Please tell me why you Circumsize your babies?

Question

This is genital mutilation....no 2 ways about it. Don't even try to tell me that baby isn't feeling anything :(

Please, watch this clip. Turn on your speakers...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6584757516627632617&hl=en



I'm wondering how many of you would still cut off a perfectly good peice of your babys body after seeing this is how it's done?...

I don't criticise peoples religious practices.....but I do know that the Bibles New Testament talks about circumcision being banished, along with animal sacrifices etc. However, the Jewish faith stops at the Old Testament, therefore still circumcises. At least during a Brisk(*sp), the proceudre is nothing like what you see in this clip....although I still dissagree 110%

How do you *know* your boys were numbed? We'ere you in the room or did the nurse tell you that "they were fine and never even cried".....BIG FAT BS!!! You're blinded and your stupid theories about infection are ridicuolous. My husband is intact and has NEVER had an infection. My nephew was circ'd and he has infections ALL the time......research before you comment.

Gee, the one that posted in ALL CAPS, sure sounds defensive. If you listened to the clip they are speaking English, so they are from either Canada or the USA. I commend your defensiveness with your thoughts but you don't need to be so rude. You obviously feel the need to justify your actions with an attitude. In fact, the USA is the ONLY country that still performs routine circumcisions on boys. I would like to put this out there:
If you wouldn't circ your baby GIRL then why your baby BOY? Girls have lots of skin and folds to hold infectious diseases...more so then men. We have an entire inner body to our genitalia to hold bacteria. i challenge you to debate that :)

To the one whi is a surgical tech: If that baby couldn't FEEL ANYTHING, then why did the baby scream a blood curdling scream the VERY SECOND that knife touched his ULTRA SENSITIVE penis head?.....and he SCREECHED everytime those scissors scraped his attached foreskin from his penile head. You're absolutely blinded by your brainwashing medical education. You're comment was riciculous and if I could erase it I would.

Answer 1

I won't be circumsing any children I have.

The common infections in intact boys are UTI's and yeast infections. Girls are statistically more likely to get these infections, yet we don't cut them when they are born. The treatment for these infections are the same ones we use on our girls. Also, not retracting the foreskin, helps protect boys from these infections. Unfortunatly, there is a lot of misinformation about intact penis care in the United States. Many parents have been told to retract every time when the correct way to clean a intact baby is to wipe his penis off like a finger. Nothing more. The child himself should be the only one to retract is foreskin!

Also, the rest of the entire world is intact (unless they are circ'd for religious reasons) yet their penis's aren't falling off from infection. Only in the United States will a doctor say you need to circumsize for a UTI.

Answer 2

I did it and I would STILL DO IT after watcing that stupid clip, where do you people find this garbage? I'm a surgical tech in the OR and assist on these daily and sorry but you are full of ****. This is NOT painful to babies, I rarely see a baby cry and the ones that do usually start before the procedure is even started, most do not like to be taken out of their warm blanket and cry because of that. They DO use anesthestics upon the request of the mother. Normally it is not used because it is NOT needed. If you knew the anatomy of the penis of a newborn baby then you would know that there are NO nerve endings in the tip of the penis at this point so they DO NOT feel it. I have yet to see a clip posted by an anti circ person that actually portrays the way a circ is actually done. What country did you get this stupid clip from??? Give me a break.

Sorry but I've been doing this for many years and I since I am standing right over the baby assisting I think my knowledge is a little more accurate then yours seeing as to you don't even know what instruments are used. They don't use a knife and don't use scissors either. Obviously there a few people that have seen it done to their own child that can agree that these videos that you anti circ people continue to post are very misleading and that is not how the procedure is done. My son never cried once and didn't even flinch when the procedure was started, and he didn't even have any pain medication. You may think my answer is ridiculous because you are against it but it is accurate I can tell you that. Maybe you should witness it done first hand instead of watching a botched video on the internet honey.

Answer 3

Okay, yes, it hurts. Thing is, if it's not done, and an infection gets in under that foreskin, he's going to have to have it done anyway, right? Then he'll be old enough to remember it. It's not like you're removing a hand or a foot. A man doesn't need his foreskin to survive, reproduce, or have a normal sex life. In fact, since the majority of boys in the U.S. ARE circumcised, if your son isn't, he'd be subject to locker-room jokes. And you can't say that the possibility of infection isn't there, because it is. Better to just get it over with while the boy is still little enough to forget, than have him possibly go through that as an adult.

Answer 4

I do think that it is wrong in the sense that it is an unnecessary procedure done on a baby, no different than plastic surgery. I do think that most parents who opt to circumcise do not do so with ill intentions, though. I have two sons and neither are circumcised. I would suggest that instead of listening to "a girl" or your mother in law, you do your own research and discuss the issue with the person you have chosen to parent with (your husband) as well as the person you have chosen to be your child's medical provider and make your own informed decision. Right now, NOT circumcising is becoming the norm. The rate is about 50% and is dropping- and the rate of being intact is MUCH higher in countries other than the United States. When I did my research, I found that it is still done today for the primary reason of the father being circumcised and parents wanting them to "match" and/or not wanting children to look different in the locker room. Well, a newborn penis and the penis of a grown man are not going to look similar whehter one or both are circumcised, and by the time they would look similar father and son are not going to be seeing each others penises. I do not think that most children stand around naked in a locker room, either (but I reference the statistics above where right now about 50% of males are circumcised and 50% are not). The other reason is for supposed health benefits. Well, the most often cited study is skewed if you do your research and I always think of it like this- girls are much more prone to infections,b ut instead of altering them at birth, we deal with the situation when/if it arises and without methods that involve such invasive procedures.

Answer 5

I work in a daycare and there were at least two infant boys who were intact who required circumcision by toddler age because that part kept getting infected. After circumcision--they were infection free for good.

In general, religious beliefs aside, it's a preventative measure; when people go to have an operation, the surgeon has to use a knife to cure the patient. It wouldn't make sense to make a fuss over being cut when the end result is for the person's well-being.

And yes, these days they use pain killers during after the procedure.

Answer 6

My husband is circumsized, but we will never do that to our sons. We don't have children yet, but I have already done the research. The only thing, is that females prefer a circumsized penis because it looks nicer. There isn't greater risk for infection, it's not dirty, they don't carry diseases under the foreskin that they wouldn't carry on the rest of their penis. They do not stop the man from urinating, all they have to do is pull the skin back, which they have to hold it to aim anyway, so what's the problem. Same on cleaning, pull it back and clean under it, no big deal. If the man is dirty, then it's because they don't practice proper hygiene, not because they have their foreskin intact.

Answer 7

My boyfriend is Uncircumsized and his mother regrets not having it done. She said she was in and out of the hospital with him up until he was 8 or 9 due to infections because he was un circumsized, he even wanted our son to be circumsized so he wouldnt have to go through the things he went through. That video is completly wrong when they took my son he was gone for 5 min tops and when he came back he was sound asleep and they give them a local anesthetic, like the one you get before they give you your epidural to help numb the spot. Your choice is your choice but im only speaking on behalf of my boyfriend who is uncirumsized and the decision we made to have our son circumsized.

Answer 8

I would have any son of mine circumcised because it is proven to provide a lifetime of health and sexual benefits with no drawbacks.

Don't believe the videos that the anti-circumcision fanatics put on YouTube. Many are heavily edited with fake screams, etc. At least one shows a baby contentedly sucking on his pacifier whilst apparently screaming at the top of his voice! Clearly an impossibility!

Answer 9

Actually circumcision has never been universal among the Jews and less and less are doing it.

Also there are lots of part of the old testament that people don't follow.

The blood would be awful thick in the streets if we stoned people for working on the sabbath.

Answer 10

If I was the parent in that room, I would've stopped the procedure until my baby had proper anesthetic. I've just been through a rough round with my little girl in the hospital...but that was just concerning putting the IV in her arm, hand, other arm, other hand...anyway. This video is just cruel...and it definitely sparks my compassion for that tiny baby. Whenever and wherever that video was made, I sure pray that God comforted that tiny little thing!!