Circumcision In MalaysiaCircumcision In MalaysiaRitual Muslim circumcision is now a fading art form here in Malaysia. You might still get to see it in the rural villages but in the towns and cities, it is mostly at the mosque with doctors in attendance or at the local clinics or hospitals.
As to the question of actually attending one such event. Yes, it was way back during my school days. It was when one of my Muslim friends whose younger brother was going through the ritual that I was asked if I'd like to witness the ceremony. Boy was I in for a surprise and that started me off learning more about circumcision. Very much later, I even asked my friend if they can do it for me but he said no - I am Chinese and not a Muslim.
Anyway, here is how it went. On the day of the ceremony, my friend's bother was asked to have a cold bath and then he was dressed in the finest Muslim attire. He was then paraded to the little mosque - which we call surau here, there there were several other boys of about the same age - about 10 -12 yrs old (they just completed learning to read the Koran). There was a banana stem placed in the middle of one of the corners of the surau and was surrounded with a piece of white cloth to segregate it from the rest of the room. Did not know at that time when I got there what that banana stem was for but soon found out when the first boy which happened to be my friend's brother was taken to that area of the room with several men accompanying him. He then sat astride of the stem. In front of him sat a man who is known as Tok Mudin - the circumciser. The Tok Mudin then took out from his bag a forceps looking thing and planted it into the stem in front of the boy. The boy was then helped to lift up his sarong - a piece of cloth sewed at one end and used to wrap round the body, to expose his penis. Several men then gathered behind the boy and held each part of his appendages - one on each arm/hand and one each on each leg spread-eagling him. The Tok Mudin then toyed with the boy's penis until it was semi-erect, pulled his foreskin forward and slipped it onto the forceps, recited some Koranic verses and then with a swift movement cut the end of the foreskin that was sticking out the other side of the forceps with a scalpel/sharp knife. The boy yelled out with a scream and it was all over. The men released the boy and he was lead to another part of the surau to rest holding onto his sarong so as not to have it touching the sensitive cut area. The next boy was lead to the enclosed area and the same process is repeated.
After all the boys were done, the Tok Mudin then went round to each boy and applied some ointment and herbal medicine onto the wound. The boys were then lead back to their houses to recuperate. The rest of us people were then treated to a feast of food, etc... celebrating the coming of age for those boys. It took about two weeks before them boys were up and about again now part of the "adult" Muslim society.
That experience really started me off wanting to know more about circumcision and I finally got enough courage to get myself circumcised at a local clinic when I was about 27 yrs. old. due to recurrent foreskin infections. Never regretted it. Now quite a number of my younger Chinese colleagues have had themselves circumcised with a little help from me - arranging the clinic for them that is.
There is a short cartoon by a local cartoonist of ours named Lat who summed up this ceremony in one of his cartoon books depicting Malaysian life published by Berita Publishing Sdn. Bhd. - Maybe you all can get a copy of it on Amazon.com. The title is Kampung Boy - sorry my early edition does not have ISBN no.
B. Too (Malaysia)
Freehand Resection recommended over Tara KLamp in Malaysia
I would like to give advice to anyone in this list who are
contemplating a circ.
By all means, choose freehand instead of using Tara Klamp. As you know, the
Klamp leaves a crush line behind when removed, and on many occasion as me and my
friends found out, bleeding do happens. This is going to be messy as most people
goes to work after the Klamp has been removed. Imagine walking down the street
with blood coming out of your pants! Besides causing a great mess, it would also
be embarrassing. Personally I recommend freehand, as it is a one time job. Go,
cut, stitch and dress. All you ever need is to change the dressing and after one
week it is all over.
I wonder is this the case with US and other places. I am from Malaysia. The
doctor in my place prefer having it done freehand rather than the klamp. As he
claims there is many cases like what I have described. Furthermore using
freehand, the frenulum would usually be removed. A circ without having the
frenulum removed would made anyone with short frenulum had harder times when
having sex or masturbating. As there is no more really free movement with the
skin (unless loosely circ) to really 'shake' on, one would grip at the skin at
the shaft with greater intensity being applied to the frenulum. This would hurt
a lot. Also as I found out, mostly of my friends, Chinese, have rather short
frenulum. Those with circ done using the klamp found it rather annoying that the
circ didn't remove the frenulum and are thinking of getting the frenulum
removed. Also the klamp seems to make a loose circ.
Some of my friends had the foreskin touching the glans (corona area) when
flaccid. But most of them complained about the frenulum. I suspect majority of
Chinese man over here in Malaysia had short frenulum.
Andrew
Circumcision Contagious in Malaysia
I been a very interested with circumcision for a very long time now. I am now 27 years old and have been circumcised at the age of 22.
I grew up in Malaysia and the topic of circumcision is not really a taboo. The Malay community circumcised their son by the age of 12.Most earlier though. I know for a fact there are a lot of Chinese that send their kids for the procedure knowing it is the best way of keeping your self clean.
At the age of 9 my parent wanted to send me for a circumcision learning from uncle that is really easy to keep the penis clean after that. I refuse at the age fearing the pain ( i hate it ) and not really wanting some doctor to touch me.
Only much later when i started having sex did I think about it again. The foreskin was getting in the way of the condom. I kept slipping forward and causing the condom to break. I seen other guys with circ dicks before. In movies and in person and started to consider. I started surfing the internet for more information and came across many anti-circ sites and got a little startled. It was much later on I came across CIRCLIST.com. (.org then) and was converted. I met a few people online that encourage me to get circ. All the pros and cons were seriously considered. even though circ is carried so frequently no doctors understood what high or low was about. Again that turn me off. That was the time the TARA Klamp kind of circ was introduced and most doctors recommended that.
The "craze" kind of died out right after I went out of town to study. I spent 2 years in college and eventually ended up in Singapore for work. I started to think about circ again and went to research. I check with the hospitals and they quoted about 500 USD for circ and that was too much for a cash strap person. Eventually I found a doctor that was doing circ for about 100 USD in his clinic. It was a Muslim doctor who does circ for adult Muslim converts. I made an appointment and turned up at the clinic at the appointment. The doctor did circ on specific times. Normally after the clinic closes.
There were about 5 other people ahead of me for a circ. I guessed he has to be good enough to have a line for circ. There were 2 babies and3 kids who were all Muslim boys. I waited about 1 hr pass my appointment to get my turn and nearly backed out a few time while waiting. My name was called and I went into the room and it was a quick chat with the doctor. Just some general question like "why" and "how come" from him. He then explained to me the procedure. No term like that you see in circlist.com were used. It was basically a freehand method (which i wanted) and I just reminded him to cut it "snug". He then explained that it was required that Muslim circ must not have any skin covering the knob. The male nurse then prep me and he started the circ. Local anesthetic were used and the procedure took about 20 min. Meanwhile he was still chatting with me about everyday topics. He then explained that he does like using any guided method asit doest look natural. When the procedure was over I was given some pain and anti swelling medication which I left in the taxi on the way back. He also recommended that I go swimming in the sea after 5 days to help the sutures melt out.
When I got home the swelling already started and I was just about regretting it. It got worst over night and my dick really look horrible. It looked like someone beat the hell out of it at the boxing ring. The pain was hardly noticed thought. Some pain and bleeding overnight during my erections but nothing I could not handle. I went back to work 3 days later after the weekend and totally ignored the advice to go swimming in the sea. This had cost me 3 skin tunnels due to me ignoring doctors advice. After a week most of the scar healed and I could see it to be a very nicely circ low and tight. The scarline is approx 1/4 inch behind the knob and the skin never touches the knob unless I sit down and its very cold. I am very tanned naturally and the low circ is perfect as it doest allow any color difference to be seen between the inner and the outer skin. The frenulum was left intact on my request as I liked the look of it. The scar line took about 6 months to eventually smoothen out and a ring shows clearly where the cut was done. The scar also shows it was cut freehand. The scar is not straight and it looks like I been circumcised.
5 years on I have no regrets on getting circ. My partners all prefer my circ status. One of my ex girlfriends even made her future husband get cut before he married him. My girlfriend now is trying to get her younger brother circ. It’s getting contagious. I myself prefer the cut look and really enjoy the cleanliness and feeling of a bare knob.
Anonymous (Malaysia)
The Tok Mudim is the Malaysian equivalent of the Jewish Mohel. He is the traditional circumciser who is summoned to perform his duties on boys between the ages of 9 and 12. This is usually done during the school holidays (November-December), so that the boys won't have to miss school while recovering.
The "perangan" is a wooden device with a slot in it to protect the glans, much like the shield used by Mohels. "Pisau lipat" literally translates to "folding knife", and is a pen knife, similar to a Swiss Army knife.
"Batang pisang" is the trunk of the banana tree. The boy straddles the trunk, and is held by an older male member of the family (usually his father) while the Tok Mudim pulls his foreskin, inserts it between the slot in the perangan, and slices it off in one stroke with the pisau lipat.
I have an autobiographical book by a Malaysian cartoonist, Lat, that shows the whole ceremony.
Traditional Malay circumcisions are very similar to traditional Jewish circumcisions. It all depends on the circumciser (mudim), but most are loose. From what my Malay friends told me, the foreskin is pulled forward through a slotted piece of wood. Then it is quickly sliced off in a single motion. However, these days, it is becoming more common for Malay families to send their sons to the hospital to get circumcised.
The newly developed Tara KLamp is now widely used in Malaysia to circumcise young teens.
"This is how the boys sleep, after the ritual cutting of a part of the skin of the penis (circumcision). Because it hurts a lot, they bind the Blanket on a cord. In this way the blanket does not touch the sensitive part."
See Malaysian Circumcisions on Your Next Vacation
Watching mass circumcisions offers tourists "something different from the norm," Malaysia's Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourism was quoted as telling the daily Star newspaper.
Mass circumcision ceremonies could become a money-making tourist attraction in Malaysia. "By charging tourists a small fee...to watch such cultural events, the organizational costs can be covered," the minister told the paper after attending a circumcision ceremony in Kuala Lumpur in which 48 boys went under the knife. [December 14, 1997]
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Vacation in Malaysia and Witness Circumcision Rituals
Circumcision is a much heralded rite within the Moslem community in Malaysia. The practice of Islam requires it as it is considered to be an act which will purify the male genitalia and prevent the organ from infection. The coming of age of the Muslim male arrives between the ages of 12 and 15.
The holy months of Syaaban, Zulhijjah and Muharam are considered as auspicious months for this ceremony to take place. It is also normal for the circumcision rite to be performed in conjunction with a wedding, head-shaving ceremony or when the study of the Quran has been completed.
Before the circumcision can take place, the boy has to cleanse himself. He is showered with a special solution called air tolak bala which helps to protect him from any untoward mishaps during the performance of the rite itself. He is then dressed in his best attire and is carried to a stage where he will face an ornamental arrangement of turmeric-stained rice grains. This is believed to offer him courage.
He is served a drink - air tolak bala - which has been blessed with Quranic verses as a preventive measure against infection. The mudin then performs the circumcision.
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