In recent days, celebrity news has been aflutter with talk that Jimmy Kimmel “had surgery on his penis … twice!” Though we don’t know exactly when, it appears that as an adult Kimmel underwent two “horrible” operations to reopen his urethra when “it just kind of closed up on its own.”
What nobody’s saying is that Jimmy almost certainly experienced not two but three horrible penis surgeries. And the first one – his circumcision – was responsible for the other two.
Meatal stenosis, the narrowing of the penis’s opening, is one of the most common complications of circumcision. It can occur years or even decades later, because cutting off the foreskin disrupts the normal blood flow in the penis, causing it to atrophy and scar over time.Do we think that a well-informed guy like Kimmel didn’t do some research on what caused his ailment? If you Google “meatal stenosis,” you’ll see source after source confirming that the condition virtually never occurs in intact (i.e., “uncircumcised”) guys.
So I think Kimmel does know, and I think he’s sent us a sly thumbs-down message about circumcision. Check out the coincidental March 15 release of his special Obama edition of “Lie Witness News,” in which, after she supposedly fails to spot the lie about “the President’s newborn son Marcus,” a pretty young woman boldly tells parents: ”You don’t have to circumcise if you don’t want to.”
You go, girl! And, Jimmy, thanks for giving us a heads-up!
Georganne Chapin
Mama24-7
March 25, 2015 1:13 pmI wonder if he’s come across foreskin restoration. Hopefully yes, so he won’t have a need for any further surgeries.
James
March 25, 2015 3:04 pmIf he watches the late night TV competition he probably knows about it, Jimmy Fallon referenced the Joy of Uncircumcising on his show last fall.
Mary Minshall
March 25, 2015 3:01 pmI looked up Jimmy Kimmel in Wikipedia and found out that he is not Jewish, but, as the encyclopedia states, “the son of Joan (née Lacono), a homemaker, and James Kimmel, an IBM executive. He is, and was raised, Catholic, and as a child served as an altar boy. Kimmel’s mother is of Italian ancestry; two of his paternal great-great-grandparents, Theresa and Christian Kimmel, were German immigrants.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel
I don’t know where this confusion originated, but I believe it may have come from a previous relationship Kimmel had with Sarah Silverman, who is Jewish.
Intact America
March 26, 2015 12:36 amThank you for the correction about Kimmel’s religious background. The mistake in the original post has been deleted.
TLCTugger
March 25, 2015 5:34 pmKimmel’s family is Italian and Catholic, not Jewish.
Intact America
March 26, 2015 12:35 amThank you for the correction about Kimmel’s religious background. The mistake in the original post has been deleted.
djbiviano
March 26, 2015 12:05 pmGreat post, Georganne! Kimmel does s
eem to be running a sly campaign of awareness. It strikes me that the gullibility of the respondents reflects the gullibility of those who support cutting!
Richard Davis
March 26, 2015 4:15 pmHe could be a more more blatant if he’s opposed to circumcision.
Howard.
March 27, 2015 11:12 amI agree – tell it like it is ! The problem with being so subtle is that message will go right over a lot of heads.
Gianluca
April 2, 2015 1:07 pmI wonder how large is the incidence of meatal stenosis in the lifetime of a male circumcised at birth. The wikipedia article states that it is anywhere between 0 and 11%:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatal_stenosis
Another article in MedlinePlus states that it is usually not noticed in boys until toilet training:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001599.htm
It’s sad that parents are never fully informed about all risks and downsides of circumcision when handed over the consent form in hospitals.
Dr Doug Campbell
May 21, 2015 1:39 amThis is so disappointing. Whilst it is not clear why he had a circumcision, we know that most adult circumcisions are due to phimosis. Stretching of the foreskin using scientifically based tissue expansion is always preferable to extreme and permanent surgery. Phimosis can be cured at home with gentle foreskin stretching.
Chris Weaver (@crweaver987)
May 28, 2015 8:14 amOn a rare occasion when this urethra problem comes up, I’m always tempted to think of it as Hank Hill’s disease, referring to the King of the Hill’s lead character’s affliction which prevented him and Peggy from having more than just the one child, namely Bobby.
oogenhand
July 31, 2015 9:00 amReblogged this on oogenhand and commented:
Meatal stenosis is the side effect of keratinization, which will also occur if you vigorously clean the genitals.
Tom Arnold
August 4, 2015 3:11 pmSo, if one reason why you’re against circumcision is the baby doesn’t want it, what are your thoughts on abortion? After all, shouldn’t the baby be able to choose if it lives or dies? Is that not the ultimate choice, life and death? And most importantly, whose choice is it to make?
TLCTugger
August 5, 2015 12:36 amNo matter when you believe human rights begin, they surely do not end at birth. Let folks work to end suffering in the ways they are best equipped to do so and there will be less suffering.
ianbrettcooper
September 16, 2015 10:04 amI would be careful about giving Kimmel too much credit. He doesn’t seem too well endowed in the brain department.
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