Circumcision?

Question

Can someone tell me what method of circumcision would prouduce the best looking results? Also, I'm looking for having my son done as high and tight as possible.. Thanks.

Answer 1

I suppose "high and tight" is not too bad as long as his penis is never going to get any bigger than it is at the time he is cut. Otherwise leave him some skin to grow into!

Before you do this to your son, please watch this video and decide if this is the way you want to welcome your child into the world: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=352478&fr=ybr_sbc This is a real child having part of his penis cut off! If you are too sensitive to watch it, then please believe that your son is too sensitive to endure it.

NOBODY has the right to mutilate another person's body when that person is too young to give consent unless there is a medical reason that can't wait until adulthood to be fixed. So, yes, if the foreskin has a cancerous growth on it (extremely rare), chop it off regardless of age. But if the foreskin is healthy, parents and religious/hospital personnel have no business messing with it.

To permanently alter a boy's genitals because YOU think it looks cuter is seriously sick! I assume that you are not going to look at him in a sexual way -- at least I hope not! -- so why should the sexual allure of his package matter to you? Morally it's not your choice to make for another person. And many of us think that a butchered penis is not "cute" at all.

The cleanliness thing is garbage. 85% of the men in the world have foreskins, and nearly all of them manage to keep clean with nothing more complicated than soap and water. And if you think your son is going to go to Africa and have unprotected sex with HIV-positive prostitutes, you should educate him, not mutilate him.

Answer 2

There is no method of circumcision that will give the best appearance, as the penis looks best uncircumcised (because it's designed to be that way, by God or natural selection as you choose). "High and tight" may be appealing TO YOU, but it is somewhat unsettling that you would alter your son's penis to suit your sexual tastes; Remember you are your son's MOTHER, NOT HIS FUTURE WIFE/GIRLFRIEND, who is/are the people who will be interacting with or admiring his penis in a sexual way. I was circumsized as an infant in 1986 because my parents were ignorant and the doctors then unethically told them "that's that we're supposed to do," it was done high and tight, and I can tell you by experience that TIGHT IS BAD, and I needed to stretch the skin on my penis significantly to comfortably allow a full erection and range of movement (by the way, high is better than low, but both are terribly harmful and give no benefits whatsoever, as so many have already shown with good data; as far as aestetics, he and his future wife/girlfriend(s) should be the ones to determine what will be the most pleasing look for his penis. And almost no uncircumcized guy would EVER choose to have his foreskin cut off, and the few who do call it "the biggest mistake of their lives" quite frequently)
I must say I'm proud of the vast majority of people who've responded against circumcision. This is a great improvement over the last time I was on Answers a few months ago when the response was pretty evenly split.

How would you feel if some people you don't even know yet began debating whether or not they should cut off your clitoris hood? This would be the exact same thing, but perhaps less physiologically harmful. You would not want someone else making that decision for you.

If you know most uncircumcized men do not choose to become circumcized, why would you force your son into a state you can rightly know he would not choose to subject himself to? That is inconsiderate and unloving.

And as far as religions go, Islam and Judaism are the only two religions that expect it (Christianity is against it, despite the fact that many Christians violate their faith's rules and do it anyway).

Please, rethink this and realize that harm you would do to your son for merely your own aestetic appeal. Unnecessary circumcision is unthinkable and should appall everyone who even hears of it.

Answer 3

All the methods have their problems. But I think the Gomco Clamp is the most commonly used with the Plastibell growing in popularity.

But Overall Circumcision is loosing favor. It is becoming less socially acceptable to do so. A poll on MSNBC.com:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19296194/

The "High and Tight" is the worst type of circumcision. They are the men that get sexual dysfunction from being circumcised. It pulls pubic hair up on to the shaft, and pulls the testies forward. Usually causes painful erections in adult males. In infant it usually results in buried/trapped penis.

I just wouldn't do it. Not a single medical association endorses it. If for nothing else I have known a couple people that had to get it redone cuz they weren't satisfied with the results, so what did they really save their son from?

Answer 4

Are you serious? This is absurd! You are thinking about cosmetic surgery on a newborn's genitals! Why not give him any choice about how it will look? And isn't how it feels more important than how it looks?

About "high and tight" - even if it looks good as a baby and is done like that, when he grows he will not have enough skin. Babies need loose skin to grow into. Otherwise he will end up with painful, smaller erections as an adult, possibly curved and/or hairy.

Answer 5

Although some say that a high and tight circumcision would look best, the small size of his organ makes it difficult to accurately remove the perfect amount of skin. Keep in mind the following risk if too muck skin is removed.

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

Otherwise, keep in mind that whether he's loosely or tightly cut, or even not circumcised (the foreskin pulls back during an erection) it's going to look the same when erect, and frankly that's when sex becomes a part.

On the other hand, consider the advantages of leaving him uncircumcised. Circumcision has become less common, and there's a multitude of reasons why. Anything from sexual pleasure to it being his choice.

The Japanese don't circumcise, but so does the rest of the developed world. The USA is the only one doing it to newborns without medical/religious need. However, it's becoming less common here, too. Read below, and you'll probably see why they don't circumcise and why it's becoming less common here.

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

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 6

I'm going to have to agree with everyone else here, although, at least you realize that this is a COSMETIC procedure and I guess your looking for the cosmetic result you like the best. But still.... it's your SON'S penis, not yours. And it is true that those men who are done "high and tight" as infants grow up to have penile problems- painful erections, hairy shafts from scrotal skin being pulled onto the shaft, even bleeding and erectile disfunction. Is that somthing you want to sentence your son to just so his penis "looks good"? Genitals are ugly- female genitals are ugly, and nobody's cutting them up. Leave him as god made him and if he wants to get cut when he grows up he can choose the cosmetic result that HE likes best. -Neb

Answer 7

Well there is no actual way to have a circumsision to make the penis look better. It is a mutallation of the boys body, what would happen if somone thought that chopping off your clitoris was good for you and did it to you when you were born.

It is the same comparison.

Answer 8

The best-looking result would be to NOT chop off part of your son's genitals.

Answer 9

Seek help before your son is born so you don't get the chance to mutilate him.
Personally circumcised penises look bad to me, dried up and scarred.
It's sad what you Americans do to your children.
You can check out these pics of mutilated penises here. it's quite graphic
http://www.circumstitions.com/Restric/Botched3sc.html

Answer 10

Why don't you have the "doctor" practice by cutting little bits out of YOUR gear...Your welcome.

It will do you just as much good as it would your son. It will eliminate those flappy labia and there will be much less fishy smell.

While you are in the hospital anyway please get yourself fixed.