Why would anyone choose to NOT have their son circumcised??

Question

I was honestly curious why anyone would choose not to have their son circumcised. I feel that it is very unattractive not to be and that men who are not circumcised will later be ridiculed by their peers. So why would a parent choose not to have their son circumcised and instead subject them to ridicule?

I honestly feel it should be done purely for cosmetic reasons to every male baby boy born.

What are your guys thoughts on circumcision

Answer 1

I agree 100%. I used to date this guy who wasn't circumsised and when I found out I was forced to break up with him. Those things are ugly before they are tamed and trimmed. What if it was passed on to my children. Yuck.

Answer 2

In Australia, being circumcised is no where near as popular as I believe it is in the states. My Husband is not circumcised and I didn't even give it a second thought when I was first intimate with him. We are now pregnant with our first and if it is a boy, he will not be circumcised... we only discussed this after I saw someone else ask a question about circumcision on here about a month ago. All our conversation consisted of was "we wont have the baby circumcised if it's a boy will we?" ..."no"... "didn't think so". I certainly don't think I will be subjecting my child to ridicule... but then like I said...
Here in Aus it is more common not to be circumcised and I think that it is a societal thing that tell us whether to think it is attractive or not (much like society tells us that skinny is beautiful... even though there are lots of beautiful 'heavier' women out there).

Answer 3

"What if the husband rejects my daughter on their wedding night because she hasn't been circumcised," asks one worried mother.
(http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUPmjsbBS7ci0dIjRL33BR3vvc8A)

Sounds familiar. All men are born with foreskin, get use to it.

I will be a first time father in a few months, it is his penis and he can do what he wants with it.

Can I cut off your labia and hood? There are places that it is consider the healthy and cosmetic choice to do so. The USA is pretty alone on circumcision just to circumcise.

A side note... Today Australia banned circumcision at state hospitals.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22741465-421,00.html

By the way I didn't ever get ridiculed for having a foreskin. The is little anyone can say to I can still be circumcised, but prefer not to be.

Answer 4

This has been asked so many times, I can only imagine what some of the responses are going to be. But since you asked.
I think it's stupid to do, and there's no reason for it, save a server medical condition that would need it( and before you say anything I had a friend with phimosis, all he got told to do was masturbate a a lot, not told to be cut) , and the USA is the only one that still continues to routinely circumcise, and that comically didn't begin until around the Cold War era.

However, even those numbers are becoming lower over the years, it used to be 60%, then 50% and now I believe it's closer to 30%. So as kids grow up, it's no longer going to be such a big deal, because it's just as likely many kids in class aren't going to be circ'ed either. The men in my family aren't, some older then me, some younger then me, none of them have EVER been teased about it, and when asked if they have, said they were never naked with anyone else to even have the opportunity to be made fun of. That, and they have said, they don't care. They understand they are uncircumcised, and they don't really care if someone knows.

It's not like it's something out there everyday to be teased about, seriously, do you think kids walk around whipping their junk out just to see who is cut and who isn't so they can make fun of it?

Key points to remember here;

1. Your son's genitals are not your own genitals, just because you don't like how they look (ew icky foreskin! Really, grow up) doesn't mean you should snip.

2. The foreskin is there for a reason! It serves a purpose! ( http://www.noharmm.org/mothering.htm )

Man, this topic is exhaustive sometimes. Because nothing anyone says is going to change your opinion, so why do you bother to ask the question? To try and get flamed, or to find vindication? Everyone is probably going to get equal thumbs down and thumbs up and in a few weeks we are all going to debate it again.

Answer 5

Because some parents actually care for their children, even if they are boys.

They know there are more important things than what some shallow bimbos find attractive.

85% of the males on earth have complete penises, why would anyone want their sons to be "odd man out"; mutilate him to be one of the 15% minority?

I am "circumcised" but I would love to be complete and I would love to have some jock harass me about it! "What are you starring at; are you jealous half dick? If you look any more you are going to want a taste and I don't have the time."

Perhaps some parents realize that in today's information age their sons will know by the time they are 12 years old that they have been robbed of the five most sensitive areas of their penises and that no area left on a "circumcised" penis compares to what has been cut off. They will know that the glans (head of the penis) is actually the least sensitive area of the penis and that is what is left for a "circumcised" boy to feel pleasure with.(Study published in the British Journal of Urology, April 2007)

Perhaps they don't want to hear the question; "What gave you the right to mutilate my penis?"

Answer 6

Yeah, sure, mandatory circumcision sounds like a GREAT idea! I mean, why on earth would a male be born with a little flap of skin there? It makes MUCH more sense to slice it off for "cosmetic" reasons.

Think about it....only around 50% of male children get circumcised now, so there is not going to be the ridicule that you are so concerned about. The males that are intact will have much more sensitivity to the head of their penis, therefore making sex that much more enjoyable. That, and if a woman would chose to not be around my son because he has an intact penis, well, GOOD RIDDANCE. I don't need someone that shallow with any of my children.

Answer 7

Because it is cosmetic and the human generation managed to survive long before circumcision was invented. Besides, why would I want to alter what nature has determined to be the way something should look? As for being ridiculed by his peers, I doubt it since being circumcised is not done as routinely as you might think. My husband isn't, many of my ex boyfriends weren't. I can't think of any of my close friends/family with boys that had them circumcised, and that's on a quick count around 20 boys under the age of 10. It's also not unattractive to many women.

Answer 8

What about the childs rights? My sons had to have their skin cut back of the head and the pain and suffering went through was hard on them and me, they had to have it done after two as doctors in a lot of places will not do it unless there is a medical reason for it and they are not able to preform it until they are sure it is not going to come back, and that is at the age of 2 , 2 1/2yrs, cosmetic reasons for doing it is just wrong and so is doing just to have it look like dads, what ridicule other guys are not going to say give us a look at you ding dong so I can judge yours against mine.

Answer 9

My husband is not circumcised..and I have no problem with it. I feel if you love somone it doesnt really matter. Would it be the same for women with small breast? Some men find that unattractive and some women choose to get a breast aug. Not everyone gets ridiculed about it.

Answer 10

well other then aesthetic reasons 85% of men loose some feeling where they have the scar. this reason alone should stop people from continuing with this ancient religious practice. They problem is that you are not giving your kid a choice. when he is older and he starts engaging i sexual activity then he should choose. does he want an visialy appealing penis or one that has more feeling.

Answer 11

1. Your aesthetic judgment of men's bodies is conditioned by your experience. If you had never seen a circumcised man in your life, you'd as likely be horrified by that and think it was not cosmetic at all.

2. Removing a healthy, normal, functional part of someone else's body without their express consent is unethical in the extreme (barring the existence of a socially enforced religious mandate where you could justify that the man would be more of a victim if uncut--not of the cosmetic judgment of a few women who figure it's their business, but of moral rejection from his family & society). More than half of boys are uncircumcised in urban educated areas of the US today, so there is no petty concern anymore about "ridicule" of boys by other boys.

3. Male circumcision reduces female sexual pleasure. This is part of the philosophy behind the creation of the practice itself.

4. Circumcision, like any surgery, carries risks, which are not outweighed by the health benefits in most cases. This is related to the ethical concern. It's the golden rule -- I would not want a god-given part of my body, perfected by millennia of evolution, chopped off at my birth because my mother had a bias that it was ugly, thereby risking my genital health and my sexual happiness in adulthood.