This nurse loved her job!
I had found this online a few years ago and fortunately had saved it. An interesting read, especially for fans of infant circumcision. Are you pro RIC?Â
I believe that the penis should look as it does when it has been circumcised. The glans should be fully exposed at all times and there should be no foreskin on the penis. Unfortunately males are born with foreskin which covers and protects the glans, or head of the penis. At birth and in childhood, the foreskin is fused to the glans by adhesions, which prevents the foreskin from being pulled away to expose the glans. By puberty these adhesions normally break down and the foreskin becomes retractable. Still, the “natural” state is for the foreskin to cover the glans when not engaged in sexual activity. Â
The only way for the glans to be permanently exposed is for the penis to be circumcised: the foreskin must be cut off. That’s the cold, hard truth. Circumcision removes the foreskin tissue, which looks like regular skin on the outside but is more like the mouth or vagina on the inside – warm and moist mucosa. The frenulum – a small band of skin on the underside of the penis that attaches the foreskin to the glans – is typically also removed in circumcision as it is no longer needed. Circumcised penises are left with a scar that encircles the shaft of the penis and a glans that is permanently denuded. The scar is the point where the skin was excised.
As a nurse in a large inner city hospital, I have assisted with approximately 1,500 circumcisions. (I am now retired from nursing.) Most procedures were performed on healthy male neonates the day after their birth. Each baby’s arms and legs were strapped to a Circumstraint, a specially designed board for restraining the child during the procedure. Most doctors used the Gomco clamp, some used a Plastibell device and others liked to use the Mogen clamp for the actual circumcision. No anesthesia was used, and most boys tolerated the pain surprisingly well.  As you would expect, most boys did plenty of crying, but medical personnel are trained to put their emotional responses in context for the good of the patient.
My main duties were to strap the child to the restraining board, assist the doctor with the surgical instruments, apply Vaseline to the newly circumcised penis, and then to diaper the baby. He would then be turned over to his mother. Â Â
Circumcision of infants is difficult to watch and hear. Parents were sometimes frightened by it, and in those cases we recommended that the procedure be carried out privately – only the physician, the nurse (me), and the baby in the room.  That was certainly my preference as parents sometimes interfered during the procedure. Â
We reassured parents that their newborn son was in the hands of skilled medical professionals. Complications were rare, and outcomes were almost always excellent.
I accept and support the circumcision of newborn males as an effective and essential corrective surgery. Infancy is unquestionably the best time to circumcise, as the male will neither remember having a foreskin nor the pain of having it removed. Routine infant circumcision is the best way of ensuring that all males are circumcised. Â
I believe circumcision is a basic and important human desire. That desire is to cut the foreskin, to permanently remove the part that conceals the sensitive, erogenous glans of the male’s penis. A penis deprived of its foreskin is more attractive and manly. For this woman, the circumcised penis looks vulnerable and helpless – it looks cut and I like knowing it was cut, soon after the man’s birth. Only a real vagina (or mouth) can ever provide the kind of protection of an uncircumcised foreskin, and this basic fact is a big turn-on.  Lastly, the circumcision scar is a powerful symbol of maleness and of the male’s sacrifice, one that all males should be made to make.
