Would you circumcize your son? why?

Question

Is it covered by insurance? Please say your country if not USA...

Answer 1

Yes, that way he is the same as my husband. Dont want the little boy thinking he's different.
USA
Not sure about insurance, Even if its not its a very minimal procedure and isn't very costly.

Edit - This is the same thing I said to the lady who decided to rant about the answers you got about circumcision, after your question.

Even at a young age, they do look slightly different, and even once they start growing up, they'll remember I'm sure what daddy looked like. I dated a boy, who said his father and everyone he knew was circumcised, and he always felt different growing up, he wouldn't even change in the locker room.

If you dont think your son thinking he is different will affect him, then leave him the way it is. I just know, that it bothered my ex bf, and this is when he was 17. Most girls are quite bothered by it as well, since its what they are used to. Yes more boys are becoming uncircumcised now, but statistically its more like 50-50%. You can get biased information on either side. You should read information from both sides.
Boys growing up have a hard enough time all ready.
Besides Its the choice of the parent.

Answer 2

I live in California, I am circumcised. My parents did it because it was common practice at the time, but I don't think they'd do it now. The arguments for doing it are falling apart. It's elective surgery, has all the risks of surgery, removes a structure that millions of years of evolution has proved is useful and protective. Cutting off a foreskin changes one's entire sexual future, and cutting anything off anyone should only be done with informed consent, only available after adulthood. Infant circumcision also rips apart the glans and foreskin, which are attached at birth. From the above I am sure you can guess I would not circumcise my son if I had one. I advised my sisters not to circumcise their sons.

Answer 3

No.

It reduces Sensitivity. They are finding out it takes away an area that cecrets things to prevent certain infections and increase recovery time. Let him decide on his own,.. but I already have known people to get Circumcized as an Adult.

The gunho people that say they did it [as an adult] and it's great are hired actors for Doctors. The actual men to go through it are depressed and very much regretful of their move and can give detailed problems,.. includeing they have infections and problems they did not before.

When they do research it's very lopsided,.. like for their Circumcized verse Uncircumsized they select Premmies that will have health issues their entire lives and who could not be circumcized. When they ask women about men they would be with, they go to teenage girls who get a health lesson then asked if they would be with the infected person.

Those things drive me nuts and really don't matter. It's going to have to be personal experience and one's own choice what to do. Hopefully he would talk to truthful people if such a subject would arise.

There are other things that some cultures remove from humans based on personal believes. Removing healthy things just because you do not understand them is not a smart method of operation. Every cut and every surgery has risk. As time goes on Organs that were once thought to be pointless are being found to obviously have some functions which get you past a point and without your life expectancy become so many years or is reduced by so many years.

P.S. In the US as information and smear campaigns on both sides have been spreading it has gone from a massive majority being Circumsized to the majority being uncircumcized. So Statisticly if you wanted to go by the " be like everyone else" you would have to be about 30-40% circumcized and 70-60% uncircumcized. Maybe statistics aren't the best basis for these choices. But by what others are suggesting.. UnCircumcized would lean more towards normal if he was born today in the US.

Answer 4

From the USA, not circumcised and I did not circumcise my son and don't plan on ever circumcising any future sons.

It's an unnecessary prodedure and I believe it causes harm. The foreskin plays an important function in infancy, protecting the glans from all the urine and feces. If you don't believe me, google meatal stenosis. It's a complication that only happens to circumcised boys, where the urinary tract narrows from the irritation from the urine and feces. It always plays an imporant role in sexuality, providing the penis with mobile skin and tons of sensitive nerve endings.

Also, it's not my body to modify cosmetically. I wouldn't pierce my son's penis just because I like genital piercings, so why is it ok to circumcise him?

Answer 5

No I wouldn't. I think it might be covered privately here in Australia but not under Medicare (unless it's medical) and it's actually banned in public hospitals in most states. There are many reasons why I wouldn't, mostly being that it's someone else's penis and their choice, a lot of pain and usually done without anaesthetic, and a lot of risks. All the reasons like "health and hygiene" trotted out by the people above are myths; they don't know what they are talking about, there is nothing dirty or dangerous about being left intact.

Answer 6

I'm against infant circumcision. By leaving your son uncircumcised, if he's not satisfied with it he can always get cut and end up satisfied in the end. One survey found that about half of circumcised guys would have preferred to had made the decision themselves:
http://www.jackinworld.com/qow/q15.html

Circumcision has become less common. Circumcision rates were as high as 90% back in the 1960s and 1970s (that's partly why today's adults are so... brainwashed, I supposed you could say, about thinking that circumcision is better) but they have fallen to as low as 14% in some states. Here are the statistics:
http://www.cirp.org/library/statistics/USA/staterates2004/

The USA is the last developed nation doing it to a large number of newborns without religious or medical needs. (Europeans, Latin Americans, Japanese, and most Australians, Canadians, and Asians don't circumcise):
http://www.circumstitions.com/Maps.html

Christianity doesn't ask for circumcision, either. In fact, sections of the Bible are harsh against circumcision, and the Catholic Church even condemned the surgery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_in_the_Bible#In_Christianity

In a medical study, it was found that females are more likely to hit orgasm with an uncircumcised man:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/60750.html

The lubricated foreskin (on the inside... like your eyelids) slides up and down during sex and masturbation to stimulate the head (which is why you don't hear of uncircumcised guys needing lube to masturbate).
http://www.cirp.org/pages/anat/

Studies have found that circumcision reduces sensitivity (this article also mentions how it has lost popularity in the USA in recent times):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,285532,00.html

And despite being more sensitive, uncircumcised guys still last in the same six minute range (average) that circumcised guys do:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2005.00070.x

Circumcision makes masturbation more difficult:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06646.x

Which makes sense, that's how circumcision was promoted in the USA:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/27-03-2006/77873-circumcision-0

Increases erectile dysfunction rates:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14979200&dopt=Abstract%7C

If too much skin is removed in circumcision, it can make the penis smaller since the penis needs some skin to expand during an erection:
http://drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=1125
http://www.altermd.com/Penis%20and%20Scrotal%20Surgery/buried_penis.htm

There's pain involved, often why doctors don't want you in the room when it's done:
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9712/23/circumcision.anesthetic/
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/1f21e.htm
(you can search online for a circumcision video, too)

Circumcision does not completely stop penile cancer. The American Cancer Society has already confirmed the myth that circumcision = no cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_2X_Can_penile_cancer_be_prevented_35.asp

If circumcision did stop penile cancer, then penile cancer would not be more common in the USA (most circumcised adults) than in some European nations, where circumcision is not practiced other than for medical/religious reasons.
http://www.circumstitions.com/Cancer.html

And a new study found that circumcision does not reduce your chances to get HIV/AIDS. Unlike other studies, this one was done in a developed nation; the USA.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22096758/

Of course, there are other risks associated, but those are typically the ones due to surgery. You can research it more here:
http://shorl.com/deprygyfrykiny
http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/circumcision/against-circumcision.html

PS. As far as cleaning goes, it's really simple. For the first years in life the foreskin doesn't pull back. That prevents stuff like poo/fecal matter from touching the head. Later on all it takes it 5 to 10 seconds to pull the foreskin back and rub the head; it even feels good.
http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/circumcision/protect-uncircson.html

Answer 7

No baby cutting! Ick.

My son is intact as Mother nature made all males. The foreskin is not a birth defect. Most of the world's men are not circumcised.

Answer 8

no. As a person who wasn't circumsized until I was 20, I greatly regret having it done. Most people who reccommend circumcisions are men who already had one done to them as a child. They have no idea what they are missing. Sex has never been the same for, and unfortunatly, I find the act brutal, painful and ugly.

Also

There is no proof for this, but I swear I never had premature ejaculation until the circ. Also, I had trouble feeling certain things, such as when I am done urinating, as circumcisions cause the head to lose much of it's sensation.

Answer 9

Not unless he was born with a medical defect of his foreskin. I'm not circumsized myself and have NEVER had an infection or problem down there. That's because i WASH.
If I have a son one day, I'll teach him to take proper care of his intact genitals. Its not difficult.
And also I wouldnt want to inflict such pain on a newborn baby, for the price of reduced sexual pleasure.

Answer 10

My First and only Son was circumcised at Birth and it was covered in full by the Insurance. USA. Many reasons why such as the Father was also circumcised, cleaner, tradition/religion and of course my personal preferances...

Answer 11

No way in hell. I wouldnt circumsize my daughter, so why would i get someone to cut of a part of my sons genitalia?
God made little boys perfect, not needing surgery to 'correct' him!!
And its absolutley rubbish about it being cleaner - you teach your child to wash their hands after they use the toilet, whats so hard about teaching you son to wash himself?
I wouldnt think an elective operation would be covered by insurance - im in Australia.
Its just cruel, why do that to him?