Circumcision Vs piercing ears?

Question

Mother, what is your opinion. Male circumcision must be for all boys, but piercing ears of girls must be a choice of her when she is older?

Answer 1

Most male circumcisions are done for medical reasons these days other than spiritual reasons. It prevents bacterial infections left in the inner flaps of the foreskin. If you can manage to keep his penis and foreskin clean daily, then you don't have to get it circumcized. The only problem is that its more painful to do when they get older. As for girls, many parents choose for them to get their ears pierced...its the American norm to differentiate them from boy, especially when they're babies. I chose to get her ears pierced...I had mine done when I was her age. When gets older, she can chose to keep them, or let them close. Until then, I make the decisions. I hope this helps!

Answer 2

Because the tow have NOTHING to do with eachother. If the girl doesn't want her ears peirced then all she has to do is take them out and they will go back to normal. When you circumcised a baby boy he CAN NEVER GET THAT BACK! It's is completly different. Plus when you peirce a girls ears it doesn't ruin her sex life. I am restoring my foreskin. And sex was great being circumcised. but I never knew that sex was meant to be MUCH MUCH better. I had no idea circumcision ruinded my sex life. It's horrible. I would want my child to exsperience sex the way he is sapposed to. There is only one thing that ear peircing a circumcsion have in common and that's there ARE NO MEDICAL BENIFITS of either. Being cut won't do anything for you. Circumcision and ear peircing are very very different and I can't believe that people would actually compare the two. They are opposite. Ear peircing is not genital altering surgery. Circumcision is. -Connor

Answer 3

Moms are weird.

Circumcision and pierced ears are both "the norm", so culturally either is fine. Circumcision is a much less complicated procedure for infants than adults - so if it's going to be done it's best done then. Most people consider it a hygeine thing, so maybe that's their reasoning.

Plus, ear rings can be ripped out damaging the ear, or expensive ear rings lost. Little girls are more likely to lose things or get a torn ear than an older girl.

There is nothing to lose or fragile to injure on a penis.

Answer 4

When you have your ears pierced, it is very minor. They may be 'permanent holes' - I had my ears pierced at 13 and haven't worn earings since I was a teenager - but all I have is two tiny dots on my ears which I forget are there, they do not impinge upon my life at all. You are making a tiny hole not subtracting something.

Circumcision is unnecessary and barbaric. You remove what should grow into 15 square inches of sensitive tissue with lots of nerve endings, you take something away that the boy may grow up wishing you hadn't, you alter his sexual sensation and the way he experiences sex for the rest of his life, and that is hardly a minor thing. The two are completely different and it it ridiculous to even compare them.

Would you say it was ok if our society suddenly said that all girls should have their labia or clitoral hoods removed, since they are (seen as) unattractive, unnecessary and difficult to clean so they should be removed soon after birth?
Would you be happy if this had been done to you?
Would you say this was a normal and acceptable surgery for all American girl infants to go through?
Would you do this to your own little girl? Or would you consider it wrong?

Think very carefully about it. This is the female equivalent of circumcision. Personally it would have radically altered the way I experience sex, for the worse. I have very sensitive labia and can nearly orgasm form having them touched. It is the same for many men with their foreskins. Circumcision is genital mutilation which has been made socially acceptable and it shouldn't be.

Ear piercing... I don't think you should pierce the ears of small children, I was a teenager when I had mine done so my Mum let me, but they are totally different things on a completely different scale. Hell, I had my ears done with a piercing gun and I didn't feel it at all. I don't think either should be done to anyone younger than their teenage years or until they are old enough to choose for themselves, but hell, if I had a choice, ear piercing is nothing compared to circumcison.

Answer 5

I agree boys must be circumcised, and girls should not have pierced ears until they are older. All babies put things in their mouths. If the back should come off the earring, she might end up with the sharp pointy earring and back in her mouth. Not good.
Girls and their mothers should jointly decide about piercing later on. I think 10 is the right age, no younger.

Answer 6

As far as I knew male circumcision was the parents choice at birth, not a law. Just like piercing your kids ears is the parents choice to wait or not.
Seems there are better things to be getting upset about, if you have a boy don't circumcise him if it bugs you, but whether or not other people circumcise as a standard is really not your business.

Answer 7

Both are unnecessary, cosmetic procedures should be left to the individual's decision. My 13-year-old daughter has not yet chosen to pierce her ears. And why do you think all boys should be circumcised? Here in CA, most newborn boys are left intact.
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Answer 8

Male circumcision is the choice of the parents and so is ear piercing until they are old enough to make their own decision

Answer 9

I say wait till their old enough to ask for their ears pierced, that way you know they want it and can take care of their ears on their own.

Also they may throw it back in your face when you say no to tattoos and more extreme piercings!

Answer 10

My mom got my ears pierced when I was 3 months old. I actually thought they looked cute on me and I'm glad I got it done when I was a baby because then I wasn't scared and when I was in elementary school I wouldn't feel the peer pressure to get them pierced.