What is your opinion on circumcision?

Question

and if you prefer circumcised want you circumcise your baby boy?

Answer 1

I did a ton of research, as soon as I found out he was a boy, to prepare for this decision. I don't believe in cutting off a piece of my son just because it it the "norm" or any other stupid reason, I wanted to make an informed decicion. After much research, I decided not to have my son cut. This is why:

Myth 1: It is cleaner.
Truth: It is actually easier to clean then a cut penis. The skin acts like a barrier from germs. All that must be done is wash it like a finger, and do not force the skin back. Once it goes back on its own, simply pull it back gently, wash it, and let the skin cover it again. Infections come form parents not cleaning it, and they will have just as many problems if it is cut.

Myth 2: It protects the baby from UTI
Truth: It actually has the opposite effect. A cut penis is far more likely to get infected. When you remove the skin, the head is exposed to the urine and poop in the diaper, and it is easier for germs to enter. Removing the forskin is like removing the outer lips of the female vagina. They are what protect the tender, delicate skin underneath from infection and must be kept clean. Girls have to be taught how to clean their areas, so a boy should be as well. The skin under the forskin is like that of the skin under the fingernail. If the nail is there like it is supposed to be, the skin underneath stays soft. If the nail comes off, tha skin gets harder to protect its self.

Myth 3: It looks better cut.
This is an opinion. When the skin is pulled back, it looks the same as a cut one. It is actually bigger because it has more skin.

Myth 4: Uncut boys get teased in the locker room.
Truth: The ratio of cut to uncut has changed in the recent years, and there are currently more boys being left alone then boys being cut. So, if anyone is getting teased, it is the circumsized boys.

Myth 5: It can lead to problem later in life, and the adult circumsision.
Truth: The only reason this happens is natural. Some men's forskin does not grow large enough for their penis. In these men, even if they were cut, they would still need surgery to properly align the existing skin, and maybe even have more cut because there is not as much for the doctor to work with.

Myth 6: It does not hurt, and they do not remember.
They may not remember actually being cut, but they see the result every day for the rest of their life. Forskin can not ever grow back, and can not be reattached. And for those who don't think it hurts, would you cut your penis, or even finger for that matter? I don't think so. Just because he may not cry, does not mean he does not hurt.

Truth: Sex is better for uncut men.
When the skin is cut to be removed, there are hundreds of nerve ending that are destroyed in the process. This leads to lower sensations in the cut men.

The other one that gets me is to look like daddy. Baby boys genitals, cut or un cut look nothing like a grown man. Besides, why would the baby need to look at his daddy anyway.

Answer 2

whether there is no medical reasoning(which is incorrect, a recent study showed men who are circumcized had a lesser chance of contracting HIV) my hubby isn't and honestly, it's disgusting and I found it to be a major turn off, although,eventually, i have somewhat gotten over that. I can't understand why any woman would "not" want to circumcize their child. That foreskin harbors germs and will start to have a stench and as we know, some men, are not going to continually pull back the skin to clean it. I don't see what the big deal is. I had both of my sons circumsized. My hubby is still angry at his mother for not circumsizing him. It made sex uncomfortable for him and because he is 32 , he's scared to get it done now. Why not let the newborn get it done and over with. My baby didn't even cry and it's already healed. Women don't have penises so i suppose that's why some of them think it's ok not to circumcize. I am so happy i did and if i have a 3rd boy it will be circumcision all the way!

Answer 3

i'm no longer likely to assert plenty diverse to what I actual have already reported 1000's of time in YA. There are not any advantages in any respect in circumcision, and a style of unfavourable subject concerns which will upward thrust up from being circumcised. What you may desire to be responsive to approximately circumcision is it is it a nasty mutilation of the human physique. No civilised individual could desire to ever enable this to take place to somebody they declare to love. Circumcision of a boy if as painful as circumcision of a woman - which skill reducing of the clitoris and labia of a woman!. i won't think of why all people could prefer to inflict the two injury and everlasting injury on a baby or the different human. Circumcision is the removing of the (male) foreskin. Uncut or uncircumcised confer with the organic state of the penis the place the whole of the sexual organs are intact. this is as sturdy to be circumcised as this is to decrease off your eyelid so your eye no longer has the protection and lubrication it replaced into designed to have. A male replaced into born with a foreskin for a reason, and it replaced into no longer so it may desire to be decrease off! Circumcised penises are not any air purifier than a organic one - any individual who says so of course has no thought what they are speaking approximately. there's a fool who reported "international wellness employer and the middle of ailment administration choose all men circumcised", yet he's intentionally warping the fact. incredibly the choice is actual - some super advantages of a foreskin a great way outweigh some super advantages of circumcision. basically a terrorist could prefer to inflict such undesirable carnage on yet another human. rather WHO and CDC are no longer in that employer! Circumcision of the male is in basic terms as barbaric and vicious as circumcision of the female. maximum folk would not even evaluate inflicting such injury on a woman, yet interior the u . s . a . it remains an appropriate prepare to do it to a boy. Very unusual. in keeping with risk, in case you're American, you may desire to positioned into persepective that your inhabitants is a tiny share of the international inhabitants and yet it bills for roughly ninety% of the lads that are circumcised. So human beings like SteveX could desire to truly awaken to themselves and see the international for what this is.

Answer 4

I can't agree with what the last poster said, my boyfriend, like most men I have encountered since I live in the UK, is uncircumcised and eternally thankful to his parents for not having his foreskin removed. He is the cleanest man I have ever met - all it takes is for a boy to be taught how to clean himself properly, there is absolutely no more hygiene issue than there is for girls cleaning their labia.

I don't find it disgusting, I find the foreskin beautiful and I am very disappointed when I come across a circumcised man as I feel both he and I have been robbed of something. Circumcised penises are not half as much fun to touch and they look quite strange.

Answer 5

I did it for both my sons. And it was more about health. I know that a man who is not circumcised is more likely to have a spouse who will get cervical cancer. So I am looking out for there future wives.

Answer 6

Uncircumcised I prefer. No way would I submit my child to an unnecessary invasive procedure without their consent. I would leave it and if they really hate it they can get it done when they are an adult. After all it's their penis. Plus, you can't reverse circumcision.

Answer 7

For religious reasons I would have my son circumcised.

Answer 8

I completely agree with Mommy12406. I also did all the research even before I knew what I was having. My husband and I were then able to make an educated decision that we would never have our son circumcised.

Answer 9

My husband and I had our son circumcised. The reasons why we desided to was so when he is older he will look like his dad and in case he has to change in front of other kids his age he will look like everyone else.

Answer 10

There is no medical reason for circumcision.