Umgungundlovu — The Medical Male Circumcision campaign launched in December 2009 by His Majesty King Zwelithini took an impressive turn few months ago when Imbalenhle Clinic embarked on a campaign to educate, inform and perform circumcisions in partnership with local counselors, traditional organisers, school principals and the community at large.
The campaign is aimed at educating the community, especially young men, about the importance of male circumcision says Community Organizer Thokozani Ndlovu, who is responsible for the organising, educating and transporting of school children to the course.
Principal Nurse Mandisa Majozi, one of the nurses who performs circumcisions says: “We've seen a growing number of young males who comes in for the course.”
A young man will first come for HIV pre test counseling,testing, then the actual circumcision where a Tara Clamp device is used, medication is issued and the man will come back after six days for the removal of the clamp. From then onwards, a traditional organiser will take over in giving the client ongoing education and support on healthy lifestyle and mentoring.
It takes at least six weeks for the man to become sexually active and condom usage is strongly advised.
Bongumusa Ndlovu, an 18-year-old student at Bongudumo High School who came for the removal of the clamp said: “It’s a bit painful but I'm excited. I'm a real man now.”
Thandiwe Mazanqinqi-Zamisa is an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the Umgungundlovu health district in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Doesn't a real man have all of his penis?
The parts of that are cut off are some of the most highly innervated parts of the human. It is quite foolish to cut the parts off when this provides no REAL health advantage.
There is no data that shows HIV, HPV or any STD change or any real benefit to cutting off parts of a baby boys penis in the US, EU JP....In Africa the same % of cut men and natural penis men have HIV. Real world population studies show that a man with a natural penis is at no higher risk of HIV and HPV.
The International Journal of Men's Health published results of a study that showed circumcised men are 4.5 times more likely to experience erectile dysfunction due to loss of sensitivity. In a further study, The British Journal of Urology International reports that circumcised men can experience up to a 75 percent reduction in sensitivity compared to men who are not circumcised.
The knowledge of the this WOUNDING affecting sexual pleasure and function goes back years so there is NO IF as to SEXUAL HARM, it is a matter of HOW BAD IS IT for any particular guy. Maimonides (the Torah scholar) noted that the act that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable. Kellogg declared a ‘war on masturbation’ at the end of the 19th century and advocated circumcision to curb male sexual urges by removing the main male pleasure parts.
To push this unnatural practice is wrong.