It's about time this is becoming news

[mavs>spurs]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57414851-504083/circumcision-beyond-his-control-so-inmate-sues/?tag=contentMain;contentBody


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April 17, 2012 9:05 AM
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Circumcision beyond his control, so inmate sues
By Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter
Nurse tends to a newborn baby boy at Denver Health medical facility in June 2011. (Credit: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) (CBS/AP) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - This is a story about a South Dakota prison inmate who is filing a lawsuit.
Need more? He is suing the hospital where he was born, claiming a doctor there "misled" his mother into having him circumcised.

And now, due to a circumcision beyond his control, he alleges he has suffered.

Dean Cochrun, 28, who is imprisoned in Sioux Falls on a kidnapping conviction, filed the federal lawsuit Friday against Sanford Hospital. Cochrun is asking for $1,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, saying he only recently became aware that he'd undergone the procedure and that it robbed him of his sexual prowess.

Still want more?

Cochrun asks in the lawsuit that his foreskin be restored "in the hopes I could feel whole again," though he acknowledged that he didn't expect such a restoration to be anything more than aesthetic.

Cochrun claims that an "unknown doctor" at the then-named Sioux Valley Hospital misled his mother to believe that the procedure was medically necessary. Cochrun argues that the procedure was unnecessary, unethical and without medical benefit.

"I was recently made aware of the fact that I had been (circumcised) and that ... I was robbed of sensitivity during sexual intercourse as well as the sense of security and well-being I am entitled to in my person," he argued in the lawsuit, adding that neither he nor his partners would "have that sensitivity during sexual intercourse and have a normal sex life."

Cochrun isn't represented by a lawyer. His lawsuit includes a letter from Sanford Hospital officials, responding to his own letter requesting that his foreskin be replaced. Patient relations representative DyAnn Smith replied that Sanford would not pay for the procedure.

"There will be no further correspondence about this matter," she wrote.

That's enough, we think.

[mavs>spurs]

although at the same time i am a bit upset that its an inmate trying to sue for this, which will likely alter people's perception of the whole matter and make them less sympathetic. men across the nation need to start speaking up about this so we can get stem cell research moving in the right direction. it would be hugely profitable if they engineered a way to fix what was lost, hugely profitable for whoever takes up this cause.

[IWantsACuatro]

It's ok you'll reverse that cliterodectomy some day.

[Halberto]

I understand the motive of the lawsuit, but I am SO glad that shit happened to me as a baby and that I cant remember the pain.

[mavs>spurs]

I understand the motive of the lawsuit, but I am SO glad that shit happened to me as a baby and that I cant remember the pain.

it had a lasting psychological impact, realized or not. this is what they're finding out now.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Is this why all jews are insufferable?


























i kid i kid

[mavs>spurs]

Is this why all jews are insufferable?


























i kid i kid

it ain't just jews man, 90% of the men in america had this bullshit inflicted. maybe you didn't because you're from california?

[DeadlyDynasty]

it ain't just jews man, 90% of the men in america had this bullshit inflicted. maybe you didn't because you're from california?

Nope, I'm one of the 90%.

Occupy Foreskin.


Not from Cali btw.

[IWantsACuatro]

It makes my weiner look larger. I approve.

[DeadlyDynasty]

It makes my weiner look larger. I approve.

Shaving your pubes will do that too.

[IWantsACuatro]

Shaving your pubes will do that too.


^ This guy knows what's up (pun intended).


:tu

[mavs>spurs]

if any circ'ed guy actually looks up what was done, why it was done, and all the now known ramifications it would throw you into a rage.

basically it was endorsed by kellogg (the cereal guy) as a way to stop masturbation and sex by removing the pleasure. he wanted it done under no anesthesia specifically to associate the trauma with sexual activity as a further deterrent. it causes lower self esteem in males who have been mutilated and has been linked to a higher likelihood to engage in violence against women as adults. changes the mechanics of sex and women who have had sex with both circ'ed and intact men overwhelmingly prefer intact. the jews first noted long ago that once a woman had sex with an intact man, it was very hard to keep her from him.

[Woo Bum-kon]

Those poor circumcised people. Most of them never even had a choice.

[mavs>spurs]

:rolleyes

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/13/1479.full





But whottt do they know? They're just doctors.

there is a lot of pro circumcision propoganda in america, other countries simply do not agree on the issue. nobody else in the world circumcises except americans, jews, and muslims. over 80% of the worlds men are intact.

you ever wonder why america buys the vast majority of the world's viagra? foreskin aids in maintaining an erection and as we get older we need that.

[Cyrano]

You could always try Silly Putty....

0eLtjEmfxOE

[MaNuMaNiAc]

:lmao give me a fucking break... great troll thread mavs>spurs :tu

that is I hope its a troll thread

[CubanMustGo]

Getting back to the lawsuit, I guess the dude hasn't heard of this thing called the statute of limitations.

[leemajors]

Not much use bitching about your own since it's already gone.

[Bill_Brasky]

if any circ'ed guy actually looks up what was done, why it was done, and all the now known ramifications it would throw you into a rage.

basically it was endorsed by kellogg (the cereal guy) as a way to stop masturbation and sex by removing the pleasure. he wanted it done under no anesthesia specifically to associate the trauma with sexual activity as a further deterrent. it causes lower self esteem in males who have been mutilated and has been linked to a higher likelihood to engage in violence against women as adults. changes the mechanics of sex and women who have had sex with both circ'ed and intact men overwhelmingly prefer intact. the jews first noted long ago that once a woman had sex with an intact man, it was very hard to keep her from him.

My mother had me circumcised when I was a baby.

It grew back.

[HennyYoungman]

It wouldn't have been so bad if I weren't so thin skinned.

[HennyYoungman]

Although for me, circumcision, was major surgery.

[HennyYoungman]

I weighed about 10 lbs less afterwards.

[Cyrano]

Say, Henny....is circumcision the reason you're reluctant to leave a tip?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

The typical American woman is grossed out by the appearance of the un circumcised penis

This is well documented on TV and the internets

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Plus do a quick google of the word smegma, or esmesgmal

[Smeagol's Wife]

The typical American woman is grossed out by the appearance of the un circumcised penis

This is well documented on TV and the internets

Never bothered me.

[DisAsTerBot]

The typical American woman is grossed out by the appearance of the un circumcised penis

This is well documented on TV and the internets

lol, the typical american woman is fat

[leemajors]

tbh this should have been titled Dick Talk: Foreskin Edition

[Mrs.Roper]

Never bothered me.

It wouldn't stop me.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Mrs smeagol :lmao awesome !!!!!!!

[mavs>spurs]

Reading the comments of this thread saddens me. It saddens me how many people come to this article to mock. It similarly saddens me that people come here to defend unconsentual infant genital cutting to either to placate their own sensitive egos either as unconsenting recipients thereof, or as parents accessory to unnecessary infant genital cutting.

I really don't feel like counting the number of people commenting who have this attitude such as "it happened to me, and I'm fine."

There once was a time during the 1960s or so in the US when there were published medical studies about the so-called "benefits" of female circumcision, now known as "female genital mutilation." In spite of such claims of "benefit," including concerns of "hygiene, frigidity, fertility, protection from STDs," etc. ad nausium, no amount of medical study could ever justify the genital cutting of females in today's society. It was unnecessary back then, and culture now has us viewing this act as the atrocity against humankind that it is.

Why then is it that we feel that male genital cutting based this same medical reasoning as above is OK? Stop for a moment and think critically about this. If we are REALLY expected to believe that male circumcision reduces the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, why is it that even with the majority of sexually active males altered at birth we that STILL have counter-intuitively high rates of STDs in the USA?

Are we really expected to believe that circumcision is harmless when there is a ridiculous pandemic rate of erectile dysfunction in the US? The largest consumer of sildenafil (Viagra) on earth is the US, and the largest importer thereof is Israel (by a long shot, mind you). Not many other countries even come close. Heck, go to the Pfizer pharmaceutical sales data sheet and look for those numbers. These two countries consumption rates tower drastically over many others. I don't think this is coincidence.

Circumcision isn't a vaccine against anything. If you have unprotected sex with a partner that has HIV, or some other disease, I'm sorry, but a lack of foreskin really isn't going to make that much of a difference for you. It won't protect you definitively against against any contracted infection with 100% certainty like an actual vaccine might, so please don't fool yourself on this.

If it were to problematic for males to have the genitalia they were born with, wouldn't the human race have died out years ago from our thousands of years of not doing this previously? The majority of men on this planet are uncircumcised, and we don't really hear about any epidemic of their penises falling off because of it.

Heck, infant genital cutting for religious reasons makes no sense to me either! If you felt so strongly about your religious beliefs, would you not be better off carrying those values more closely in your heart as opposed to paying someone to carve those beliefs into the genitals of your son with a knife?

Infants cannot receive general anesthesia because it kills them, so they may receive local anesthetics for circumcisions performed, but local anesthetics (assuming that they are even used) are inappropriate for tissue amputation and cannot block the pain entirely. As a result, the conscious infant is usually still conscious and screaming during the procedure from pain, unless he goes into a form of neurogenic shock resembling coma from the stress and pain.

^^Stop fooling yourselves about any part of this being ethical. Seriously. Stop it.^^

It's 2012.
We have soap.
We have water.
It doesn't make sense to try to use knives as a primary method of keeping the genitals clean anymore, so please stop being so collectively scathing about a grown man with time to spare finally having the gumption to look at the scars on his genitals put there without HIS permission or recollection and wondering "why?"

[IWantsACuatro]

to look at the scars on his genitals put there without HIS permission or recollection and wondering "why?"


IMO TBQH FWIW, It's the perfect excuse in bed for scars resulting from jerking it (or having been jerked) raw.

"Don't worry baby, that's from circumcision."

Chicks dig scars.

Also, with regard to your spiel about our ancestors, would you rather have penile spines? How do YOU think your partner would feel having one in the buttocks?

I keep my landscaping clear cut for the ladies. It's for them, the rest is for you to take a piss (plus, i wouldn't want to be pissing outside-in anyway).


Penile spines? Or circumcised penis? Your call.

http://i39.tinypic.com/34o520z.jpg

[IWantsACuatro]

But whottt do they know? They're just doctors.


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-7MmA442tYhtbY/happy_gilmore_1996_get_hit_by_car/

[Dark Gable]

To hell with that, I wear my hoodie to bed.