Why do so many men here who have been circumcised at birth favor circumcising their sons?

Question

This only really seems to be an issue here. In countries like England, Australia, and Canada they used to basically circumcise almost all newborn baby boys. But even though the dads were circumcised, that practice stopped or decreased significantly and keeps on decreasing. But here we hold on to the age of practice of circumcision because we're told how good it is.

I was also born here and have therefore been circumcised. It's not that I ever really minded, but after having been to other parts of the world and doing research on this topic I seriously don't think it's necessary. Why would you subject an infant to all this pain (it is a surgery on a very sensitive part of the body), which has 0 use in the Western world. We're actually cutting off the foreskin, which has many important nerve endings and functions. I sometimes wonder how society would react if we all of a sudden started cutting off female clitoral hoods.

I understand that people make different choices, but the central question here is why we are so much more reluctant to change and want our sons to be circumcised if other countries don't seem to have the same problem? I have previously looked through all the published medical data in the developed world and just don't see the great effect of circumcision despite all the claims. \

Dr. Lisa Masterson has been promoting it on TV here like crazy, but sometimes I wonder why these people don't get circumcised themselves if they're so crazy about circumcision. I bet a lot of cultures around the world think that Dr. Lisa Masterson would look a whole lot better circumcised.

Answer 1

You are absolutely correct. Circumcision is a brutally cruel and highly destructive procedure that removes essential, healthy, vital, nerve rich tissue for no other reason than to make doctors rich,.

If Dr Masterson thinks circumcision is such a good thing, let her step up to the procedure table and submit to circumcision herself.

In fact, she can experience it the same way an infant male does. She would be accosted in her room by strangers, stripped naked, strapped to a procedure table, so she could not writhe and scream in her agony (sounds a bit like rape, does it not? I wonder is she would still be okay with this?) while some hack in a lab coat sliced through the living flesh of her labia and clitoral hood.

There would be no pain reduction off as there is none adequate and safe enough to use on a new born, but there would be a nurse, standing at her head, soothing her howls of agony, and reminding her she is too young to feel that pain.

After she has lived with the ugly scar, the lack of functionality, the mis matched skin, the reduced functionality, perhaps then she could have some credibility to her words.

As for the people who claim they did not want their sons to stand out in the locker room and to look like dad,....anyone could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and excrete a better argument than that.

If some circumcised father wants his son's penis to look like his, then he should buy a foreskin restoration device and restore his own foreskin and leave his son whole, perfect, intact, natural, the way he is born.

I have restored my foreskin after a most unnecessary childhood circumcision. I fought to save my own sons. I am very proud to say in each case, we took the whole baby home.

I changed diapers for years and never once was there a problem in this area.

The whole 'circumcision is cleaner, better, healthier" thing is a myth that has been disproved decades ago. Yet, you are right, those parents who still force this barbaric practice on their non consenting children have their beliefs mired in the dark ages.

Fortunately, as better education spreads, more intelligent parents are understanding they have been duped by the medical profession for years and are shunning the practice.

If you would like to learn more about foreskin restoration, as you said you yourself were altered without consent, please feel free to write to me with your questions.

Hope this helped

Mithras

Answer 2

Male circumcision is becoming much more popular again in the other English speaking countries as well as many other parts of the world. It is proven by many well conducted scientific investigations that circumcision provides a significant degree of protection against several STIs as well as eliminating phimosis, paraphimosis, frenulum breve and balanoposthitis when done in infancy. Sexual satisfaction is not adversely affected. See http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFMen-EN2012.pdf for more information.



So-called female circumcision has no medical benefits and is not comparable to male circumcision.

Answer 3

Circumcision should be a personal choice when the person is old enough to decide for themselves. I was circumcised as a infant and wish I wasn't. Just let it be your son's decision.

Answer 4

I remember discussing this subject with my wife back when my children were born. We decided to go ahead and get it done primarily because we did not want them to stand out in the locker room. Also, I am so I wanted them to be like me. Perhaps not the best of reasons, but I suspect very common ones.

Answer 5

I have no idea actually, but I'm pretty sure that if they were able to feel the pain then they wouldn't do it to their children.

Answer 6

It reduces penile cancer by like 1%... and Stuff.