Looking for a new hobby in 2018? How about mastering the ancient art of ripping and rending the foreskin off of bawling babies?
Barbaric, you say. A bridge too far. And hordes of Amazon shoppers are likely to agree with you. That’s because the shopping behemoth is selling a so-called “infant circumcision trainer” so you can learn the ins and outs of this controversial procedure.
Related: What’s It Like To Be Circumcised At 25? (Hint: It’s Pretty Horrifying)
The kit is intended for those looking for a career in medicine (“Great for nursing and therapy students,” reads the listing), and includes a plastic simulation of a baby’s body and a variety of uncircumcised plastic penises so you can get right to snipping. And it costs $200, which isn’t cheap, but certainly beats trying your hand at the procedure wily-nilly on friends’ various unsuspecting infants.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The kit has already been taken off of the United Kingdom’s Amazon site, but it’s still available in Trump’s America.
In a letter to Amazon, Dr. Antony Lempert wrote:
We fear that the sale of this product may encourage unqualified practitioners to carry out unnecessary surgery on infants in non-clinical conditions, resulting in serious harm.
Fair enough.
Meanwhile, commenters on Amazon are having an absolute field day:
Oh, and 235 people found this product review “helpful”:
This reminds me of when my nephew was born. Poor kid was born with no eyelids. But the doctors were able to use his foreskin to fashion eyelids from it. Unfortunately now he’s cock-eyed.
Feel free to join in on the fun on the product’s official Amazon page.
h/t: Hornet
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CanadianGuy62
No fan of the president either, but equating the selling of this with his “America,” is really pushing the limits. NOT everything is to be blamed on the moron in the Oval Office.
Mandrake
I was going to post the same comment, but you beat me to it.
SiamSam
I know, right? These kits were also for sale during “Obama’s America” but no one complained then. Trump Derangement Syndrome at its finest.
kcguy
Oy!
One would be full of Jewish guilt if they did it yourself with a circumcision kit.
Yes you would save some Gelt! ?
jhon_siders
LOL !!!!
KaiserVonScheiss
Circumcision should just be illegal.
Rex Huskey
pulled it….amazon…pulled the kit.
jhon_siders
LOL Well the Jewish people believe in circumcision .
Iowa Rex
Religious belief does not change the fact that circumcision is no more and no less than genital mutilation.
KaiserVonScheiss
A lot of Muslims believe in clitordectomies, but that’s a felony…just like it should be.
JamJewel
I lady just recently took her son for a 20 minute circumcision procedure at a ‘clinic’ where they ended up amputating the poor boys penis. Then there’s the one about a man raised as a girl after losing his penis to circumcision. I can understand if you have a religious observance, but otherwise, it’s just plain cruel and unusual punishment.
Mr-DJ
The internet is not FREAKING.
Please stop that.
thisisnotreal
This is friggin ridiculous. I’m a 32 year old man and my parents had me circumcised at birth for what I’m assuming was health related reasons (it sure wasn’t religious reasons) and I’m a perfectly normal functioning adult. The whole conversation that circumsision is genital mutilation is fine and I don’t mind an intellectual debate about that, but the idea that having your child circumcised is child abuse and that it leaves some sort of lasting emotional and mental scar on your child is bull. I have no memory of my circumcision since I had it right after I was born and it had no effect on me whatsoever, and for all the naysayers who have some sort of guilt for growing up without a foreskin feeling like you were robbed of something beyond your choice I say how can you claim to miss something you have never had or experienced in the first place?
KaiserVonScheiss
It’s medically unnecessary cosmetic surgery. You probably wouldn’t have missed you little toes if those had been removed either, but that doesn’t make it OK.
Vince
I’m with you on most of that but guys that had their foreskin restored said it gave them better sensitivity and a better functioning dick. Of coarse that makes sense.
Would you consider removing a child’s clitoris so she couldn’t enjoy sex child abuse? Yes it’s more extreme but still an unnecessary mutilation of the body.
Vince
Both that is.
Knight
I think it’s very hard for Americans to understand just how much the rest of the industrialized world looks at them in utter disbelief on issues like circumcision. The fact that somewhere in the last century it became the standard to mutilate a male infant, cutting away part of his genitals without so much as a second thought is amazingly bizarre. Why Americans cannot see this as a needless, barbaric and cruel practice is seriously beyond me. ALL circumcisions should be voluntary and only requested by the actual OWNER of said organ…not the parents or the state. Whatever happened to “my body my choice”? Oh…I guess that only applies to American women.
SiamSam
It’s a massive cultural blindspot and it’s sick. Molesting children is wrong but cutting into a child’s genitals is A-OK. If you did this to your dog you’d be arrested for animal cruelty.
Prax07
Personally I just can’t stand looking at or touching an uncut dick. It just grosses me out and makes my skin crawl. Thankfully I’ve only come across two in my adult life. Both instances I developed an instant “migraine” and excused myself from the situations. I love cut peckers, but uncut…just no.
SiamSam
Why is “internet” capitalized? This isn’t 1995 anymore.