pros/cons/circumcision?

Answer 1

CIRCUMCISION IS VERY BENEFICIAL, its cleaner and several research bodies have concluded that circumcised men have less risk of contracting STD's such as AIDS-HIV or herpes.

Uncircumcised penises are difficult to keep clean, and more prone to infections and penile cancer, studies have shown.
A circumcised penis is naturally clean and virtually free from urinary infection. You will not have to worry again with careful washing of your penis.

Is it NOT true that the AAP (American Academy of Paediatrics) does not recommend circumcision. They simply say they leave the decision to parents. But recently, and specially after the New Zealand study, the AAP has been discussing if it may be necessary to change their policy and recommend circumcision to all newborns as they used to do, so in the future we may see that the AAP advocates again circumcision.
Have a look at: http://www.baby-health.net/articles/381.html

About STD's:

As I said, several studies carried out by prestigious research bodies have concluded that uncircumcised penises are more prone to infections and contraction of STD's, including AIDS-HIV. Circumcised men have been proved to be up to seven times less likely to be infected than those who are uncircumcised. Have a look at this site: http://icuxbridge.icnetwork.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14095142&method=full&siteid=53340&headline=-circumcision-protects-against-aids--name_page.html

As for women, studies also show that circumcision also protects female partners from AIDS-HIV and other STD's. Browse this article: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/02_08_06.html

About sensitivity of a circumcised penis:

No medical or physiological study has proved that circumcision reduces sensitivity, opposed to common belief. It is completely FALSE that circumcision reduces penis sensitivity. The American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) confirms this on their web site; have a look at: http://www.aap.org/pubed/zzzjzmemh4c.htm

Circumcision is an easy and nowadays *painless* procedure, which has many benefits, and virtually no risks.
Circumcision is NOT an amputation. Circumcision is NOT comparable at all to female circumcision, which is something completely different.

Circumcision rates are INCREASING nowadays, both in the United States and overseas. Many African and South American countries with little circumcision tradition are starting to promote the procedure to help to reduce the AIDS-HIV infection rates.

Finally, this site has a lot of useful and *unbiased* information. Make sure you have a good look: http://www.circinfo.net

Answer 2

Circumcision is a form of jewish evil. No man in my family has ever been circumsized and nobody has ever had a penis infection or any of that stuff bc of not doing it. same is true for everyone else. i am a prince of the hole roman empire who can race my direct lineage back a thousand years, and most of my friends can as well. Nothing like this has ever happened to anyone in their families. with billions of people on earth and penis infection not being a rampant problem within any of these populations, and considering the dangers that can occur, or the loss of sensitive that does always occur, why anyone would do this is insane to me. The cons by far outweigh the pros by landslide.

Answer 3

Ok... if you dont think removal of the covering of the most sensitive part of a male is not damaging, youve got to work on your logic. Circumcision not only removes KNOWN nerves, but removes the lubrication of the glans penis. What happens is what you would imagine to a clitorous that was rubbing against clothing all day and unlubricated. It keratinizes and decreases sexual pleasure. Female circumcision actually more commonly follows male cirvumcision standards. Removal of the labia and clitoral hood possibly. The labia and clitoral hood is the females "foreskin". It is sensitive and keeps everything LUBRICATED. Circumcision is only known in West Africa, Middle east and U.S./Canada. Europe does not circumcise, for it is what they quote "a violation of human rights." The only reason US offers circumcision is a trend starting about a 100 years ago to "prevent masturbation" by killing nerve endings of men for religious reasons of lust. Look up the history. There are not many pros honestly

Answer 4

The only pro would be if you're religious and want it done so it would have religious significance. But if you're not Muslim or Jewish there is no pro, only a lot of cons.

Answer 5

NIH backs circumcision in AIDS fight
Procedure an effective way to stop HIV, says National Institutes of Health
By Robert Bazell
Chief science and health correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 6:10 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2006
Circumcising adult men is an effective way to limit transmission of the virus that causes AIDS. The National Institutes of Health announced today that two clinical trials in Africa have been stopped because an independent monitoring board determined the treatment was so effective that it would be unethical to continue the experiment.

"We now have confirmation — from large, carefully controlled, randomized clinical trials —showing definitively that medically performed circumcision can significantly lower the risk of adult males contracting HIV through heterosexual intercourse," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. "While the initial benefit will be fewer HIV infections in men, ultimately adult male circumcision could lead to fewer infections in women in those areas of the world where HIV is spread primarily through heterosexual intercourse."

The NIH has been sponsoring two trials — one with 5,000 men, ages 15 to 49, in Uganda and a second with 2,784 men, 18-24, in Kenya. Half the men voluntarily underwent circumcision. The men were then monitored for about two years. Far more of the uncircumcised men became infected with HIV.

The studies found that the circumcised men in the Kenyan study were 48 percent less likely to get infected and 53 percent less likely in the Ugandan study.


This finding appears to apply only to heterosexual transmission, which is the main mode of spread in Africa.

Male circumcision is common at birth in the United States. But in sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than half of the world’s almost 40 million HIV-infected people, there are large swaths of populations where male circumcision is rare.

Circumcision is not perfect protection, Fauci stressed. Men who become circumcised must not quit using condoms nor take other risks — and circumcision offers no protection from HIV acquired through anal sex or injection drug use, he noted.

“It’s not a magic bullet, but a potentially important intervention,” agreed Dr. Kevin De Cock of the World Health Organization.

These findings present enormous ethical and policy decisions which have yet to be addressed. But scientists say the reduction of infection is so substantial that the findings cannot be ignored.

© 2006 MSNBC Interactive© 2006 MSNBC InteractiveThe Associated Press contributed to this report.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16184582/

Answer 6

Cons:
--Cuts WAY down on sexual enjoyment for the man due to loss of nerve-rich foreskin.
--causes the glans (head) to develop a keratinized layer to protect from rubbing on clothing, further cutting sensation.
--feels rough for the woman.
--makes masturbation less fun - and less for your partner to play with.
--it hurts when it's done, even if you were too young to remember it
--it looks kind of sad with that scar where the foreskin belongs.
--There is a slight chance of complications. Each year a few baby boys have to have their entire penises amputated and undergo surgery to make them into fake girls. And a few die.

Pros: none that are not fictional
--You can be just as clean if you are uncircumcised. Wash. It's THAT simple.
-- If you're sleeping around, you need to use condoms regardless or you will get diseases.
--And most women are sensible enough not to discriminate against uncut guys. If they do, they are too shallow to bother with.
--Oh, one that may be valid. Some studies have shown a lower rate of cancer of the penis in cut guys, but this cancer is so rare that it's hard to get a good statistical sample. More boys/men die each year from botched circumcisions than from cancer of the penis.
--Recent reports from Africa say that circumcision reduces the risk of AIDS from unprotected hetrosexual activity. This has little relevance to areas of the world where condoms are cheap, readily available, and culturally acceptable. Also, I don't think there was any research done to find if the men who were circumcised (as adults) had fewer sexual partners or even less frequent intercourse because of decreased pleasure.

Answer 7

Pro's are better hygiene,health,comfort,appearance and FAR better sex for both the man and his female partner(s). The cons? well there are none that I can think of. ALL MEN SHOULD BE CIRCUMCISED!

Answer 8

there isn't any pro's unless you suffer from rare complications
cons - less errongoneious skin, yoru penis is scarred, doesn't fucntion that way it was meant too, possbile less pleasure for the girl. alot of peopel from US dont' understand how to clean a normal penis since they have all been mutilating baby penis for so long, therefor they think if it's not cut it's goign to be a problem, its' not, problems are rare. STD/Aids has to do with individual edu/safe sex practices rather then having a penis. Just like any body part, if u don't clean it of course it's going to b dirty, similar to a girls vagina is goin to get nasty if she doesnt clean it. it's done to babies, helpless in their state to make the decision themself if they want to chop their dick up, y it's legal i don't know
and they babies penis is attatched to foreskin still when they cut it, it shouldn't till 5-teens, therfore the penis hasn't developed the way it should

Answer 9

It's pointless barbarism you religious nuts.

Answer 10

BENEFITS OF CIRCUMCISION ACCORDING TO AMERICAN DOCTORS: CIRCUMCISION CURES/PREVENTS -

adhesions, AIDS, backwardness in studies, balanitis, bed wetting, blacks raping whites, bladder cancer, blindness, cancer of the tongue, cervical cancer, chancre, chancroid, chorea, cicatrices, clubfoot, constant crying in infants, convulsions, crossed eyes, curvature of the spine, deafness and dumbness, derangement of the digestive organs, diarrhea, dyspepsia, dysuria, eczema, elephantiasis, enuresis, epilepsy, epithelioma, evil sexual habits (such as masturbation), eye problems, Frequent micturition [urination], gangrene, general nervousness, hernia, hip-joint disease, hystero-epilepsy, impotence, inflammatory thickening, irritability, many neuroses (female circumcision), marasmus, masturbation, masturbation (female circumcision), muscular in-coordination, naevus, neonatal group B streptococcal disease, nerve tension, nervous exhaustion, nervousness, nervous phenomena, neurasthenia, nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia, nocturnal pollutions, nocturnal seminal emissions, oedema, Onanism [masturbation], papillomata, paralysis, paralysis of the bladder, paraphimosis, passion, penile cancer, phimosis, phosphatic calculus, preputial calculi, procreation, prolapse of rectum, prostate cancer, rape, rectum cancer, redundancy (where the prepuce more than covers the glans), restlessness, retention, sand, seminal emissions, separation and divorce, sex, sexual immorality, sexual irritability, simulated hip joint diseases, spinal paralysis, syphilis, the pleasure of sex, tuberculosis, unhappy marriage, urinary and rectal incontinence, urinary tract infections, venereal disease, "among the many benefits of female circumcision is that it will make the clitoris easier for the husband to find", "immunity to nearly all physical and mental illness.", "It is therefore not at all improbable that in many infants who die in convulsions the real cause of death is a long or tight prepuce", "Stallings finds that HIV rates are significantly lower in circumcised women", "the same reasons that apply for the circumcision of males are generally valid when considered for the female"

Answer 11

Pros: 1)It keeps you cleaner down there
2)It looks better
3)It the modern age, everyone does it now

Cons:1)you may be sore for a while
2)you'll have to take a break from sex for awhile

Overall, I think you should go ahead and do it.