Foreskin or not foreskin?

Question

I am pregnant with my first and it is a BOY!!! I am so excited, the only thing is, the father is not in the picture and i do not have a penis soooo.... Should I get him circumcised or not. Most insurance doesn't cover it since there is no longer any really prof it is cleaner or better for them. The cost is kinda high $300+ . I would love to have some pale points of view from those who are and more importantly those who are NOT. Thank you for you help and in site.

Answer 1

keep this in mind



1. you obviously know that lies about circumcisions there is not HIV/AIDS/STI/STDS prevention because you just have to teach you son to clean under the skin thoroughly

2. 80% of the world males are NOT circumcised (american has higher proportions, because of misbeliefs about being circumcised)

3. my profession has NEVER endorsed it only those doctors who have done it for religious will suggest it. Legally we can NOT do it automatically without a direct order from you the parent. (during the 80s doctors would be doing it automatically causing alot of problems (lawsuits), since there are religions that FORBID removal of the foreskin also)

4. really it is your choice after all you are the only parent he will have.

5. i am not circumcised

6. yes alot of sensation is lost from the constant rubbing

Answer 2

i did not circumcise my sons even even with the indisputable fact that my husband is. there are various motives to not circumcise. My sons are actually young infants and intensely chuffed they have been left intact. Neither of them has had a hygiene difficulty. Intact adult adult males get extra sexual excitement and the glans has its organic risk-free practices there. it is not grimy and not demanding to scrub! in certainty, i think of it is purifier because of the fact the glans isn't uncovered consistently. babies do be afflicted by circumcision, of course they are in soreness, especially from the plastibell technique which motives the gentle dermis to steadily die - ouch. and then while they urinate it stings on the uncooked glans, and this is far plenty extra artwork to safeguard than an intact penis (do not pull the exterior back, merely wipe the outdoors). Oh and 10% of circumcised boys bypass directly to enhance a hardship as infants mentioned as meateal stenoisis, the place the urethra (urinary beginning) closes over consistent with the trauma. they want catheters and further surgical treatment to open it up back. this would not take place to intact boys!

Answer 3

I'm circumcised so I guess I would be kinda

biased in my opinion. I can't say I've ever had

a problem being circumcised & I would agree it

is easier to keep clean than an uncircumcised

penis. That being said as long as you make sure

you take the time to properly clean your baby boys

penis right from the start, then teach him how to

keep himself clean when he gets older then the

cleanliness reason is neutral.

There is also a great deal of debate as to whether

a circumcised penis will become less sensitive due

to being rubbed against clothing, whereas the uncut

penis has the foreskin to protect it from friction.

Once again I can't say I have had a problem with lack

of sensitivity with my penis be circumcised, but I can't

really compare it to an uncut penis though.

My best advise to you would be to talk to your family

doctor and see what he/she thinks, and then make

you decision based on medical advise and lastly

if you can afford the medical cost for the surgery.

You can always leave the choice up to you son,

Leave his foreskin intact & if for any reason he wants

to have it removed later in life he can always make that

decision then.



I'm sorry if I could not be more pro or against circumcision

but I hope I helped.



Take care.

Answer 4

I'm glad I wasn't circumcised. At least if I wasn't I'd still have the choice to get it done, but that's never going to happen! My foreskin has never caused me any problems socially or medically, its only ever brought me entertainment and pleasure. If I were you, I'd spend that $300 on clothes and toys for him instead, something he'll appreciate much more than a painful, irreversible and unnecessary cosmetic surgery!



Also by the way, just to refute what a previous answer said about doing it "to fit in", less than 10% of Canadian boys are circumcised nowadays, go figure.

Answer 5

I answered you in N&B and I'm giving you the same answer here.



I think you should leave your son's penis alone.



I am not circumcised, and I have never had a UTI or an STD. My wife is American, and she also likes my foreskin.



None of the men in my family are circumcised and they have never had any problems with cleanliness or infections. I think you will find that the United States is the only country where routine circumcisions are performed for non-religious reasons. And, even here, it is on the decline.



You don't need to do anything special to care for an intact infant. When he gets old enough, the foreskin will retract so he can clean under it. It is very simple. He just needs to clean it when he is showering.

Answer 6

Congratulations on your boy CandyGir. Totally exciting to hear.

Circumcision is totally unnecessary surgery and sadly enough bottom lines as male genital mutilation which is performed primarily in the U.S. for cosmetic reasons and often in the Middle East like Israel and Islamic countries for religious reason. As for the global male population, probably in the area over 80% of human males are not circumcised.

When removing body parts unnecessarily, you always have less in the end. Remember that every part is in the natural design and serves at least one, and usually multiple purposes.



Consider biology and physics to the foreskin and it doesn't take much smarts to realize it's purpose.



I'm thankful to my parents for not tampering with my body and removing any parts when I was a baby. I have natures best designer gear and it works awesome for me with unbelievable feelings.



When we have kids, there's no way that we will have any sons circumcised. They come into life perfect and complete and they will stay that way with us.



If it's done for cosmetic reasons, it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

As for the excuse of cleaner and to prevent infections, I find that offensive to men as being some dirty creature that doesn't know how to wash or shower. With that mentality, Ladies are at higher risk with more places that are hidden and don't open up or slide back, so the false notion about infections is just so old already.



check out this site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIRANs0eX...



At birth the foreskin is bonded to the penis head and won't require any attention or under-cleaning at all until the time is right that nature lets the bond go which is usually close to puberty. With a circumcised boy, everything in the diaper gets on the critical part.

There can be a risk of infection if unknowing parents try to break that bonding by forcing the foreskin back instead of letting nature do her best job of taking care of it.



Hope that gives it, and congratulations again!

Me! :- )

Answer 7

There are so many reasons NOT to circumcise and not one reason in favour of it.



Why not do it? First, it's NOT medically necessary it hasn't been proven to bring any medical benefit. It is the removal of a useful and healthy body part (which, by the way, is the definition of mutilation, whether the proponents of circumcision like it or not). It removes one third of the penile skin and takes with it a lot of nerve endings, which means reduced sensitivity.



But, in my opinion, the most important reason NOT to do it is that it is his body/penis and should therefore be his decision! I do not believe that it is the right of a parent to make this decision. A parent's responsibility is to preserve the integrity of their son's body, not to mutilate it.



I have experienced both intact and cut men and can definitely vouch on the difference in sensitivity! Cut men seem to have very little sensitivity compared with intact men. As a woman, I find sex with an intact man much more pleasurable and natural.



I am the mom of two intact boys. Of course, they have NEVER had any issue with their foreskin, not that I would anticipate any problem, as I said before, it IS a normal and healthy body part.



Please, make your son a favour, leave him whole. Circumcision cannot be undone. If he did want a circumcision later in life (once he knows what it is exactly), HE can decide to have it done.



Check out the attached link about pros and cons and how the procedure is done

Answer 8

I am not in favour of circumcision. I believe it to be a completely unnecessary procedure unless there is an immediate medical reason such as Phimosis (tight foreskin).



The anatomical equivalent of the male foreskin (prepuce) in females is the clitoral hood (also called prepuce) which is the fold of skin that protects the clitoral glans. Some forms of female circumcision – more often called female genital mutilation – wholly or partially remove the clitoral prepuce. I have never understood why female circumcision is considered to be ‘barbaric’ yet there is no outcry over male circumcision.



Most men know that one of the most sensitive parts of the penis is on the underside in the ‘v’ shaped area where the head of the penis meets the shaft. This is known as the ‘frenular delta’. For a picture see this link: http://www.circumstitions.com/Images/Glossary/delta.jpg



Some men consider the frenular delta to be the male ‘g-spot’. During circumcision the frenulum and frenulur delta is often partially removed or damaged leaving scar tissue that is less sensitive and therefore less pleasurable. The head (glans) of the penis also becomes less sensitive over time when the protective sheaf of the foreskin is permanently removed.



Some people claim that circumcision is desirable for health or hygiene reasons. If boys are taught to clean themselves properly there will be no hygiene problem.



The worst arguments of all for circumcision are that it 'looks better' or that the child ‘should look like his Dad’. If all us guys decided that women looked better without p#ssy lips would that make female circumcision ok??? Somehow I don't think so. Cutting a perfectly natural and normal part of a boy's body away for 'aesthetic' reasons is tantamount to child abuse.



There is general consensus amongst child psychologists that it is more important that a child looks like his peers (children his own age) than his father. I did not have my sons circumcised even though I am circumcised.



Check out this question from a devastated Mom about a botched infant circumcision:

https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20081019144324AAITfYZ



Americans tend to assume that the whole world is circumcised and that it is ‘weird’ not to be. In fact in most countries to be un-circumcised is the norm and being circumcised makes you the ‘odd man out’.



New-born circumcision rates have been dropping since they peaked in the 1940’s. Even in the USA - which has a very strong pro-circumcision lobby that churns out its scare campaign about disease and doom with great efficiency - circumcision rates have dropped by nearly 30%.



Australia and New Zealand have shown massive declines while circumcision was never hugely popular in the UK.



The statistics are difficult for an amateur like me to interpret but these should be close to correct. Percentage of new-borns circumcised:



Australia 1940’s (87%) 1973 (70%) 2007 (13%)

USA 1940’s (85%) 1979 (64%) 2004 (57%)

United Kingdom 1930’s (35%) 1979 (12%) 2000 (3%)

Canada 1970’s (67%) 1997 (20%) 2005 (9%)

New Zealand 1940’s (95%) 1995 (<1%)



The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has examined recent claims that circumcision reduces the rate of urinary tract infections, reduces the risk of acquisition of HIV and reduces the risk of penile cancer and STILL concluded that... ‘Review of the literature in relation to risks and benefits shows there is no evidence of benefit outweighing harm for circumcision as a routine procedure in the neonate.’

Check out the policy statement on ‘Circumcision’ in the link below

http://racp.edu.au/page/health-policy-and-advocacy/paediatrics-and-child-health



http://www.cirp.org

http://www.nocirc.org/

http://www.nocirc.org/publish/11-HIV.pdf

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/23/1192941062383.html

http://www.circumstitions.com

Answer 9

I wouldn't recommend it, circumcision is not medically necessary and is no longer recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics or similar organisations, rates are dropping in the USA. And in other Western countries it's barely done at all (UK, Canada, Australia). I wouldn't do it if I had the son. As well as being unnecessary things can go wrong and it also takes away sexual sensation. As you note it is expensive and there are lots of better things you can do for your baby with that money! My boyfriend isn't circumcised and is very happy about it and has never had a foreskin problem. This is the case for most guys.



Congrats and good luck on the son!



Harriet

Answer 10

Hi, I had answered on your other post too but wanted to say something that I felt was very important. I DO have 3 boys. Children are our most valuable and precious gift. IMHO I would circumcise. But this is what I felt was important to say:

Do not watch that ignorant stupid youtube video. The very word 'youtube' should send up red flags. This is not a representation of a typical circumcision. I have seen people post videos on that thing of abusing animals and beating up other people... it is a place where people post things to shock others, not a true representation of fact. Please speak with your OB and pediatrician on this matter, don't just look on here. It is not the horror that people make it out to be. When you come on here you are literally getting opinions. It amazes me how SOME of the people against circumcision will almost outright lie to get their point heard. I looked at your answers from yesterday and a lot of the woman against it don't even have boys, yet claim to know oh so much about it. Or it is opinions from people who have never even been circed saying how horrific it is and uneducated those of us who do it are. Also, a lot of what is claimed to be fact, isn't. The AAP doesn't condone circs, they just don't stand behind it as an absolute. They are neither for nor against it.

As far as insurance companies go: there is a lot they don't cover. I used to think that vaccinations were standard no matter where you lived, but when we moved from NY to another state our kids needed the HepA shot, it was not required in NY. I thought I would get a jump on it and have it done but our insurance didn't cover it because in the state we lived in it was 'elective'. They told me to wait to get to the new state so it would be covered..with the same exact insurance we moved and I went to have it done in the new state and it was paid for because it was required by the state we lived in. It happened again with my sons hearing and vision at a well check, the doctor (and I)found those tests important, yet the insurance companies out here deem them elective so they don't cover it. Luckily I am a seasoned enough parent to know how important those tests are and didn't go by what the insurance would cover and $188 later we discovered that my youngest had hearing loss. We wouldn't have ever known if we hadn't done what I would consider a preventative test. So, the insurance co was not looking at the well being of my child, they were only doing the minimum that they HAD to. So, don't go off of whether the insurance company considers it elective or not. It is not elective because it is unneccesary, it is elective because if they can get out of paying for it they will.

I would seriously suggest talking to men around you and getting their opinions on it. Don't look for it from strangers here. You can look up some of what some of these people say and see that it is a lie or exaggeration. This is your lil one, do what YOU feel is best. You will make many life long impacting decisions for your son before he becomes an adult. You need to always go with what you think is best and trust in it. God gave him to you specifically for a reason... He must trust that you will make the right decisions for your son. Congrats on your lil one!! A mother/son bond is like no other that I have ever known, lol.

I hope this helped some!! :)

Answer 11

Do not do it unless you are actually having a religion that requires you to do so. Just make sure when he is old enough like say 12 to 14 that he begin to try pulling his foreskin back so as to be able to wash the insides. Do not actually try to force open the foreskin totally when he is young or at any point of time cos that would really hurt and may damage his penis. Normally, guys that do not get circumsised will have their foreskin pulled back by the age of about 15. Congratulations to your first born! Cheers! =)

Answer 12

Take it from someone who knows. I was circumcised when I was 19, and it was the best thing I ever did. Most people don't know the difference, as most people who are cut, it was done at birth, and those uncut don't know. Perhaps you might want to leave the decision to your son. Hey, congratulations on the forthcoming new arrival, I hope it all goes well for you.

Answer 13

Circumcision is the amputation of the foreskin, not extra skin but an integral part of the penis; measuring 15 square inches in an adult and accounting for over half the penile skin, lots of specialised nerve endings and the most sensitive parts of the penis.

Not one major medical organisation in the world recommends routine infant circumcision anymore. In Australia, where I live and Canada the rates have fallen to round 10% of newborn males. So a circumcised boy is very much in the minority. The US is the last western nation still doing this to about 50% of its newborn males but even there rates are falling and many insurance companies no longer cover it, because it is deemed a waste of money. Sadly they often still don't use anaesthetic either and when they do it’s risky and ineffective. It's child abuse, pure and simple.

The penis forms as one organ and at birth the foreskin is usually fused to the glans like a fingernail to its finger. So there is no cavity for germs and dirt to collect in until it separates naturally later; sometimes not till puberty or later. Only the boy himself should retract it and then he can be taught to skin back and rinse with plain water regularly.

Misguided attempts to retract too early, often by doctors and nurses, are the main cause of damage to boys’ foreskins and the real main reason for childhood circumcisions.

To perform a neo-natal circumcision the circumciser has to rip the foreskin away from the glans with forceps. Then the foreskin is either cut away or clamped until it falls off. Both methods cause the baby extreme pain and his raw glans and wound sting every time he urinates. It's quite common for the raw edges of the cut foreskin to fuse to the raw glans during the healing process, forming skin bridges or tags. These complications and other more serious ones are often not found till puberty and do not show up in complication statistics.

More serious complications, though not common are immediate. Some babies lose their penis to infection, bleed profusely (often because they are haemophiliac) or even die each year.

The claimed benefits of circumcision are a beat up (based on flawed studies) and don't really exist but medical authorities have worked out that the overall complication rate is higher than all the benefits claimed by the pro-cutting advocates, even though those claims are much exagerated or just wromg. One by one the claims are disproved but the pro-cutting zealots come up with more and keep quoting the old ones despite the evidence against them. For example you have more chance of dying from a circumcision or losing your penis from infection than from penile cancer. The rate of penile cancer is higher in the largely-circumcised USA than in European countries where less than 1% of the male population is circumcised. Plus circumcised men have been found to have penile cancer, mostly on the scar. (Remember this is a very rare disease in intact or circumcised men).

A very recent study in New Zealand followed a cohort of boys through life from birth to age 32. About 40% were circumcised. The intact males had a slightly lower rate of sexually transmitted infections than the circumcised but there was no significant difference.

Using surgery to mutilate the genitals instead of washing in a modern western society makes no sense. Normal intact male genitals are, if anything, easier to wash than female ones and the same substance, smegma collects in the genital folds of both sexes. A few intact males have problems with tight foreskin but this is only a tiny proportion of intact males. The condition can now be almost always treated with simple stretching exercises, sometimes in combination with a steroid cream that speeds up the process. However doctors who do not value the preservation of the foreskin often still trot out circumcision as a first-option treatment in the US and even some other countries.

I am circumcised and hate it. I wish I'd been given the chance to choose for myself. Intact men can choose to get cut at any time in their life, though most have no desire to do so. The internet has shown that many men resent being circumcised. It's just not something that most of us talk about a lot, even to our parents.

Your son will grow up with many intact friends and there is every chance he will resent this unnecessary cosmetic surgery. If he does grow up like Connor (who has also answered this question), hating it, it will be very hard to justify to him when medical advice throughout the world says there is no medical advantage to the procedure.

Geoff

Answer 14

Well you have to be careful when you are checking for a doctors opinion. If your doctor is older chances are he will tell you to circumcise your son, because when he was going through med school thats what they told you to do and they told him that it was cleaner and healthier etc. Well now a days, all the new research is saying that circumcision does NOTHING health wise and there is no need for it. No medical association in the WORLD reccomends it. It is a cosmetic procedure. It's for looks only, not for medical benifits. So be careful on who you talk to about that. Also note that if you do have an uncircumised son that you NEVER EVER EVER pull back his foreskin to clean under it. NEVER. I don't care if the surgeon general tells you to. A lot of doctors tell patients to do that with their baby boy and it's WRONG. When your son is born his foreskin is attached to his head just like your fingernail is attached to your finger. Pulling back the foreskin at a young age causes tearing/scarring/adhesions/phismosis/and it causes infections. So if you chose not to circumcise your son then just gently wipe the outside like you would a finger. And he is clean.

Now circumsion removes the most important part of the penis. Because without the foreskin the penis does not funtion normaly. Removing the foreskin means removing 20,000+ nerve endings from your son's penis. That's a lot of sensitivity. Also when a guy is circumcised his head rubbs against his pants and his underwear and this makes his head calous over and become dried out and tough. this further dammages nerve endings. I can tell you that I know this is true because I am circumised and I am restoring my foreskin and my penis is becomeing more and more sensitive. You do not want to deprive your son of a good sex life and you want to make sure he can enjoy sex to the fullest. Also circumisino removes nerve endings and blood vessels making premature ejaculation and early erectile dysfuntion more prone in circumised males.

Circumsision only reduces a boys chance of getting an infections or UTI within the first year of life. but I have studied the statistics and your son would be 4 times (if not more) more likley to get an infection from his circumision wound then he would not being circumcised. I have had 6 UTI's in my life and believe me, being circumcised would hurt a million times more than any infection ever could. Plus your son is very unlikley to get and infection anyways. and even if he did get one, doctors have great anti-biotics. They made the symptoms of my infections go away within 24 hours. Females are 5 times more likley to get an infection ove males and we don't cut up their genitals for it. Keep that in mind. Doctors give them medicine instead of reccomending cutting them up. If you wouldn't cut your baby girl, why would you cut your baby boy? If your baby girl is more likley to get an infection.

There have been studies that say boys who are circumcised are 60% less likley to contract and STD of HIV. These studies were preformed in Africa in countries like Uganda and Kenya. These studies were done over a period of 2 months. The studies were cut short because after two months the study already proved the point the study was trying to get at. Well they took around 4,000 African males and circumcised 50% of them. Now keep in mind that a circumcision wound takes 4-6 weeks to heal enough for sexual activity and may take up to 3 months for fully heal. 2 months after 50% of the African males were circumcised they tested each group for HIV. The uncircumcised males showed a much higher HIV rate then the circumcised ones. Well durring the time the whole study was taken place the circumcised males couldn't contract HIV because they weren't having sex because of their wound. So that study is completly flawed and it's amazing that people are still stupid enough to believe all of it.

Being circumcised does not reduce your son's chances of contracting any STD, including HIV. Plus why don't you teach your son to be a civilized human being and not to sleep around, and teach him he needs to use condoms. That seems like a better idea then chopping off half of his penis. (circumcision removes 33-55% of penile skin).

Circumcision is not cleaner either. Is a circumcised penis easier to clean? Yes. But is it cleaner? No. All it takes is your son to spend 30 extra seconds in the shower and he is just as clean as any cut male.

Also another factor in this is your son's personal rights. It's his penis is it not? Therefore it should only be his choice to decide something this big. If he wants to remove a part of his genitals then I think he is the only person that can decide that for himself. I hate my mother for circumcising me. It's my body not hers. Who said she had a right to do anything to it? This should be your son's choice when he is older. If he wants to get circumcised later in life then it will be his decision. Just as it should be.

Answer 15

I am against it, and would advise you not to. The number of boys being circumcised depends greatly on where you live- in some areas of the south west, it is below 30%. Nationwide, it is about 50%. I don't think you should circumcise just based on what other parents are doing, just because a majority of people choose to do something doesn't make it right. Change can start with you. :) And remember, circumcision will affect your son for his entire life- hopefully 70 or more years. He'll spend less than a decade of that in school locker rooms. Kids will tease for all sorts of reasons, its not a good reason to get your kid genital surgery. (what if he has red hair? big ears? a funny birthmark?)



Here's some more info to help you with this decision-



First, only 50% of boys nationwide are circumcised. You may actually find that your son is in the minority in the locker room if you cut him. (I don't advocate making this decision on those grounds, but if you were leaning towards doing it because you don't want him to be "different", you should know that the boys will be pretty evenly split between cut and intact and no one will think intact is weird)



Second, it is VERY painful to an infant. Most doctors still don't use any anesthesia, those that do rarely offer adequate anesthesia because the only stuff that works is not safe enough to use in infants for such a "minor" procedure. Further, some of the pain meds offered to infants aren't even recommended for use on babies! Further, some doctors argue that it has been done "for thousands of years" without anesthetic- what they neglect to tell you is that a medical circumcision can take over 15 minutes to complete. A Jewish ritual circumcision, by contrast, takes under 60 seconds to complete (and the bay is given wine) Here is some info on the pain.....

http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/

http://www.circumcision.org/response.htm

http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/taddio2... (note in this one that even infants offered pain meds for the procedure showed signs of post traumatic stress!)



You should also know that studies have shown that the most sensitive parts of the male anatomy of ON the foreskin- NOT the head of the penis. By cutting off the foreskin, you remove a mans most erogenous genital tissue. Here is a study about that.... (note that other studies found no difference, but they neglected to test the sensitivity of the foreskin- they only tested the glans penis of intact and cut men and didn't pay any attention to the foreskin at all) http://www.nocirc.org/touch-test/touchte...



You should know that infant boys are EASIER to care for when they are intact. The foreskin does not retract until late childhood or even puberty, so you do nothing special, just wipe the outside of his penis clean and leave it alone. In a cut boy he will be extremely sensitive for a few weeks because the head of the penis is raw and exposed (they have to tear the foreskin off of the head in infants, it is naturally fused). During this time you will need to keep it VERY clean and may need to cover the wound with vaseline and gauze. Furthermore, to prevent painful and bleeding erections later in life, doctors are now commonly leaving more skin behind- in a cut boy this means you may have to push the left over skin back at every diaper change and clean beneath it to prevent it from adhering or infecting. The very thing that mother's think they avoid by circumcising! In short-



Intact = wipe like a finger, NEVER retract

Cut= vaseline, clean thoroughly, push back remaining skin to prevent adhesions etc (the last step perhaps for several months or years)



Here is an excellent tutorial on the basics of intact care and circumcision....

http://www.lactivistintactivist.com/?pag...



Another factor in your decision is that circumcised boys experience a 12% increase in their risk of MRSA infection. MRSA is commonly picked up in hospitals (where circumcision is performed in non-sterile conditions) and has been known to kill adults. I wouldn't want to deal with it in an infant. Also, 12% is a BIG risk, the risk of a boy "needing" a circ later in life is WELL below that- under 1%. http://www.nocirc.org/publish/12-Answers...



The so called "benefits" of circumcision are generally trumped up. A big one now is that it "prevents" AIDS. All the studies showing "benefits" like this have been poorly designed and inconclusive. Also, for every study that finds a "benefit" there are more studies that find no benefit. http://www.icgi.org/



It is rather eye-opening to see how circumcision first became popular in the US to begin with. It was virtually unknown in this country until the 20th century. This slide show takes you through the rise of circumcision.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=f4unKTMpBGA



Finally, you should watch a video or two of the procedure so you are fully informed of what your infant will go through. I will warn you that these are graphic. If you can't handlle watching them as an adult, why would you expect your infant son to endure them?



There are two main methods for circumcision here is one of each-



Gomco Clamp- note that the father is in the room, and the doctor claims to have used anesthesia (although whether or not he did is debatable, and he is dismissive about the whole idea) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...



Plastibell- I include this because some parents will have you believe it is "painless" or "requires no cutting/blood" I'll let you judge for yourself.....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qaqQ5Glro84



I'm sure given all the facts, you'll make the right decision for your son. :) -Neb

Answer 16

No, do NOT get him circumcised. It is HIS penis, not yours! It is also the most sensitive part of the penis (I have one, so I'd know), just like the clitoris is the most sensitive part of the vagina. I find it ridiculous that people think it is okay for their sons to have part of their penis cut off.

Answer 17

80% of the world is uncut, and even though alot of boys in the states are, approx 40% these days arent.



An uncut penis is not any less clean as long as it is washed like any other part, does not significantly increase the chance of catching an STD (What developed country has the highest circumcision rate - USA, and which developed country has the highest STD rate in the world, you guessed it).



Let him decide when he's older, cos once its gone it aint coming back.

Answer 18

As long as you can teach your son how to wash his junk there is no need get him circumcised.

Answer 19

OK the truth is keeping the foreskin keeps his penis sensitive so sex would turn out a lot more fun for him! And just the same having a foreskin means keeping his penis clean to keep smegma from building up. He's more prone to infection. Now cutting off his foreskin would help to keep his penis clean though it would lose it's sensitivity. I'd say go with cutting just a little so he has some foreskin but not enough to cover his penis.

Answer 20

reading from these answers i guess no? but, i got no foreskin and i aint got no problems..

Answer 21

I would do it. I am circumcised and I have never had a problem enjoying sex. I also have a friend who isn't circumcised and he has gotten bad reactions from girls who have never seen one before. I say do it to fit in.

Answer 22

Do Not, Im done and wish i wasn't because you lose sensitivity at the end of your penis and its just not necessary these days.