Isn't it time circumcision ended in our society?

Question

It's done often without anesthesia from what I understand! I don't really believe most Christians are having it done because of covenant. This is mutilation! A boy could DIE from this unnecessary surgical procedure! There are a lot of complications and deformities that can result also. Do we really believe boys are born with some dirty part that has to be removed? Is this about funding???!

Answer 1

Parents SHOULD be made aware of the pros's and con's of circumcision, but in the end it is a personal decision to make, not yours.

Answer 2

Jesus said specifically that it was no longer necessary! Fortunately more and more parents are agreeing that it should not be done.

People are opposed to this barbaric practice because it removes a healthy and functional body part for no good reason. The hygiene and disease arguments for it are just untrue and have repeatedly been shown to be totally unfounded. If you wash an intact penis, it's clean. If you don't wash a cut penis, it's dirty!

Circumcision cuts down on sexual enjoyment for both the man and his partner. There can be serious complications, including having to amputate the whole penis! And for what? So some shallow twit can think it looks cuter? This is something that should never be done to a healthy boy - they are born perfect and should be allowed to remain that way. I hear porn stars are usually cut and shaved and otherwise made into caricatures of a real man, but that's a pretty sick role model to follow!

Answer 3

When it done at the proper time, it is not as dangerous as you portray. They didn't do my grandson at the proper time and waited because the female doctor didn't think it necessary. My grandson had problems with his foreskin breaking out and a lot of pain as a result - they had him circumcised finally out of need, and he has had no problems. I had three boys of my own and four grandkids and a very large family, and I have never witnessed the complications or deformities that you refer to. By the way, my grandfather was 92 years old when he had to be circumcised - again health reasons. Why not get it done on the 8th day after birth and get it over with? Yes, it is still something God sees as a good thing. It was established for an act of separation from the Gentile world. Although, He does not require it for Salvation, many things done in Biblical times carried through for a reason. We will continue the practice.

Answer 4

I am circumcised for medical reasons (at birth) so I would have to say we cannot abolish it all together, there is a place for it. But needlessly going the cut is stupid and dangerous.
Plus the ladies tell me the sensation of a cut one "popping" on the way out is really good so I can't complain now can I?

Answer 5

Circumcision is still done for health reasons. According to the Bible, it was no longer required, because God stated that the circumcision was now from the heart - no gender involved.
However, even then it was still done for cleanliness. No, the procedure cannot kill anyone - anymore than piercing your ears would kill you. Since bacteria breeds and grows in a place where it is dark, warm, and humid, not getting circumcised is a risk due to infection. If anyone becomes deformed from this simple procedure, they went to a quack who needs to be sued.
Moses stated that it should be done for health reasons, as told to him by God - Since God made these bodies, and since these bodies haven't changed much since then, I think he knows what
he's saying. You're making a big deal out of nothing, with all due respect - I'm sure there are more pressing issues you might want to address with your time- this is not one of them, truly.

Answer 6

I'm thankful that it was done, so that all the penises I've encountered in my life were cut. What can I say? I'm a traditionalist. I'm married now so I haven't seen any others in a long time. I don't know what the future holds, but it's still likely that I'll never encounter someone who's not cut.

Since I don't intend to sleep with the very very young, and don't have kids myself, I don't care whether or not it continues. I leave it up to the parents to decide.

Answer 7

I agree, I didn't circumcize my son for those reasons. I think if he is born with it let him be, in addition to what you said. They say it is religious but there have been alot of religious dogma as a result of poor hygiene which we don't have a problem with today.

Answer 8

You are absolutely right, but the religious groups will keep on doing it for centuries, until they finally evolve.

Answer 9

anesthesia can be very dangerous in babies, and swells the penis, and still hurts, and still hurts after.







The “medical” reasons for circumcision are for Doctors to make MONEY!!!
Circumcision is “nothing” compared to other much more terrible things that people do for MONEY, when MONEY is involved EVERYRHING is possible, MONEY is the priority not moral values, not ethics, not health, not wrong or right, not even human life, etc. People are selfish by nature. And that is soooo sad. $$$CASH$$$

MOTHERS, the feelings of mothers who observed the circumcision of their babies. Go here if you have the courage:
http://www.circumcision.org/mothers.htm
They do not remember the pain when they grow up, but I wonder what kind of neurological/emotional damage it does to inflict such severe pain to such a young one!

In the US circumcision started to stop boys from masturbating; they will take much longer to reach the orgasm, and the orgasm will not be as intense, but that will not stop them.
Nowadays the “medical” reasons to circumcision are for Doctors to make MONEY!!!

RELIGION--If God intended boys to not have "skin" He would have made them so.
Also, if you examine the bible, lest just say that is full of terrible things that are considered very illegal nowadays, and many of those terrible things are AGAINST WOMEN. Women, how would you like it if those things get legalized?
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/

HYGIENE--Use a new invention, soap and water!!! Women produce much more “smegma”, all kinds of discharges, wetness, and smells; because of physiologic and anatomical reasons, and how would you feel if they cut your vulva lips??? Women, why don’t you answer my question, are you afraid? Women are more likely to get urinary tract infections and no one suggests we surgically alter them at birth to reduce the risks! Just one of many double standards and laws that always treat men worse.

MEDICAL REASONS--No medical reasons. It is not a birth defect! A extremely small chance of a complication do not justify the removal of the foreskin, if so, why don't we remove the tonsils and the appendix when a child is born, and the chance of complications of the tonsils and the appendix is much greater. And what is even greater is the chance of breast cancer so the best thing to do is to remove the breast glands of young girls or at least remove them at the first sign of trouble without trying any alternative treatments first in order to preserve the breast(women, how do you like it now?). And for infections of all the organs, including female organs, use a new invention called antibiotics. Talking about complications, in fact many baby boys die each year from circumcision and related complications.
EVEN if “TRUE phimosis” occurs, instead of chopping it off like barbarians!, use Conservative Treatments like:
-Topical Medication(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Dilation and Stretching(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Combination treatment(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Preputioplasty is the medical term for plastic surgery of the prepuce or foreskin(many methods).
If you want more detail on Conservative Treatments, go here:
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.circinfo.org/alternatives.html
The foreskin can still be tight even after puberty, and it is natural, not TRUE phimosis.
And now they invented a new reason to make money, the risk of STD in uncircumcised men. Well actually uncircumcised men have more protection, but in practical terms that protection means nothing, because circumcised or not, if you have sex without protection and your partner have an STD you will be infected FOR SURE! That means, it is just one more stupid and desperate reason in order to make money with circumcisions.

SEX--Foreskin actually enhances the sexual experience for men because it constantly moves over the head of the penis causing more friction and pleasure. Men will also lose much sensitivity to the glans if circumcised.
Circumcised men will have to deal with discomfort and dry glans. Uncircumcised men, pull the foreskin back for a day, and see how it feels against your underwear all day, and see what happens. The frenulum is the G SPOT in men.
The foreskin have those functions: protective, erogenous, sensory, and sexual physiologic. After all, why would you want to lose all of those “Meissner corpuscles”, the same nerve complexes which provide fine touch to the fingertips?
It is there for many reasons, that is how a man should be(it is natural).
If women like it better circumcised because it looks better(strange, not natural) or gives them more sexual pleasure(strange, not natural), then too bad, they do not have the right! All men do not like mutilated vulvas, and all men like breasts with nipples, they do not like mutilated breasts, etc, etc, etc, because that is the way those organs are supposed to be, it is natural. Interesting, isn’t?!!!

If that was a common practice to do that to baby girls, all the women would be in a BIG UPROAR about it(and men too!, men are not like women), but it’s ok to mutilate little boys. The great majority of the ones that agree with circumcision are women for their stupid selfish reasons. Even court cases reported in which mother and father fight because the mother wants to mutilate the son, it is always the mother!. You women should be ashamed to that to your son. Men that are not circumcised, will not get circumcised when adults, they would scream, kick, fight and run, if someone tries to mutilate their privates area, just like you women would run too if someone tried to do that to your labia. Men that where circumcised do not realize what they lost because never had one, and most of them that do realize try to justify it so they do not feel bad about it. Many circumcised men feel very bad emotionally because of what was done to them to such a private area.
It is mutilation of defenceless children in the most private spot, genital mutilation.
It is cruel and barbaric.
It is a human rights violation.
It is not the parent’s decision; it is the parent’s decision if they want to abuse him, rape him, or to kill him? It is the parent’s decision to choose the son religion? How can he chose a religion or his believes, if he is just a baby?
I do not even agree that it is ok if an adult man wants to get circumcised. I think it is wrong, because if a man wants to lose a finger, the Doctor can not do that to him. Think about it, think, think. And by the way, adult men that decide to get circumcised, do it because they know most women like it, they just do it to be more accepted by women.
I think it is just like slavery and all other barbaric acts of the past, it was accepted because it was common practice or tradition, everyone accepted slavery without questioning the facts, but it is not accepted anymore in a modern and fair and civilized society. Circumcision must not be allowed, BY LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many other reasons not to do it, check it out:
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.noharmm.org/
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/boydies.html

Answer 10

I suppose you need to imagine the idiot that thought it was a good idea in the first place.