A video of a boy singing to cope with the pain of circumcision, as the nurses smile and laugh, has hit the internet. To most, the video is a shocking revelation of the traumatic, fantastically painful, and totally needless violation of a boy’s bodily integrity. To others, it is somehow a ‘hilarious’ meme, to be shared with friends, and laughed over. Either way, the video started to spread. Soon, it became so widely shared, that the Government of the Philippines got involved, releasing a public announcement about the shocking clip. But the announcement did not condemn the procedure, or even the laughter of the nurses as they – likely without anaesthesia – cut away at an unconsenting boys body… No, instead, the Government condemned those sharing the video. Going further in fact, to suggest that the sharing of such a video could have ‘serious psychological consequences’ on the boy. It was an absurd announcement. One that looks past the barbaric nature of circumcising boys, and the proven trauma it inflicts, to suggest those sharing the video are causing ‘psychological harm’ instead. Are they joking?! Here are the facts – More than half (51%) of Filipino boys circumcised by medical operators exhibit PTSD symptoms. And worse, if such a thing were possible, nearly 70% of Filipino boys circumcised the ‘traditional way’ (known as Tuli) met the DSM-IV criteria for a diagnoses of PTSD. So what is to be said about the Government of the Philippines inflicting a procedure onto the entire population of boys, that literally causes PTSD in at least half of those who under go it? And why are they more concerned about the ‘psychological consequences’ of a viral video being shared? Surely, only in the upside down, permanently gaslit world of men and boys advocacy could such an obscene sequence of events happen. So who is really causing psychological harm, and failing to safeguard our boys? What do you think? #intact #intactivist ~ Study Announcement

2024-09-06