Circumcision

[Hannah]

Err, often it is medically required...

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I have been circumcised. Happened as a young child, for medical reasons. I have no real feelings about it - it isn't anything like as big an issue as FGM, which has far more serious consequences. Also worth noting that the Old Testament of the bible clearly states that boys should be circumcised.

Yeah I messed that up, my apologies.

Sometimes medically required - though this tends to occur a little later in life rather than while the child is newborn. Medical reasoning I can understand, though for belief reasons I certainly do not.

[AgnesIO]

Yeah I messed that up, my apologies.

Sometimes medically required - though this tends to occur a little later in life rather than while the child is newborn. Medical reasoning I can understand, though for belief reasons I certainly do not.

Indeed - I feel rather lucky that it happened earlier to me though. Would rather grow up circumcised than having it and then losing it!

[Hannah]

Indeed - I feel rather lucky that it happened earlier to me though. Would rather grow up circumcised than having it and then losing it!

I can't personally say what the effects are, but I can imagine that the sensation differs quite a bit if you were to reach a sexually active age and then lose it - being that you had to have the alteration because of medical reasons, with that in hindsight would you have preferred to have it removed newborn, or would it not have made much of a difference to you because you were still pretty young?

Like, would you have rather not have had it all knowing it'd be removed anyway?

[AgnesIO]

I can't personally say what the effects are, but I can imagine that the sensation differs quite a bit if you were to reach a sexually active age and then lose it - being that you had to have the alteration because of medical reasons, with that in hindsight would you have preferred to have it removed newborn, or would it not have made much of a difference to you because you were still pretty young?

Like, would you have rather not have had it all knowing it'd be removed anyway?

Can't compare the sensation, as I wasn't particularly sexually active as a four year old! So yeah, wouldn't have made a difference to me From what I am told, it prevented a lot of pain - although I can't actually remember having pain, but I'll trust my parents on that one...

[Hannah]

Can't compare the sensation, as I wasn't particularly sexually active as a four year old! So yeah, wouldn't have made a difference to me From what I am told, it prevented a lot of pain - although I can't actually remember having pain, but I'll trust my parents on that one...

Yeah, I'm sure they wouldn't just up and decide to chop it at the age of 4.
I'm glad it worked out for you, regardless.

[MKR&*42]

If you circumcise your child for any non-medical reason (yes that includes religion) then you are a degrading, idiotic fool and don't deserve to have a child.

There is absolutely no biological reason to get your child circumcised arbitrarily and believe it or not the foreskin does actually have important health roles.

Thankfully Britain hasn't been idiotic enough to follow the blindsided American trend of doing it to a very large majority boys.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Undertaker; I'd like to hear more of your opinion, having been both. How old are you? You say you 'prefer after'; where you sexually active before? What is the preference? (Perhaps just a disdain due to your medical requirement of it?)

I was not sexually active. I am 22 now, and I had it done around two years ago.

You do lose feeling on the top obviously, but at the same time in my experience anyway I would say it has 'enhanced' the feeling in other areas. I can't really explain it, but I prefer it now as opposed to before in terms of 'feeling'... as well as the fact I think it looks better visually and is cleaner.

[MONEYMAGIC]

I think it should be left alone till the child is old enough to decide what they want. I wouldn't have wanted it removed unless it really had to be. (medical problem)

[Artpops]

Circumcision is no big issue and will never be, people just enjoy blowing it way out of proportion. From what I've researched, circumcision leads to a more hygienic penis, which probably leads to less health threats... and let's be real, nobody likes going to the doctors for having an issue with their genitals. I've heard that having foreskin results in more pleasurable sex/masturbation? Oh **** wow. How sex-drive ran do you have to be to even CONSIDER that an argument? You still feel pleasure without it. Personally, however, I'm not for or against it, I'm indifferent to it and so should everyone else be.

[FlyingJesus]

From what I've researched, circumcision leads to a more hygienic penis

Well then you're reading the wrong research. That theory is propounded by American doctors who stand to benefit financially from the huge industry that is routine infant mutilation. One of the main functions of the foreskin is to secrete certain mucal fluids that actually keep it far cleaner than you could ever do using outside products, which of course wouldn't be necessary if people didn't go around chopping up little boys for fun and profit. The one study that supports the ridiculous notion that an open wound followed by a lifetime of no natural protection is somehow good for your health came about by comparing the prevalence of HIV in circumcised central African men to that of circumcised Americans, totally ignoring the entire rest of the world along with all the other huge factors involved in the imbalance shown.

I've heard that having foreskin results in more pleasurable sex/masturbation? Oh **** wow. How sex-drive ran do you have to be to even CONSIDER that an argument? You still feel pleasure without it. Personally, however, I'm not for or against it, I'm indifferent to it and so should everyone else be.

You're looking at it the wrong way around - if people were arguing for adding something to people to make their sex lives better then fair enough that would not be a good reason, but this is about removing something that's supposed to be there for no reason at all. It's about 20,000 nerves being killed off, and CHOPPING PIECES OFF A HEALTHY CHILD. There is no reason for it to happen unless a problem occurs, and indifference is just as bad as promoting it.