07/27/2022
Your Whole Baby believes that hypospadias, chordee, webbing, and/or pe**le torsion surgeries should not be performed on babies or children who cannot consent and are still developing, as long as they can urinate freely.
Pe**le torsion and chordee are natural variations that often correct themselves with growth. Pe**le torsion and chordee also are contraindicated for neonatal circumcision, and both conditions can be acquired as a complication of circumcision.
As long as a child can urinate, their p***s is doing everything it needs to right now! As the body grows, the skin loosens and the torsion, webbing, and/or chordee may relax. Torsion can also be incorrectly assigned to an individual, as the raphe line, the visible line extending from the a**s up the underside of the p***s, is not always a straight line.
Surgical intervention to straighten the p***s is incredibly invasive. Surgery requires general anesthesia, which the CDC advises against in children under age three for medically unnecessary procedures. Surgery involves repeated artifical erections, degloving of the shaft, and can include insertion of prosthesis. Consider that scar tissue will not grow and stretch like non-scarred tissue. Multiple surgeries are often needed to release scar tissue or correct torsion after it reverts back.
You can join this intact-friendly community group aimed at helping and educating those with pe**le variations (not affiliated):
FB.com/groups/HypospadiasHelp
You can also join our community group, Raising Your Whole Baby! There are medically trained members and parents of children with pe**le variations as well! Many members can also give an account of their experience with intact partners with torsion and chordee (curve or angle of the shaft) if you would like to hear about that perspective:
FB.com/groups/RaisingYWB
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