After the circumcision, which occurs very quickly and without much pain, a celebration of food, prayers, and blessings follows. |
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The trial was therefore stopped and the uncircumcised men were offered circumcision. |
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Although circumcision is carried out more often on babies and young boys, it can be performed on men of any age. |
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The wanted them to face charges of practising circumcision without a permit. |
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Kubu was once used as a site for the initiation and circumcision of young boys. |
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Techniques for circumcision vary from excision without suturing to wound approximation with sutures and the use of tissue glue. |
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The puzzling omission from Hamowy's account is any discussion of circumcision. |
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Male circumcision is one of the most common surgical operations done worldwide and is considered by many to be a minor procedure. |
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Her father, who died five years ago, also decided that the local practice of circumcision was not for his girls. |
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The programme has also helped to cut down the number of young girls lined up for circumcision in the area this year. |
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The fourth reading of circumcision saw it as a form of medical prophylaxis. |
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After passing the tests of childhood and circumcision, boys must fulfill a civic requirement similar to military service. |
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Young men who undergo circumcision at the same time become part of a social group that lasts for a lifetime. |
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The painful and often deadly practice of female circumcision affects millions of women. |
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One traditional practice that has attracted much attention in the last decade is female circumcision. |
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And I had to tell them it was on male circumcision amongst the Xhosa tribes. |
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As in Griaule's day, after circumcision the boys demonstrate that they have mastered the meaning of the symbols by repainting the images. |
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At present, circumcision is only available on health grounds at the majority of the country's hospitals. |
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There is nothing moral or immoral about the choices we make about circumcision. |
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Another health issue affecting the Sierra Leonean American population has been the controversy surrounding the practice of female circumcision. |
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Male initiation in the form of circumcision is practiced among most Xhosa groups. |
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This is an extremely rare type of cancer, and circumcision may only offer protection if done in childhood, not during puberty. |
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Sometimes called female circumcision, this surgery robs girls of the possibility for sexual satisfaction. |
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If you have phimosis and you keep getting repeat attacks of balanitis, then circumcision may be considered. |
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Many will voice the opinion that circumcision is a cruel, barbaric procedure that can traumatize the baby. |
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In the past, young boys underwent ritual circumcision at a relatively late age. |
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There is a sharp increase in the number of girls and women undergoing circumcision in the country. |
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As furor over female genital mutilation grows, so does the criticism of male circumcision. |
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Male circumcision is the most commonly performed surgical operation in the United States. |
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Some groups practice circumcision of boys aged ten to twelve to mark their passage into manhood. |
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Sometimes circumcision is carried out for religious reasons. |
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In 2012, the AAP changed its policy statement, discarding its neutral stance to weigh in heavily on the side of circumcision. |
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Dr. Morris likens circumcision to vaccination by comparing the risk to others caused by refusing either intervention. |
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Thus it was with some alarm that I read comments from the author of a new study about circumcision and its benefits. |
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He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath. |
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He does not explicate this roundabout reference to circumcision. |
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In an appendix she offers some samples of women's songs in Mandinka and in English, all of which seem intended for occasions such as a naming ceremony or a circumcision. |
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The medical ethics committee should report on the issues surrounding the circumcision of male children for whom there is no valid medical indication. |
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There is even circumcision humour and a funny song about the snip. |
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The bris, or ritual circumcision, takes place eight days after birth. |
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They sought to transform such pagan revelries into the feast of Christ's circumcision, a calendrical amputation that proved spectacularly unsuccessful. |
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An Australian couple has appeared in court for allegedly organising an illegal circumcision of their one-year-old baby girl in Indonesian province of Bali. |
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Women who advocate circumcision for their daughters feel they are protecting their own as well as their daughter's virginity and their family's reputation. |
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They are now trained in various aspects of female health, and go from village to village educating women about the harmful effects of female circumcision. |
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He would be showered with money, eatables and gifts after which he would be brought back home for circumcision in the presence of a big gathering. |
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Stowell, born in 1981, claimed that his mother was debilitated by postsurgical pain and anesthesia when she signed a consent form for his circumcision. |
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In many places, mohels are also licensed by civil authorities, as circumcision is technically a surgical procedure. |
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The third and most severe form of FGM is known as infibulation, also referred to as pharaomic circumcision. |
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Around this same time period, Rabbinic Judaism made their circumcision requirement even stricter. |
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Initial commitment to pre-exposure prophylaxis and circumcision for HIV prevention amongst Indian truck drivers. |
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Encouraged and performed by women in the community, circumcision is primarily intended to deter promiscuity and to offer protection from assault. |
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This would strictly be the so called Pharaonic circumcision or infibulation which was the only type practiced in Sudan by then. |
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Pharaonic circumcision is, perhaps significantly, a name given to the extreme infibulation form of the operation. |
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Female genital mutilation, also known as FGM, is a painful form of circumcision, illegal in this country. |
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They spoke to passengers from countries hit by the illegal and potentially deadly procedure, also known as female circumcision. |
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In the Sudan, advocacy against Pharaonic circumcision dates back to the third quarter of the 17th century by Sheikh Hamad Wad Um Mariom. |
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The purpose and importance of female circumcision from society to society, as well as age and do it again and again varied from family to family. |
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. |
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Male circumcision and women's risk of incident chlamydial, gonococcal, and trichomonal infections. |
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Although progress feels slow in some communities, there are signs the tide may be turning against female circumcision in Kenya. |
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Sometimes an untrimmed piece of broken bottle-glass will serve as an impromptu spokeshave or as a circumcision knife. |
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There are various methods of circumcision, such as the classic surgical method, SmartClamp, and Mogen, Plastibell and Gomco clamps. |
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There was a dark coagulum surrounding the circumcision site and the urethral meatus was not visible. |
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She was campaigning against female circumcision 40 years ago and has visited many foreign brothels to see prostitutes' lives at first-hand. |
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Male circumcision is one of the most common and oldest surgical procedures in the world. |
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But his most important name, the initiation name given to teenage Xhosas when they have undergone ritual circumcision, is Dalibunga. |
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The seclusion lodge houses circumcision initiates, keeping them separate from the rest of the community. |
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He argued that baptism was a sign of a covenant with God, thereby replacing circumcision in the Old Testament. |
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Having censured the circumcision, she bethought her of kindred topics, and asked Aziz when he was going to be married. |
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Two analogies that he used quite effectively were between baptism and circumcision and between the eucharist and Passover. |
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Some anti-circumcisionists would outlaw the practice of infant circumcision, even for religious reasons. |
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Guerin Woodgate Jr., 29, says he never thought much about his circumcision until he stumbled upon some anti-circ Web sites about ten years ago. |
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In 1946, the Legislative Assembly passed a law that considered Pharaonic circumcision as an offence punishable by fine and imprisonment. |
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Unfortunately, his statement that circumcision could lead to 'reversal in the gains made against HIV infection' shows that his piece is one of proselytism, not scholarship. |
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There is also a chapter devoted to child exorcism, and a chapter on male and female circumcision and the secret history of female genital cutting in America. |
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Together, excision and infibulation are known as Pharaonic circumcision, from the fact that it is first known to have been practiced in the time of the pharaohs. |
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High-risk human papillomavirus incidence and clearance were evaluated in 999 men aged 15-49 years who participated in male circumcision trials in Rakai, Uganda. |
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So if you do not want us to circumcise our little girls, if you really believe that female circumcision is bad, then you must first show us a medicine to cure lawalawa. |
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To compare male circumcision with FGM is, at best, misinformed. |
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Not only do they simplify the circumcision procedure, but they also eliminate the need for a dorsal slit and remove the potential for mismatching parts. |
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