I think that if you haven’t nalready done it you should not do it. I had my son circumcised when he nwas born within the first 24 hours because we were encouraged to do so nby the medical staff and now wish that I had not. It’s unnecessary. God ngives our children the physical shape they need in life to survive. Why nalter that?

No blade!! I ndid a lot of research before Amari was born, and determined that there nis no medical reason to put a newborn through this procedure. My brothern had SERIOUS bleeding and other complications when he was a baby,n so I had another reason to avoid the blade. I think that, unless you nhave a religious obligation to do so, circumcision is completely nunnecessary and will only cause (potential) harm to a helpless newborn nchild.

I wonder how men who are not circumcised feel….do they wish their parents had choose to take care of it for them.nWhen they took my lil guy I asked my higher power to take over and protect him…and he was A-Okay

I’ve heard of a nmany cases of grown men deciding to undergo the procedure. I’m SURE nthat they would have rather had it done as a newborn.

An uncircumcised penis has nalot of extra meat (for lack of a better word), & requires ample ncleaning. If it isn’t cleaned thoroughly it can carry germs that nnegatively impact the vagina.

I know someone that was not nand he’s been fine uncircumcised….I agree that it is not medically nnecessary, however if you choose not to circumcise your son, you must nmake it a number one priority to teach him early on the importance of nkeeping himself clean and taking the extra time to do so. The foreskin nis a place that harbors a lot of bacteria.

a wide majority of these “reasons” are bullshit that simply revolve around the idea that not circumcising is simply easier. u00a0To say a baby is going to suffer PTSD over his circumcision event is laughable. u00a0If anything birth itself would then become undesirable. Breastfeeding fails only if the mother gives up trying. u00a0Apart from that, no argument is made that it somehow interrupts this process. u00a0All in all, this seems like a shot against circumcision masquerading as an u00a0unbiased look at the argument.

All the non-circumcised people I know in my life have absolutely no qualms about it and are glad to have complete genitalia (about 4-5 people).

We did not experience any of the complications mentioned here. I personally agreed to it to avoid the germs that collect in the foreskin and to avoid my son having to consider removing it as an adult. I heard that is excruciating. But to each his own. A penis is a penis, skin or no skin.u00a0

All the people that act like the foreskin is dirty have no clue what they are talking about.u00a0 I don’t mean to be rude or anything I just want to get people to think.u00a0 Have anybody here ever hear of an uncircumcised man that has to shove tampons up his foreskin?u00a0 We don’t circumcised females and there is no reason to circumcise males.u00a0

I say you should do it only within the same week of u00a0his birth.You must also research the doctor who you may choose to do the procedure, first. I held my son’s hand as it was performed. The doctor was very precise and it was over fairly quickly,surely less time than it takes to pierce a baby girl’s ears.The doctor even showed me a tiny ringlet of very thin skin after. he said he wanted me to see that it was only extra skin and nothing more. Caring for his wound was not that difficult and not really painful for him either and it also seemed to heal faster than his navel.A lot of these reasons not to do it are unfounded and false. It is true that God made us how we are but isn’t safe to also say that he created circumcision as well? Our heavenly father did not make us perfect and so he can create ways to correct some imperfections right? This procedure has been done for centuries. I am sure there are isolated cases of u00a0the procedure gone wrong but in those cases do you think the parents took a little time to really know who the doctor is performing such a delicate surgery on their child?Every doctor should care about patients and not just making money but we know that is not always the case. My son is almost 6 yrs old now and he is certainly healthy and is doing well. Congrats to you on becoming a father. Peace.n

Cleanliness? 3-5 seconds in the daily shower suffice. Nearly all supposed health drawbacks of having foreskin vanish if a man either is religious about condom use, or simply remains faithful to one partner.

The moving foreskin on the penis is intended to make vaginal intercourse more enjoyable for both genders. It is much easier to do foreplay on an intact male than on a cut one. The foreskin makes possible the safest sex of all, the hand job. It greatly facilitates masturbation which, I believe, makes males more civil when they interact with the fair sex.

There are circumcised men who find sex boring, or who simply cannot perform at all. This is especially true after age 40 or so. American medicine refuses to investigate whether circumcision is correlated with PE and ED. I know of no clinical examination of a stratified random sample of American penises, with a view to assessing the frequency of circumcision harm.

Circumcision spread among middle class English speaking Christians, because of a widespread belief that men were too horny for their own good, and for the good of their societies.  Circumcision was believed to reduce male sexual desire, a good thing, and thus to reduce infidelity, having more children than one could afford, consorting with prostitutes, date rape, marital rape, etc. Circumcision was also believed to relieve mothers from having to monitor the preputial sack hygiene of their sons. These concerns faded as the 20th century progressed, and English speaking countries gradually gave up RIC. Except the USA, giving up circumcision makes young fathers experience a deep insecurity.

I am a baby boomer who grew up in the midwest. I felt very weird about having an unaltered penis, especially given that my parents and my doctor said nothing about it, even though I was different from my father and brothers. Nobody knew what to say in those days of the American Foreskin Holocaust grounding the Empire of the Bald Penis.

But once I finished high school, nobody ever looked at my penis in a locker room or such. I married a woman who had heaps of sexual experience with uncut men before meeting me. I am not odd but incredibly lucky and I think my wife is too. I am now in my 60s, and nearly everything I feel when I pay my marital respects to my Missus, I feel thanks to tender bits I would lack if my penis were bald like nearly all other men of my place and time. The tip of the foreskin and the frenulum are the nec plus ultra of male sexuality.

 You circumcised your son to “avoid my son having to consider removing it as an adult”? Why should he have to consider it? It is extremely rare that the forescin HAS to be removed in an adult male. Why do it to an infant to prevent something that most likely will never happen?

By the way, breast cancer in females is much more common than any serious disease of the foreskin. By the same reasoning, why not removing the breasts of your baby daughter to avoid her having breast cancer? Sounds silly? Well, that’s because it is!

Regarding the oh-so-horrible germs: Don’t you people WASH? But cutting off a completely healthy and fully functional body part of a defenseless infant is so much easier….or what? Besides, the female genitalia produce much more “cheese” than the intact males. Why not circumcise your baby daughter?

And finally: A circumcision cannot be reversed! What if your son would have liked his foreskin? It is HIS BODY and therefore HIS CHOICE. Often I hear it mentioned that “it is personal decision”. Damn right! It’s the decision of the owner of the foreskin and noone else’s!

It’s no more important than teaching your kid to clean everywhere else….why do people have to obsess over a normal male body part….It’s ridiculous!

Men and women are equally responsible for their hygiene.  To suggest that men are the only responsible parties is stupid.  Women carry just as many “germs” as men!  It’s so ridiculous.

It’s unbelievable that a doctor would show a mom a “piece of skin” and tell her that this is all it is, just so unnecessary after whacking it off a perfectly normal infant.  OMG…the statement about circumcision being “created” by God….is well, is not safe to say, please. The foreskin has many functions and is NOT merely extra skin…that is a total lie, and your doctor lied to you.  The natural foreskin is there for a reason, and every little boy is born with one, and if he isn’t….he has a BIRTH DEFECT  and that is a fact….look it up! Genital cutting (circumcision) is not a “fix” for anything, it is a robbery.  Babies can’t make the decision to alter their normal body and parents have NO right to make such a permanent decision for their baby.  It is completely NOT necessary and amounts to a vain way to make a little baby look like an adult thinks he should,  it’s called cosmetic surgery and has no place where a perfectly normal, healthy baby is concerned!  I wish parents would do the required research on this before they  have children….you really should watch the video “An Elephant in the Hospital” by Ryan McCallister. He has a page called “NotJust Skin” and there you can get the education you desperately need.  by the way, did you know that hospitals actually sell those “useless” little baby boy foreskins to cosmetic companies and research facilities for BIG money?  NO?  I thought so.

You are actually just as misinformed as the other poster.  Please do some research!!!!

Wow, that is the worst rationalization I have ever heard for unnecessarily cutting off a functional part of your child’s sexual anatomy.  Too bad your son had no higher power protecting him….no, that was YOUR job.. Poor baby!

well that is the point…..those men who you are referring to had the right to change their body because they were adults…babies have no rights it seems!

I am not a fan of circumcision.  The US outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM) in 1997 because it is an inhumane act – but that was not soon enough to save me from it, so I speak from experience.  I have learned quite a bit due to my own circumcision trauma.  

Why male cutting endures is due in part to 1) monetary profits – both immediate costs and then the sales of the pristine human tissue, plus subsequent need for medical treatment when circumcision “goes bad” which is not all that rarely.  Circumcision is a profit center in U.S. hospitals, most OB/GYN and pediatric offices.

Circumcision has also endured due to 2) its ability to teach oppressive political lessons to the population – lessons such as “Do not question authority”, “You have no voice”, “You are powerless”, “Somebody might come and get you and hurt you at any time, so be very afraid”, “Get them before they get you again”, and so on.  I do not see as coincidence, the fact that the only three cultures that circumcise their young are at war in the Middle East:  Jews, English-speaking Christians and Muslims.  All three groups have been bullied, emotionally and socially blackmailed, into treating their male children inhumanely.

A child held down and cut against his will emerges from the cruel battle with a variety of feelings – big feelings.  It makes a caricature of him – or her.  Anger, rage, fear, anxiety, neuroses.  

I would love to live in a world where people welcome babies with love and protection rather than attacking them with knives.  I would like to see how it feels in that kind of world, a world where we all feel safe from harm. 

Breastfeeding fails for all kinds of reasons, and circumcision can be one of them. It sounds like you want to accept circumcision as being something that you always thought it to be instead of seeing it for the barbaric cultural ritual that it is.

P Hempstead, you need to do some more research.  You’re repeating old wives tales.

The inner mucosal surface of the foreskin exudes two enzymes, langerin and lysozime.  These enzymes destroy bacteria and keep the inner surfaces safe and clean.  Circumcised males lose this protection and actually have more pathogens on their member.

No, you should not. There is no medical need to do it, and if your son chooses to be circumcised as an adult, it is his decision to make. Let him make the decision for himself. It isn’t worth risking his life for something that has no medical need. All mammals are born with foreskins, only in the human male (and in some cultures the female) is it considered a birth defect.

Actually, it doesn’t have any more germs than an uncircumcised vagina.

Actually, neurologists have PROVEN that the cortisol levels in infants during circumcision flood and cause the same kinds of permanent neurological changes that are seen in patients who suffer from PTSD.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1093.x/abstract

And, as far as the breast feeding fallacy you stated, there are multiple reasons why circumcision interferes with a healthy breast feeding relationship between mother and child, including but not limited to: the child’s reaction to the trauma is often sleeping more than normal, which disrupts the regular feeding cycle, the child distrusts the parent and is unable to relax to the point of achieving proper latching and nursing, and the child experiences physical discomfort in the genital region that is exacerbated by most breast feeding positions.

there is no such thing as “extra” skin on a healthy newborn. More than 100 infant boys die in the USA each year due to circumcision complications and many many many more men grow up with permanent and life altering complications, including (but not limited to) painful erections, lack of sensitivity, abnormal scar tissue, etc…

Doing it on a child that young only increases the risk that they will suffer a cardiological event or hemorrhage and that the anesthesia cannot be given fully.

My intact husband is perfectly happy that he was left intact.

There isn’t even a religious reason to do it. What gives you the right to have part of your child removed in the name of any religion? Why can’t he have the right to make that choice for himself?

Parents should not have the right to inflict genital modification on their children.  They are not allowed to  genitally modify girls.  Baby boys need  protection from sexual abuse, whether it is sodomy or circumcision.  I was cut as a baby, by a doctor who made a lot of money from it; no other reason, and it has badly damaged my sex life, to the extent that I am no longer able to orgasm during intercourse.  My son was born in more enlightened times, and is intact and thankful.  The foreskin is a highly sensitive part of the penis, not a useless piece of skin there to make the doctors richer.  It also makes for a smoother action in intercourse, and is much better for the woman.

As a child, I was ashamed of my penis because I hadn’t been circumcised like the other boys. I was teased about it. However, as an adult, I am so grateful my parents didn’t have that procedure performed on me. The reasons listed in your post are all very valid reasons not to circumcise. If your son is unfortunate enough to be teased early in life, you can certainly help him through that. Trust me! He will thank you later.

Please be wise and do NOT circumcise. The great American tip off, is a great American rip off! http://www.circumcisioninsanity.com

“… to each his own.” That’s exactly why it should not be done to babies.

“A penis is a penis, skin or no skin.” you might as well say “An eye is an eye, lid or no lid.”

“to avoid my son having to consider removing it as an adult.” I still have mine. I have never for one moment considered removing it. Why on earth should I? Why should your son?

How on earth do you turn cutting off (the best) part into “taking care of it”? All the intact men I know would do violence to anyone who tried to “take care of it for them”.

But a much higher proportion of cut men wish it hadn’t been.

“There are circumcised men who find sex boring, or who simply cannot perform at all. This is especially true after age 40 or so.” 
I know, I’m one of them.

“American medicine refuses to investigate whether circumcision is
correlated with PE and ED. I know of no clinical examination of a
stratified random sample of American penises, with a view to assessing
the frequency of circumcision harm.”
They don’t want to kill the myths that make them a lot of money.

New research has shown that facts 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, and 23 are false. just saying.

Please provide source for this comment?

PTSD is “laughable”? you fuckin piece of ….! I am exactly a male who is suffering PTSD over circumcision and i hate my parents for it. bastard

aww stfu u piece of ….!

stupid bastard.. you will suffer from ur decision and your son will suffer, too! just tell him that you mutilated him without any good reason, that´ll do the job

Where are your valid sources? You haven’t provided any so why should we accept what you say?

False. The foreskin is not ” a piece of skin” but an important, unique body part. All of the reasons the author gives are true and backed up with research-something you have failed to provide. Additionally:

“Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you be circumcised, Christ will be of no advantage to you.” – Gal 5:2

“And even those who advocate circumcision don’t really keep the whole
law. They only want you to be circumcised so they can brag about it and
claim you as their disciples.” – Gal 6:13

“And I testify again to every male who receives circumcision, that he is
in debt to keep the whole Law. You who do so have been severed from
Christ…you have fallen from grace.” – Gal 5:3

“As God has called each man, in this manner let him walk. And thus I
command in all the churches. Was any man called in the circumcision [Old
Covenant]? Let him not try to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been
called in the uncircumcision [New Covenant in Christ]? Let him not be
circumcised! Circumcision is nothing. And uncircumcision is nothing but
the keeping of the commandments of God. Let each man remain in that
condition in which he was called.” – 1 Cor. 7:17

This is just stupid. Any man who is angry that he was not circumcised can have the procedure done later. The reverse is not true. You should have left your son alone and let him make the choice himself-it’s his penis, not yours.

It’s not the parents job to “take care of”. The only person who can choose is the owner of the penis as an adult. If he is intact and unhappy he can always have himself circumcised but circumcision is permanent-the 10 to 20 thousand nerve endings the foreskin contains are gone forever when it is removed. It is possible to regain coverage by stretching the remaining skin, but that is not the same.

Better they have the choice as an adult and can do research and receive proper pain medication. Infants don’t have those options. The idea that newborn circumcision is somehow less bad is completely false.

No, you should not circumcise your son. It is his penis and should be his choice as an adult. Also he has the human right to bodily integrity-the right thing to do is respect this right and leave his penis alone.

I actually agree. I had an ex husband with an intact penis. I had utis on a constant basis. He was very clean. I’d see him pull the skin an wash. Yet still had this problem. After divorce I still have a healthy sex life an have never had uti. I wonder y. Hmm. Maybe his penis wasn’t so clean after all. I personally believe it is something that you are born with but women may suffer from your intact parts. Though im a future mom who is still searching out on if I should circumcise my son.