Some of the benefits of circumcision are stretched or eventually proved false. For example, here in America circumcision was started to stop masturbation, prevent wet dreams, bed wetting, penile cancer and other nonsense, which as has been seen, doesn't affect it. Circumcision can leave you in discomfort/pain for about two weeks, but it's recommended that you don't masturbate or have sex for a month after the surgery.
Here's some more information on it, some of which people may find surprising. Circumcision is a traditionally Jewish and Muslim surgery, although it was introduced and encouraged to the Western, developed world (North America and Europe, but especially the USA) as a way to stop masturbation, especially with the help of Dr. Kellogg. (see link 1) However, although scientific studies have discovered that circumcision harms masturbation by up to over 60% (2), needless to say, it doesn’t completely stop masturbation. Many circumcised guys just find it more convenient to use a lube like KY or lotion as a result (3) since the typically moist foreskin (like the eyelids) is not there to rub the head of the penis with (4).
Most developed nations quickly rejected circumcision after noticing its ineffectiveness against masturbation (they were quite religious back then!), and as a result the United States remains the last developed nation doing it to a significant percentage of newborns. (5) This was done as a result of the for-profit American health care system promoting myths about benefits of circumcision (6), such as preventing penile cancer (6a, 6b), preventing HIV (6c, 6d) despite the USA being the developed nation with the highest HIV rates and circumcision rates (6e, 5), and preventing STDs (6d, 6f). As a result, circumcision now brings in hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors and the American health system. (7)
However, circumcision has been becoming less popular as years have passed by. In the 1960s over 90% of guys were circumcised in the USA, now circumcision rates are as low as 14% in some states. (8) More and more parents are discovering that circumcision carries more risks than benefits, and realize that by leaving their sons uncircumcised, their sons have the choice of choosing what they’d like, since the surgery is irreversible (you can't go back if you don't like it or if it goes wrong).
Circumcision risks include the loss of sexual pleasure according to multiple studies (2, 9, 10, 11). Those studies take into effect many sensation points, including the foreskin, and they involve many participants. There have been other studies that claim no difference, but they don’t even take into effect the nerve endings on the foreskin, which as seen in one study, are some of the most sensitive points on the penis (10). One study even found an increase in erectile dysfunction rates after circumcision (10a). In another study, it was found that females ended up reaching orgasm with and preferring uncircumcised males in 9 out of 10 cases (10b). In addition, circumcision is extremely painful on newborns (12, 13, 14), and you risk many bad conditions, such as a buried penis when too much foreskin is removed and limits the size of the penis (15), or adhesions or skin bridges that develop from the head to the shaft when the skin heals after the surgery (16), meatal stenosis [occurs in up to 10% of circumcised males!] when the opening of the penis becomes irritated from too much exposure and rubbing and begins to close up (17), and meatal ulcers (18). All those risks are, of course, not including the possibility of having too much skin removed, which can cause discomfort during erections due to lack of skin to allow the penis to expand, and could consequently cause a hairy penis by pulling pubic hair and skin to the shaft. Often a circumcision scar develops around the penis after circumcision. In addition, circumcision has negative effects on breastfeeding. (18)
To conclude, here is a link that describes the anatomy of the foreskin (19) and the development of the foreskin with infants, a link especially helpful for parents (19a). Ultimately, one survey found that although uncircumcised guys are a bit more satisfied percentage-wise, it’s within the margin of error. (20) The only difference is that those unsatisfied uncircumcised guys can simply get circumcised and end up satisfied either way. If you're cut or uncut and happy, you'll say that side is better. If you got cut later in life, you'll say cut because you had problems with your foreskin before. If you're cut and had something go wrong or wish to have had a choice, then you'll say uncut. One survey found that up to half of circumcised guys wished to have had the choice themselves (as in, been left uncircumcised and they could have chosen to get circumcised if they wished later on in life). That's a huge number. (21) That, along with the risks and negative effects that are being seen more with the help of the Internet, may be what is bringing down circumcision rates.
2007-09-08 01:55:56
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answered by Jorge 7
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answered by Lillie 3
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So far, nothing has been proven. There is no real reason that circumcision is more hygienic or susceptible to infection - and even if it does, that doesn't negate the need to wash, or practice safe sex. There are also said to be some disadvantages - a lot of people who get it done as adults say sex is worse afterwards (although not all) and there can be complications from the surgery. These complications are often more common than the "foreskin problems" that circumcision prevents. sweet stuff is wrong about the STDs - some studies show you have a slightly lower rate of catching them if circumcised (but it's still quite possible), but the rate of giving them to your partner is pretty much the same in all types of men, because most STDs are transmitted through semen.
Apparently recovery takes a long time and hurts, yes.
2007-09-07 23:17:51
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answered by Anonymous
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The percentage of males mutilated by circumcision in the USA is falling, as others have pointed out. It is better to not be mutilated. A complete penis with a foreskin is undamaged. Damaging a penis damages sexual feeling, ability and function. That's why more than 200,000 males are restoring their foreskins, to regain some of the sensitivity/function destroyed by the damage and mutilation that is circumcision. It won't repair the permanent vascular and neural damage, though. Circumcision is a fraud and a hoax. A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright. ERIC
2016-03-18 02:04:37
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answered by Anonymous
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I was circumcised at 18 and can attest to it's merits! Sex is 100% better for both partners. It is cleaner (no smegma), looks better and most importantly it is healthier (circumcised men have a 60% reduction in their chances to acquire STDs and HIV, also foreskin carry the virus that causes cervical cancer in women). Also most women won't even think of giving an uncut guy a BJ!
Does it hurt.....I was done in the Docs office with a local on a Friday and was back in class on Monday! It was a bit sore etc....but well worth it for the lifetime of benefits it affords!
2007-09-08 02:26:51
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answered by Anonymous
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no real benefits unless you are too lazy to wash under the skin or you have a woman who is so superficial that she wont have sex with you because you are natural. I'm intact and would never change it.
Unlike the lies that Beacher say, I have never had a girl say she will not give me oral sex because I am intact, we dont spread AIDS anymore than a cut guy, we do not cause cervical cancer-any woman can get that from a guy who has the right virus for it.
2007-09-08 23:03:33
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answered by darth72au 4
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There are no benefits.
There are many disadvantages. See the links in Jorge's answer.
Of course it hurts. Any time you cut into a nerve-rich tissue, it is extremely painful.
2007-09-08 05:58:04
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answered by Maple 7
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A circumcised penis lowers the risk of developing penile cancer as well as protects it from balanoposthitis i.e. an inflammation of the glans penis and prepuce because it prevents the accumulation of smegma i.e. the secretion of the preputial glands.
2007-09-07 22:57:05
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answered by Anonymous
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There are two reasons to be circumcised. One is for heatlh as it is easier to keep it clean. And the other is religious.
For a while doctors didn't even ask the parents if they wanted their new-born male child circumcised, they just did it automatically.
2007-09-07 23:00:25
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answered by paulaj2006 3
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2016-04-02 17:30:04
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answered by ? 3
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