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Circumcision. Is it necessary?

Should I circumsize my child?

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CHUM said:
100% personal choice between you and your wife...

the pros and cons are equal IMO...

whatever you decide will at times be the 'right' decision.....and other times be the 'wrong' decision...

welcome to parenthood :twofinger
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teg916 said:
I'm un-cut; and I have never had any problems keeping it clean. As for getting AIDS I don't think I would rely on a circumsicion to protect me. Seems like your best bet for not getting AIDS would be to not have sex with infected people, or wear a condom if you are not sure.

I don't think I would cut any parts off my body or children's bodies unless I had a very good reason to do so.
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Have you ever run across a woman that objected to your .. uh.. equipment ?


Ok, I realize I'm assuming that you're hetro.. shoot me if you're not :twofinger
 
:facepalm


NOW I done it :cry
 
Do it. That way the kid knows pain from the beginning and realizes that nothing else in life will hurt you or scare you as that first snip.

I think this is the second or third thread about circumcision. I didn't even realize it was that big of a choice to make.

(I got two boys and circumcision wasn't even a choice I thought about. I just checked the box on the form :laughing)
 
I think it is cruel too :x

who the hell thought this should be routine? I mean really? What the hell for
 
:hand anyone making the 'cruelty to newborns' argument...for a few seconds of shrieking and oh noez, pain that he won't even recall, you can significantly cut down the risk of your little bundle of joy spreading around HPV, and subsequently cervical and anal cancers, as well as herpes.

nice work. hell i'm not even going to breed and i took the time to look at this stuff

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/malecircumcision/
 
If you do get it done, make sure the doctor knows what they are doing. There are a few cases out there of botched circumcisions, in which the poor guy was left without a head.
 
asthmodeus said:
you can significantly cut down the risk of your little bundle of joy spreading around HPV, and subsequently cervical and anal cancers, as well as herpes.
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If your infant is giving people genital warts, I'd say that you have bigger problems than whether he's cut or not.
 
Brian_A said:
If you do get it done, make sure the doctor knows what they are doing. There are a few cases out there of botched circumcisions, in which the poor guy was left without a head.
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Yeah, among my other regrets and anxieties; if I had it to do over again, I'd probably pay a rabbi because they get the most practice. (No, we're not Jewish). I don't know that he botched it, on the other hand, I haven't seen either of my sons' junk since they were young enough to need help in the bathtub.

Otherwise, this thread is full of win (Doc and West)!:laughing
 
The first time it's on topic and Melissa is nowhere to be found:laughing
Penis
 
I'm uncut and like most of the rest of the planet never gave it much thought and certainly never had any comments about it - besides the "hoodie" disappears when its time for action anyway :thumbup

When I moved here I was shocked to find how unquestioningly circumcision was accepted :wtf

Its a given that it massively decreases sensitivity :thumbdown

Outside of the US you will struggle to find a single non-religious medical establishment that supports it.

When performed at child birth its done without an anesthetic and while the foreskin is still attached to the glans - so its brutally painful to the newborn. Its typical for medical practitioners outside the US to refuse to perform it until a child is old enough to make an informed decision.
 
I grew up in a culture that ridiculed being uncircumcised. Still does.; so it was a lot of peer pressure to get it done when I was a wee young boy. At the time I hated my parents for not snipping me when I first came out. It was one of the most scariest thing i had to go through but I wanted it done cause there was no way I would have survived the ridicule should my friends and schoolmates have found out. I was about ten years old and that was generally the accepted age of when it gets done where I grew up. It was terrifying.

I'm glad I did it and I still wished that my parents did it when I was baby.
 
I don't think I could a baby through that, social norms or not.

I can't imagine why a woman would care if a guy was cut or not. If everything's all green lights and she suddenly calls it off because an uninvited guest showed up to the party, she's probably doing everyone a favor by not following through.
 
So what's wrong with waiting until your kid is close to puberty before asking if they want the end of their penis cut off?
 
DucatiHoney said:
I don't think I could a baby through that, social norms or not.

I can't imagine why a woman would care if a guy was cut or not.
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Read the cdc link.

Ladies, choosing to do the deed with the dirty uncut masses will increase your odds of HPV, HSV2 and crotch cancers.

Im gonna start spreading the word, and ultimately more legs, once all the sheathed, disease-ridden dog dicks are shunned by the ladies.

:twofinger
 
F4iChic said:
I think it is cruel too :x

who the hell thought this should be routine? I mean really? What the hell for
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Women, mostly, and mostly because they think it looks better.

:laughing

asthmodeus said:
:hand anyone making the 'cruelty to newborns' argument...for a few seconds of shrieking and oh noez, pain that he won't even recall, you can significantly cut down the risk of your little bundle of joy spreading around HPV, and subsequently cervical and anal cancers, as well as herpes.

nice work. hell i'm not even going to breed and i took the time to look at this stuff

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/malecircumcision/
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HPV is rampant anyway, we've all been exposed whether we know it or not, males can't be tested for it (well, there's no approved tests, anyway, just some experimental off label use of existing tests), and the only tests that do exist for women are for a few of the high risk types. Just assume you'll have at least one variant for at least one year of your life, it's a safe bet.

In any case, there's a vaccine that covers the most common types associated with cervical cancer, and simply giving that to young women will do a hell of a lot more good than mutilating genitals. (Also, not shaving your junk is probably more effective, since transmission rates appear to be up now that we're collectively less hairy.)

As for HIV, studies seem to be mixed on that, so that's also a bit of a stretch.

Ooh, found one for you:

Most individuals were found to have asymptomatic HPV infections; more specifically, 94% of the renal transplant patients, 82% of the dialysis patients, and 80% of the healthy controls were positive for HPV DNA. The multiplicity of the HPVs detected was astounding: 20 previously described and 30 putatively new types were identified by cloning and sequencing of 33 samples from 13 individuals. These results demonstrate that normal human skin harbors an array of papillomaviruses, most of them previously unknown.
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Protip: You have HPV.

See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC112445/
 
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