circumcision?

Question

how much does it cost to get circumcised (adult) and what steps do you have to go through
also do local hospitals and emergency rooms do it?

Answer 1

Dont bother. Unless there's a medical defect with your foreskin, any other 'reason' is stupid.

Answer 2

Cost really varies by region, insurance, whether the insurance covers it, etc. You're better off asking an office, to be honest.

If you have a tight foreskin or really sensitive head, you can fix that using less painful and much more inexpensive ways:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071213021456AAsfbFc&r=w#F8wrC2S1VTfksfjKU7Fw.rbGZcI_8zgOtdkMw4JCGXLhidgYgynx

Otherwise, make sure you research it well. It's a permanent surgery, meaning you can't go back if you don't end up liking it.

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

Emergency room won't (unless maybe it's an emergency lol), you should see a urologist. You don't say where you live so I can't give you a price but it would be a few hundred to a thousand or more US dollars, depending on the anaesthetic, insurance, and stuff like that.

I don't know why on earth you'd want to get it done, but it's your choice. I hope you've thoroughly researched it cos it can't be undone.

Answer 4

Go see a Urologist. It is no big deal I was cut at 18 and would do it again in a heartbeat! I was done in office (keeps costs down) and was $400 10yrs ago. I made sure my two boys (1&3) were circumcised when they were born!

Answer 5

Just as a doctor and no it use to be in emergemcy rooms not anymore now its just a simple thing done on a daliy bases and when U do it it takes a week to heal or so and when U lose Ur forskin U cant have much fun anymore oh well its ur choice I hopes this helps

Answer 6

An emergency room wont do it. It is elective surgery... but it is simple day surgery.. a doctor could do it in his surgery for example. GP's dont do such things anymore.. was a time when the family doctor did all the operations... now they refer you on. Go and see your GP.

Now.. I don't want to lecture you... but why on earth would you want to have a crcumscision? You will lose some senses straight away and your glans will be considerably less sensitive a lot earlier in life. Your glans will lose its sensitivity as you age.. but why hasten the process?.... enjoy it while it lasts!

Answer 7

Please do more research on this! A lot of adult men who have this done are extremely unhappy with the results. A common comment is that sex before circumcision was like watching a color movie and sex afterwards is like watching a movie in black and white. And if you try it and don't like it, you are stuck -- you can't have it pasted back on.

Answer 8

Don't put yourself thru it! Being uncircumcised rocks!