I confess that when I read the news I thought it was one of those joke news that are around the internet, but no, it is true, and although everything has an explanation, I will give it to you below, it is still surprising that the law allows this to continue happening.
As many of you will know in the US It is very common to practice circumcision of children, as they comment for reasons of hygiene and as prevention of possible future sexually transmitted diseases. The Jews do it too, but more like a religious ritual, a tradition that is called metzitzah b'peh, which involves cutting the skin of the baby's foreskin, suck the blood with your mouth until it stops bleeding, apply an antibacterial ointment and bandage the area. This procedure, which was reported years ago, may continue to be done in New York because it has been considered legal.
Pederasty?
Of course, being the way things are today, religion is persecuted for numerous cases of pedophilia (which has the matter, because Jesus said "let the children come to me", but not to abuse them, precisely), image of a religious person, of whatever religion, sucking a baby's penis, it's awfully nasty and objectionable.
One of the reasons for the complaint was that, it was not normal for an adult to suck a baby's penis. However, the Jewish rabbis explained that there is no intention to enjoy that moment, that there is no sexual pleasureIt is simply a traditional practice to draw blood and help heal the wound.
Disease transmission
The problem is that there are currently more hygienic ways to heal a wound than by putting a person's mouth in it, with all the microorganisms that a mouth can have. It may sound exaggerated, but it isn't, precisely because deaths have already been reported after this practice. Earlier this year, the New York Department of Health reported that between 2000 and 2011, 20,493 circumcisions were performed with subsequent oral contact and cure, with eleven cases of children who had contracted the herpes zoster virus for this reason. . Two of them died.
The judges, in the courts, and after a long legal battle that has lasted for years, have ended up giving the reason to the Jewish rabbis when considering that It is part of the Hebrew religious praxis and that there is no moral or sexual harm to children. Apparently the terms of health have been left aside, since, as you have been able to read, such a practice puts the health of children at risk without any need.
Anyway, this is the world we live in. Let's see if I find the button or lever that stops it, which I think I get off.
