What does a circumscision do?

Question

and why do people get them

Answer 1

A circumcision is the cutting off of the foreskin of a penis of a male, mainly done to reduce the risk of acquiring an STD later in life. Usually, a circumcision is performed a few moments after birth on a male baby. Sometimes, however, some older males have it done to look more attractive to a female or to also reduce the risk of an STD. Either way, nearly 80% of the United States male population is currently circumcised.

Um...why do I have 4 thumbs down? I said what everyone else said.

Answer 2

Some guys (especially in the USA) don't have a foreskin if it has been removed in a surgery called circumcision. Jews and Muslims circumcise, too.

Here's an illustration that shows the difference:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19093.htm

The one with the foreskin (how boys are born) is not circumcised (it's uncircumcised).

Otherwise, when hard (erect) they can look very much alike, since the foreskin slides down (and slides up and down during sex and masturbation to stimulate the head).
http://www.cirp.org/pages/anat/

Circumcision has become less common, though. 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

Why?

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

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/

Answer 3

Mischele is right. It has little to do with health and everything to do with "culture." The US is the last first-world country to routinely practice male circumcision and they have to use "health reasons" to justify why they do it. But none of the countries where they don't practice circumcision suffer anymore from the things they claim it treats than the US.

Penile cancer is rare in the US, where circumcision is practiced, and it's rare in Denmark, where it isn't practiced. The American Cancer Society already said that penile cancer wasn't enough of a reason to advocate for circumcision to prevent it.

Basically, a lot of men in the US are circumcised, and they want to believe that everything is okay with their stuff so they spin round and round shouting that being circumcised is "cleaner", "better" and "healthier". They are like the fox without a tail. http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/65.html

Answer 4

It removes the foreskin from the head of a penis. In america it's just the 'thing' to do. People say it's more hygenic but really Americans think it's more pleasant looking that way (but they're still ugly anyway). Outside of the U.S. it's common to not be circumcised, so the foreskin is still intact. Basically when the penis is limp, it's kind of tucked in it's own skin - you don't see that little 'mushroom' head on top.

Answer 5

this is in basic terms cultural of direction. That and herd-mentality. observe all of us who's against lady circumcision claims all forms of undesirable issues approximately it- females can on no account have excitement, they would be in discomfort for existence, there are nob reward, and on and on. None of that are genuine of direction. yet they have been instructed those issues, and we don't cut back women persons, so they must be genuine. on the otherhand, they only checklist positives approximately male circumcision- prevents ailment, does not consequence sexual excitement, must be mothers and dads selection, uncut penises are gross etc etc. None of that's genuine, or is thoroughly subjective. yet considering that we do it, there must be a reliable reason. Afterall, 50% of yank mom's can not be incorrect, can they? actually, human beings can locate the shape to justify all forms of atrocities in the event that they easily need too. Slavery, afterall, replaced into seen useful to all in contact at one ingredient as properly. If all ofthese answerers might do a splash learn into the two subject concerns, they might see that MGM is a lot greater horriffic than they ever concept, and that FGM isn't virtually as terrible as they're making it out to be. in this united states of america women persons choose for to get circumcised. Its talked approximately as "elegance gynecology" and "hoodectomy" or "labiaplasty". Its an knowledgeable choose for that grown women persons make approximately there own bodies. Boys deserve an identical- to be left by myself till they could make their own selection. -Neb playstation - I surprisingly much forgot- peo-ple say FGM is undesirable considering that's performed in unhygenic circumstances- yet they might nonetheless oppose it if performed in a medical doctors place of work, so the argument is moot. as properly that, MANY greater boys than females are circumcised in dirt huts with rusty razors all worldwide huge each twelve months! maximum tribes that circumcise females additionally circumcise adult males, yet there are hundreds greater who in basic terms circumcise adult males.

Answer 6

They cut off the forskin (the skin that goes up and over the head of the penis) what this does is help with hygiene and other problems taht can come from uncleanliness

Answer 7

It is a surgical procedure to cut off the foreskin of the penis. It is usually done to an infant. It is done for religious or hygenic reasons.

Answer 8

It makes the penis cleaner, healthier and makes sex 100% better!


BTW-Circumcised at 18!

Answer 9

"they chop off the skin on the tip of a man's dick, so you don't get the skin caught in your teeth........."
lmfao

Answer 10

they chop off the skin on the tip of a man's dick, so you don't get the skin caught in your teeth.........