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Title: Circumcision: Frankly Speaking by Andrea W. Harter, Gerald N. Weiss ISBN: 0-9667219-0-X Publisher: Wiser Enterprises Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 1.74 (38 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: What a price to pay for rant and agenda
Comment: I have read Weiss's little pro-circumcision book and found it laugable. Is he going senile, is he carrying a secret cultural agend, does he actually think anyone of right mind would pay 50 dollars for this work of ego and bias.
I'm sure he and his dear, albeit diminishing pro-circ supporters find it difficult to think this ritual mutilation in non Moslem/Jewish society is decreasing. Anyone who has actually seen a circumcision and has had their eyes open, can not think of this as anything other the child abuse most dire.
If the " good " doctor has done many of these sexual mutilations premptively one could only hope he can sell enough of this none sense to pay his lawyer, when his victims decide to sue him.

Rating: 1
Summary: Speaking on behalf of professional butchers
Comment: ...Disinformation about circumcision has been put out on the American public for at least a century.The author only contributes more of the same by using outdated studies.....Harter also fails to acknowledge that such a traumatising procedure(performed without anesthesia)may have long-term psychological consequences.All in all a terrible waste of a book.

Rating: 1
Summary: Weiss Belongs in the Dark Ages
Comment: This book is TERRIBLE and it stands out amongst the other books offered here by Amazon.com.
Why? Because it is advocating circumcision, something which no major medical association in the world recommends be performed routinely anymore. Also, as many others pointed out, 80-85% of the world's men are NOT circumcised, thus anyone advocating circumcision in today's day and age is on dangerous ground ethically and legally. Many men are beginning to sue hospitals and doctors such as Dr. Weiss who peform circumcision on them without their consent. Not only is curcumcision medically unnecessary but it has disadvanatges too.
New research by doctors and sexologists indicates that the foreskin is necessary not only to protect the penis from being damaged but to provide vital sexual functions for the man and his female partner. Weiss's statement around pages 24-25 that circumcision does nothing to alter the functioning of the penis is LUDICROUS! You don't have to be an M.D. to be aware that this statement is a LIE! Is he aware how many M.D.'s and sex researchers would take that statement apart? Removal of the foreskin has been shown to damage sexual sensitivity and sometimes provide sexual discomfort for the man and the woman. Why does Weiss not report the sexual damage that is done by circumcision? The book goes down hill from here using outdated and disproven medical studies and statistics. Circumcision has no medical benefits and may even have medical disadvantages. Some research being done now shows that circumcised men may be MORE at risk of AIDS than uncircumcised men.
Dr. Weiss is living in the past. He has performed so many circumcisions that he has the arrogance to still advocate it because he cannot admit that he was part of a generation of doctors who didn't understand the functions of the foreskin as we do today. Read statements by Dr. George Denniston who opposes circumcision in which he says that doctors who realize that circumcision is dying off and should be dead are part of the future and those who still do it are living in the past. Dr. Weiss does not tell his readers that some boys who are circumcised become angry and resentful towards doctors and towards their parents and soemtimes need counselling and hate their parents for it. Some men are now choosing to restore thier foreskins and want them back. Boys circumcised today may want to restore their foreskins and may be angry with those who took it from them. The point Weiss seems unware of is that countries and governments are considering regulating and possibly criminializing male circumcision. It will eventually be illegal to pefrom this on someone without his consent. I have realized that if I become a parent in a few years that I will leave my boy's bodies untouched and allow them to have control over what is done to their own genitals. Weiss convicts himself when he accuses others of being "anti-circumcision". As many of us have said, the MAJORITY (85%) of men in the world are not circumcised. It is those who are circumcised who are in the minority, and that includes Weiss. People who are not circumcised are not some small insignificant group, they are MOST of the world. Europe and Scandinavia do not circumcise and think that we are way behind the times here in North America.
It is time for Dr. Weiss to retire and fade away, which he will have to do soon anyway. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! Imagaine the arrogance of Dr. Weiss writing a 5 star review of his own book! Read the great books available here at Amazon.com by Dr. Ronald Goldman (a Jew who opposes circumcision) such as "Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma" and "Sex As Nature Intended It" by Kristen O'Hara which explains how circumcision damages the functioning of the penis as designed by nature (contrary to what Weiss says in his book) and how this can damage a man and a woman's sex life. These books are several hundred pages long and explain the thousands of reasons not to circumcise. Why is Weiss's book less than 100 pages? Because he couldn't find enough information to recommend circumcision to fill that many pages because it doesn't exist. His book is also published in the fall of 1998, prior to the AAP recommending against routine infant circumcision in March 1999 and is outdated in this regard too. This book will be viewed by historians of an example of what we were doing wrong in the 20th Century whereas the books by Goldman and O'Hara will be viewed as books providing a light into the future.