and issuing laws to prevent it, despite their complete disregard for male circumcision.
All these things that I went through in my childhood and teenage years eventually led me to search for this topic, especially since we have become in the age of the Internet. And it is easy to access any information we want.
In the beginning, I knew that circumcision was unnecessary and that it was a procedure without any benefit, but I thought that it was not harmful (except for cases of medical errors or various medical complications that could occur during the circumcisions ). This happened when I was 19 or 20 years old. and I didn’t care much about it at that time.
However, my interest in circumcision has returned in recent months, thanks largely to Dr. Sami Aldeeb.
I was following his posts on social media, and he was talking about circumcision a lot, and I discovered that he has a whole book on this topic.
I was surprised that I did not pay much attention to the issue of circumcision before, although it was a painful experience and caused amputation of a natural part of my body.
So I started researching and diving into this topic. It was simple for me, and I did not find any difficulty in accepting the truth. All the evidence indicates that circumcision is a crime and is harmful, and there is no benefit from it.
I discovered the functions of the foreskin, which I was denied . And I discovered the various negative effects of circumcision. It was easy to see that the alleged benefits of circumcision are just nonsense and absurdities being promoted by religious groups that practice circumcision or by doctors who benefit financially from circumcision.
Does any sane person believe that cutting off a natural part of the human body that has functions is beneficial and not harmful?!
After I researched this topic and learned the truth about circumcision and its harms, I knew the functions and importance of the foreskin. Now I feel anger, sadness, and heartbreak for what I have lost and what was stolen from me and I am jealous of normal men who have not had their genitals mutilated.
I feel like a part of my body has been stolen from me forever.
Every time I look at my penis, I see something abnormal. I see distortion. And I know that my natural body, which I was born with, is not supposed to look like this.
I love and respect my body. That is why I am angry and dissatisfied with what happened to me because I did not agree to amputate any part of my body.
My body was mutilated when I was a child, unable to resist or object.
It is not only about the damages of circumcision, the functions of the foreskin, or the pain of circumcision. But also with my dignity as a human being and my right to preserve my whole body and my right to be protected from amputation of any part of my body without my consent and my right to freedom of choice.
Circumcision is genital mutilation and a flagrant violation of one of the most important human rights to maintain physical integrity.
And a violation of the right to freely choose what one wants to do with his body.
Circumcision of infants and children is not a medical practice but a crime.
Circumcision violates the medical ethics.
In medicine, there are two basic rules that cannot be ignored before performing surgeries or before amputating an organ from the human body.
The two rules are the consent of the patient and the existence of a medical necessity to perform the surgery.
And always surgical operations or amputation of any part of the human body is the last solution that the doctor should suggest, and that is only when all other methods fail to treat the disease.
In infant circumcision, both conditions are not respected.
First, it is performed without necessity or medical reason.
Secondly, it is done without the consent of the owner of the body.
The claim that circumcision is a choice of the parents is unacceptable because the children are not the personal property of the parents, but they are an independent entity in themselves.
Parents have the power to make decisions on behalf of their children, but under conditions that must not be exceeded. Among them is not to make permanent changes in the child’s body, such as cutting off a part of his body, without any medical necessity.
Child circumcision cannot be tolerated and accepted for religious reasons, because this practice violates the child’s right to maintain the integrity of his body and his right to freedom of choice.
What are the other organs that will be allowed to be amputated from the bodies of children if there are religious reasons that make parents want to cut them from the bodies of their children?
Whoever wants circumcision for religious reasons or for any other reason can choose this procedure after he becomes an adult. and It is done with his personal consent, with his knowledge of the consequences and results of his choice.
Where are the organizations that claim to defend human rights?
Where is the United Nations? Where is UNICEF? Where is the World Health Organization? Where are the governments of countries that claim to defend human rights and children rights? These criminals and hypocrites did not just remain silent and ignore this crime. But in fact, they are supporting and promoting this crime using absurd and unfounded arguments such as fighting HIV!
Where are children’s rights organizations? Why do we not hear any voice from them even though this crime is committed daily on thousands of male children around the world!
The reason is clear: these organizations and governments do not really care about human rights as they claim, but rather care about achieving their personal interests only.
These organizations and governments are run and controlled by parties that do not want to criminalize male circumcision and want it to continue.
If an issue (for example, male genital mutilation) harms their interests or affects their ideas and beliefs, they will ignore it and ridicule it.
They are not interested in defending human rights except when they have an interest or when they are pressured by a party stronger than them.
These criminals and hypocrites revealed their true nature to the world, and only ignorant and fools will trust them anymore.
Finally, I want to send a message to everyone, male and female, but especially to the men who are victims of this crime. Speak up, do not remain silent. It is our responsibility and our moral duty to fight this crime and protect future generations from it. A crime has been committed against us and we must not accept it and remain silent. We must act and demand the issuance of laws that criminalize and prevent the circumcision of children and infants, and that punish anyone who commits this crime.
