Should parents opting for circumcision be given information on the pros of keeping their sons intact?

No.

Circumcising an infant without dire medical need shouldn't be allowed.

I have no idea what you are talking about parents "right" to chose for their children. Parents have Absolutely no right to do that to their child. The RIGHTS that are being violated with circumcision are the child's. The choice of circumcision is the right of the individual male, not the right of the parent.

Please don't confuse parenting with being a property owner. Being a parent of a child gives you no such authority to make cosmetic decisions an unnecessary medical decisions for your child. If you would like to do such things go buy a dog.

EDIT: I never said you were pro-circ. You just mentioned that it was your right as a parent to not get your son circumcised. Parents have no right to their son's body in anyway no matter if it's to make or not make a decision. The right to circumcision does not lie with the parent at all because it was never the parent's decision to begin with.

-Connor

Oh, you mean like VBAC? Where they give all the negatives, but never mention the positives or the concerns about c-section?

I would be all for providing parents with both the pros and cons of circumcision. However, just like VBAC, a parent is only going to get the biased information that the doctor sides with. Even your own statement doesn't address the positives of circ, so you are just as biased.

The argument about the sensory information is based on ADULTS or TEENAGERS being circumcised, not infants.

@Anakin's Mommy "they do no longer understand that having a toddler circumcised saves the youngster from infections and wellbeing issues." "or handle infections, and so on. each and every of the time while they are older. it is likewise easier to maintain sparkling." Looool this american anti-foreskin propaganda could be hilarious if ineffective surgical treatment on toddlers became into no longer so unhappy. heavily if foreskin became into ONE 10th as undesirable as you're making it look, why could eu worldwide places care so little approximately circumcision? in basic terms 2 of them stricken to basically *have an genuine opinion* approximately it (Britain and Holland), and that they are strongly against it and say there's no scientific earnings. i'm from Europe and that i've got in no way heard approximately foreskin infections different than throughout the time of circumcision talks. and how annoying do you think of that's to peel a foreskin to bathe below it? lots easier than cleansing a vagina, i will inform you.

YES. The thing that appears to be lacking from the entire discusion is the FACT that circumcision alters the sensory system of the child. How is that glossed over? Circumcision is nerve damage cutting off about 20000 fine touch and stretch sensing nerve endings and removing a source of pleasure from the male FOR LIFE. This is 2/3 of the total pleasure source amputated! This is nerves, blood vessels, protective covering and pleasure zones taken away from a human before the human can experience this. The dynamics and function and pleasure from sex and masturbation of the penis is harmed for good.

The infection thing is part myth part bad medical advice. Boys that are natural should not have their foreskin touched by others. The US medical advice was to pull it back and scrub with soap. That causes problems including infections. Natural boys really have no problems if you don't retract THEIR foreskin. The truth is that the urinary tract is less likely to become infected in infancy if the foreskin is not cut off or prematurely retracted and is allowed to protect the penis as Nature intended. Infant boys are EASIER to care for when they are natural (intact). The foreskin does not retract until late childhood or even puberty, so you do nothing special, just wipe the outside of his penis clean and leave it alone. Furthermore, to prevent painful and bleeding erections later in life, doctors are now commonly leaving more skin behind- in a cut boy this means you may have to push the left over skin back at every diaper change and clean beneath it to prevent it from adhering or infecting. The very thing that mother's think they avoid by circumcising!

Well, it's a doctor's duty to inform the patient (or in this case, the parents) about medical procedures they choose to undergo, which includes the pros and cons.

Absolutely! Too many think that chopping bits off their sons is the best thing to do. I think people need to be educated about how an intact penis is *not* a health risk. They also need to be informed on how to care for it - many intact boys end up with infections because of well-meaning but ill-informed parents forcing the foreskin back.

i think that's the responsibility of the expecting parent, to do research on things like that. especially if shes having a boy. look it up online, in books, talk to family and friends. its a decision that needs t be made before the big day, to avoid any regrets. i had my son circumcised because i felt it was cleaner, and because his father, and i assume most males in my family are. but what im trying to say, is its something that needs to be thought about for a while. as for abortion, im against it to the most part. i understand the reason as for rapes etc. but for those women who just wont wear condoms, and get knocked up and get abortions all the time, its absolutely ridiculous. women should have more common sense than that.

The american pediatric association takes no strong stance wither way. I believe doing Research is the choice of the parent as the choice of circumcision is their choice as well. Many doctors do give out literature stating the facts.

I totally agree with DAWK1723. This person has a fine answer and look, 4 people have already given thumbs down. I really don't think a dr performs a surgery on anyone without giving the pros and cons. A lot of people like to give statistics in here but never copy and paste the source where they got it from. People, if you are giving percentages and stuff, prove where you found it. Thanks.

Our son was circumcised because he was born with an abnormally long foreskin which was very likely to cause problems later in his life.

The doctor who did it said he doesn't recommend circumcision to parents in general and does tell parents all the negative aspects, but said our son's medical need to be circumcised outweighed the negatives.

I think it has become increasingly unpopular and will eventually not be done unless necessary - or maybe also for religious reasons.