Poll: What do you think about circumcision?

[AngloDoom]

Okay, how about this though. I'm circumcised, and I don't want to be. It's considered absolutely horrendous to circumcise a female, so why should it be any different to circumcise a male?

Yes, I understand physically, the two operations are very different. But my point is this: you are mutilating a child. Your child very well may not agree with your reasoning for that mutilation when it grows up. So don't cut your kid.

Alright, I got to stop you there. A female circumcision usually is performed to prevent the female from wanting to have sex. In other cases they are to make it impossible for a female to have sex. A male circumcision, while wholly unnecessary, has no negative consequences and is based on either religious practices or tradition from WWI where in the soldiers got circumcisions to prevent their dicks from rotting off when they were waist deep in mud for most days. To compare the two is incredible arrogant and insensitive. You are a dick.

No need to be insulting, fellow-poster-person.

That said, however, female and male circumcision is often done for the same reason: tradition. Many believe this tradition originated from the same logic: both are intended to reduce sexual pleasure during intercourse (as both kinds of circumcision do) as a way of discouraging the individual from lustful thoughts.
Female circumcision often conjures the idea of infibulation - the sewing shut of the vagina after circumcision. This is a minority when it comes to actual female circumcision - it is most often the removal of the clitoral 'hood' - which is very much the same as removing the foreskin of the male. Both contain a lot of nerve-endings and the removal of both reduces sensation.

Don't go around insulting people, that's just plain rude. It's best to be especially prudent when the other person makes some good points, since that just makes you come off as many times worse the insult you threw at them.

 

[PunkRex]

What are the medical benefits?

The main idea seems to be thats its cleaner but as long as you wash daily like a normal person I hear from QI it doesn't make a difference. The times when its really nesessary is when the fore skins to tight (happens alot more then you'd think actually) or infection (happens alot less then you'd think supposedly). Its a fairly usless bit of kit, doesnt make to much of a difference unless its doing damage... like the appendix.

Yeah im circumcised... and it seems I know way more about this then I should...

 

[idarkphoenixi]

It's not that I have a problem with cutting off foreskin,I'm sure there are good arguments both for and against doing it.
But not giving the kid a choice....Well it's just not right. Its like giving him a tatoo, once you do it, theres no going back. At least let them choose.

 

[Knight Templar]

After hearing how horrible it was for a friend that had it done in his late teens, there is no way in Hell I'm making my male child wait that long to be cut.

If you've heard it to be so horrible, why would you want to do it at all?

 

[Knight Templar]

After hearing how horrible it was for a friend that had it done in his late teens, there is no way in Hell I'm making my male child wait that long to be cut.

If you've heard it to be so horrible, why would you want to do it at all?

I didn't mind it when it happened to me as an infant.

That doesn't answer my question.

 

[Cpu46]

To be honest I really don't care one way or the other. I was circumcised, I bear no emotional trauma, and I don't hold it against my parents. In my mind it's better than some other things parents do to their kids.

 

[Dejawesp]

Let the kid do it if he wants to when he gets older. There's no medical benefit to it. People push the sanitation argument but then can't you be arsed to clean your dick like everyone else?

People also push the "reduces the risk of HIV infection argument" but then that's only true if you have unprotected sex and then it just means you catch it a little later

Cosmetic surgery on a newborn is ridiculous and if he wants to have it done he can do it when he is old enough to decide.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Well, I was one of the unfortunate ones whose mother decided to wait until I was old enough to make my own choice... but it didn't go down that way.

I was about 11, I think, when my penis became infected, rather severely I think, I can't remember it 100%, being something I have wished to forget (lol). But anyway, long story short, I had to be circumsized, at age 11. Such excruciating pain I wouldn't wish on anyone. So I believe if someone is going to be circumsized, it is better to do it as a baby or don't do it at all, because from what I've been told (and I can certainly believe it), the pain is tripled when you get older.

I'm speaking from a purely medically beneficial point here, too. It is much cleaner when circumsized and easier to wash.

 

[NastyLeviathan]

I would like to say to the people saying that doctors who circumcise recently born babies due to the parents request be given the death penalty or be charged with bodily harm to stop flipping the fuck out and be sensible. It's an accepted medical procedure, and not everyone who is circumcised is so pissed off that they have no foreskin.

I know that I don't care, and neither do all of my jewish and non jewish friend who are circumcised. Stop crusading for people who don't need it guys. You're being silly.

 

[GaltarDude1138]

I'd honestly rather my penis not look like this (NSFW): http://www.circinfo.com/all_about/abc.html

EDIT: And yes, I know it's a site for 7-10 year olds so their parents don't have to explain why, but that was the first link in Google, alright?

 

[Vicarious Reality]

YOU ARE CUTTING THE SKIN OFF YOUR PENIS

WHAT THE FUCK

 

[Asclepion]

Cut vs. Uncut

 

[Knight Templar]

After hearing how horrible it was for a friend that had it done in his late teens, there is no way in Hell I'm making my male child wait that long to be cut.

If you've heard it to be so horrible, why would you want to do it at all?

I didn't mind it when it happened to me as an infant.

That doesn't answer my question.

You don't know why people get circumcised, and you want me to explain it to you?

Really?

I was asking you why you would get your child circumcised if you think the surgery is so horrific.

Or do you employ every reason anybody has ever had for circumcision? I can't read your mind so I asked.
Would you kindly stop dodging the question and tell why you would decide to put your child through something you considered horrific?

 

[scrambledeggs]

i can understand from a religious point of view of the parent, but until they get older i think the boy/man should decide.
Although...................it does have hygiene benefits and helps against certain infectious bacteria.

Edit: Also, sometimes during sex the foreskin can rip a little so that might be a reason for a man to decide to "snip snip"

I don't know if anyone has replied to you... but it has no affect on bacterial infection and it is widely regarded that sex is better with a foreskin than without because your head isn't exposed to rubbing all day so you have more nerve endings there. If you don't believe me google it. Just thought i'd inform you.

 

[scrambledeggs]

YOU ARE CUTTING THE SKIN OFF YOUR PENIS

WHAT THE FUCK

hahah so true, so funny.