This is a question for the Pro-Routine Infant Circumcision crowd?

Ooh ooh! I can answer! It's because it's going to have to be done later anyway, and it's much easier to do it to a baby than an older person!!!!! Because they don't get as good pain killers and they're stuck with the wound in a nappy!!! Also, their kids belong to them, and they made them, and went through the pain of labour, so it's fair the kid goes through the pain too! Also, personal choice!!!!!!!!! The child isn't capable of making the decision so the parent gets to decide and obviously the child will think the same as them!!!!! Not to mention, their son's penis is none of your business! And obviously altering their child's future sex life is their business! They will have to clean the penis for 3 years so they can modify it accordingly, who cares about the 80+ years when the child will have to use it? Also, look like daddy!!!! Locker room!!!

If these people think a question on YA is bad they should just ponder this; today's baby boys will grow up with so much more information available to them at a so much younger age. In the past boys grew up and even married without realizing that their penis had even been modified, without knowing that something had been taken from them. Today's boys will know at a very early age that they have been robbed of 20,000 nerve endings on their special part, they will read that the five most sensitive areas of their penis were cut off and that not one area that they now have left can compare to any that were cut off.

How will you like this question? Mom and Dad did you know that the most sensitive spot on my penis is along the "circumcision" scar. My best 'happy spot" is a scar! What gave you the right to decide how my genital should look? Did you think that I would be too stupid to wash my penis? Did you think I would be too stupid to use a condom? Why did you think I would care if my penis would match dad's? So if Dad didn't get to keep his complete penis I don't either? When does the stupid end?

Why is this question posted here? IT NEEDS TO BE EVERYWHERE!

To the she-child that doubted that a man would be given powerful pain-killers for such a "small cosmetic procedure". I have had small procedures done to me and was given prescriptions that have very big Federal warnings about distributing without a prescription. I never used any of them, that included three very unpleasant rectal surgeries; however, I do recall my "circumcision" post-op pain when I was 8 years old, I WOULD HAVE USED the Oxycontin had it been offered. Hacking off part of the penis is not a "small cosmetic procedure" it is the most sensitive part of a man, as a she-child you have no idea. I pity the baby boys that are given nothing effective to ease their pain.

This question might strike some guilty nerves, but I am quite certain that it will not draw blood or leave a scar. When parents and "doctors" force their opinion on a baby boy that is not true.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Not enough speak up for the infant boys! I was circumcised at birth and hated being cut. I have since restored my foreskin and life is good again. I wish someone had spoke up before I was circumcised.

if your question is designed to be educational instead of causing drama, why dont you post it in the pregnancy section. people in this category generally already have children and have already made decisions on their child's health care (which i believe they should be able to make on their own with research and advice from their doctor, and personal preference) you may get much better results in that category. i do not have a son, but when i do i will not circumcise because my husband isn't, and i dont want there to be confusion when he's little. this is just a suggestion so you aren't targeted with hateful responses and so others that have already made the decision aren't insulted.

*EDIT* UTI's are EXTREMELY painful and the biggest inconvience ever. so thats completely untrue. so i would take that out if i were you, if you arent going to delete the entire question. UTI's turn into bladder infection, that turns into kidney infection, that could cause permanent damage. they are usually easily treated and cleared up, but some arent. i usually have to go through many different meds because mine are always resistant to the normal medications. i am not pro or anti circumsise, but that is just an entirely false statement.

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

It's time people spoke out against infant mutilation, that cruel, barbaric practice.

For too long Americans were gullible, believing the propaganda promulgated by the medical community about the so-called benefits of male genital mutilation.

Most of the rest of the world didn't believe it, and in Europe, Scandinavia, South America and most of Asia men are unmutilated and function quite well, and people there aren't dropping of the dreaded diseases supposedly prevented by maiming infant boys.

But I guess that we Americans are more gullible and the old wive's tales and outright lies about circumcision are still parroted by those who have never even seen a foreskin.

I only wish that my own parents had given more thought about what they were perpetrating on their son.

Now I am restoring my foreskin, which isn't quite finished yet, but it has vastly improved my sexual sensitivity and function. Orgasms are much more intense, and I feel more complete, and whole as a man.

I cannot comprehend how anyone cannot understand that an undamaged penis feels and functions better than a damaged one.

Circumcision is the worst hoax ever perpetrated on the male sex.

A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright.

ERIC

I am not saying I am either way but I am just wondering how many grown men say , Oh I don't want to get an STD Ill go get my penis cut!

I don't know any men other than maybe the few religious obligated - that have opted for circumcision - with that being said... nearly every man I have met said they wish they were the opposite of what they were.. generally more being the uncirc wanting to be circumcised.

All the points you make are valid points..

It really is up to the parents

I don't understand how they can still do it, since the risks far outweigh all of the dubious claims of benefit. Wish my parents had been better informed. I resent my own mutilation deeply. You've stated the facts very well and I totally agree with you,

Geoff

I completely agree with you. My son is circ'd and i completely regret it. There are more problems that come with cricumcision than without it. why do you think 80% of men in the world are intact and 50% of boys in the US are now intact? ( these are young boy/babies) men it's much higher. It was not my penis and i comepltely regret the decision i made. even the doctor who did it tried to persaude me not to do it saying all the problem they do cause later in life that some people don't connect to circumcision ( erectile dysfunction, crooked or leaning penis, too tight of foreskin, infection leading to amputation, adhesions, loss of sensation, pain during intercourse circumcision also prevents full growth potential). BTW Both my brother and fiance have had UTIs and both of them are circumcised

purely for cosmetic reasons is why people do it. they do it because they feel it is the "norm" It is not beneficial for the child. it is a useless and unnecessary cosmetic procedure that should be banned. why is it illegal to circumcise females in the us but not illegal to circumcise males? I think it's ridiculous to cut a piece of your child's skin off the day their born. All of you pro-circ's can come and try to justify yourself all you want. You are all in the wrong. And to the idiot who said "it feels no worse than a vaccine" wtf is wrong with you? How do you compare a simple shot to practically cutting someones penis off? How in your right mind can you think that feels the same as a shot? Cut some off your skin off then jab yourself and come back to answer me. Some people are so clueless. And please refrain from the comment "i did my research!" I don't think visiting google counts as doing research.

Oh don't even waste your time.

Deep down these people are so guilty over mutilating their sons for no good reason that they will always answer defensively and try to make you seem like the bad guy. Either that or they are just too ignorant to realize what an awful thing they did to their child and are in denial. You're not going to get through to them and you can't make them grow their babies' foreskins back.

I agree that this would be better posted in the pregnancy section to help educate those who have not yet mutilated their child.