@RabbiZvi 4th Any pre-med human anatomy textbook documents that the female glans clitoris and the female prepuce or clitoral hood are homologus structures to the male glans penis and the male prepuce or foreskin.
@RabbiZvi 1st, you are not stating the WHO's recomendations completely & accurately. Why do you repeatedly cherry pick the WHO recomendations? 2nd any man who was circumcised as an infant or prior to being sexually active has no experience to compare circumcised sex vs uncircumcised sex and so their claims are invalid and moot in this discussion. 3rd Those who practice female circumcision type 1a do so for alleged hygienic/health benefits, religious beliefs/traditions & aesthetics.
Most men who have been circumcized say it has no effect
No Men don't have it done for the same reasons as women - anatomically men, you may have noticed, are different from women.
Too much nonsense and not enough fact. Facts: Circumcision is harmless. Circumcision can prevent HIV infection. If you choose to circumcize your boy you are dong something he will thank you for. If you are a *Jew* or *Muslim* and don't you hurt him.
Silly Pesky - male circumcision is not the same as female.
By not doing it for him when he's little you're making it harder for him to choose properly for himself. The argument about sensitivity is daft - ask anyone who's had it done. The conception argument is daft - how many children does the average Ultra-Orthodox Jewish family have. His decision would be to have it done *asap* not to leave it and make it more painful and more of an issue.
@RabbiZvi According to the UN/WHO female circumcision type 1a is the removal of the female prepuce or clitoral hood. This is sometimes referred to as Sunah circumcision. This variation of FGM or "female circumcision" is the exact same proceedure that is done on males which is cutting off the male prepuce or foreskin.
Those who practice Sunah circumcision do so for very similar reasons to Jews who circumcise baby boys. Whether you/they agree with those/your reasons is another matter.
@RabbiZvi "By not doing it for him when he's little you're making it harder for him to choose properly for himself"
Properly according to who? If it is not your penis, it is not your decision-period.
"The argument about sensitivity is daft - ask anyone who's had it done"
This comment shows bias, ignorance or manipulation as well as a bit of ad hominem. Any man who was circumcised as a child has no point of refrence what it is like to have sex with a foreskin vs with one.
The World Health Organization and UNAIDS currently recommend circumcision as part of a comprehensive program for prevention of HIV transmission in areas with high endemic rates of HIV.[14]
If you see a the birth of a healthy baby you will see tears of joy from the parents over the fact that they have a beautiful baby that is perfect. But if you then see a circumcision the very next day with the exact same perfect baby, then it just does not make any sense at all.
There are so many Jews who say that child genital cutting is *the* most important aspect of their religion. To my ears, that makes their religion sound rather petty, unfulfilling and indecent.
I prefer your kind of Judaism. I say being good to one another, and being willing to challenge one's own cultural norms seems a more worthy core principle for a religion which prides itself on mitzvahs.
People like you are making Judaism stronger and more compatible with modern ethical standards.
Whatever you do, don't listen to ignorant, non-foreskin-understanding people's advice on how to care for a child's complete penis.
Don't try to pry it open. It's stuck on like a fingernail for a reason. It'll come loose on its own anywhere from birth through late puberty. Just rinse the outside, like any other body part. The boy will open it up himself without intervention.
Here, watch this half hour. It's way better than Penn and Teller's thing for an expectant parent:
Go look at a porn of a woman having sex with a guy with an uncircumcised penis. You will be instantly jealous of how pleased she looks. Also, if you're a woman, tape both lips of your labia open and leave your clit exposed for a day. See how that makes you feel.
Of course she is more pleased because the uncut penis doesn't cause soreness and burning inside the vagina for a whole week afterwards. The foreskin keeps the lubrication inside instead of pulling it out and drying it.
You're looking for a reason for something that many babies are born *without* - if it were an essential part of a child then it would cause real problems when the child lacked it. `The foreskin is as essential to a man as his appendix - and gives him about as much pleasure.
@RabbiZvi "The foreskin is as essential to a man as his appendix - and gives him about as much pleasure"
This is a false analogy & a flawed argument used to support circumcision. First, not unless you were circumcised during a period of time that you were engaging in regular sex and/or masterbation, you have no first hand knowlege or eperience to base such a claim upon. Second, a who was circumcised as an infant has NO experience of uncircumcised sexual enjoyment to compare to.
@RabbiZvi Given the appendix's location & degree of innervation there is NO concieveable way that it could be stimulated through sex much less even touched without surgery. The prepuce on the other hand is wired with thousands of nerves that are in perfect position to be stimulated during & and masterbation.
In addition, Sforno, an Italian Jewish scholor makes it clear in his commentary on Gen 17:11,13 that circumcision was intended to weaken sex drive and lessen sexual pleasure.
@RabbiZvi Moses Maimonides, who is regarded as a prominent Jewish Scholar, clearly states in his work Guide for the Perplexed "it [circumcision] weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes diminishes the pleasure"
Why are there so many noted Jewish Scholars throughout history spaning 2000 years plus all stating that circumcision lessens sexual pleasure and weakens the organs/persons ablity to experience sexual pleasure?
Circumcision removes the most sensitive part of a man's penis. The five most sensitive areas of the penis are on the foreskin. The transitional region from the external to the internal foreskin is the most sensitive region of the fully intact penis, and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the circumcised penis.
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@MsAgnosticatheist The benefits vastly outweigh risks? Every national medical association in the world, including the American Association of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, disagrees with that statement. But I guess you know more than they do.
@MsAgnosticatheist you are absolutely WRONG! I am in the medical field and I am telling you, you are wrong, we were told it is simply a social and cultural decision in the US. It has no effect on STDs just as a douche has no effect, a bacteria is a bacteria, (and a virus is a virus) you need an antibiotic or acyclovirs or retrovirals (or AIDS cocktails) if you have an STD. Stop spreading false information. I saw a circumcision and that baby SCREAMED! I knew then a circumcision was felt.
@MsAgnosticatheist ...and as for this "surgical vaccine" there is no vaccine for HIV or other STDs, you are a very ignorant person. The only approved vaccine is one for the HPV and that is for girls at around 12 years of age. Stop using words that are misleading. Circumcision is not a vaccine, how can you even compare the two. I suppose you call the psychic hotline for stock tips.
@MsAgnosticatheist, circumcision is in NO WAY like a "surgical vaccine"! VERY few European men are circumcised. If there were any intrinsic problem with the normal penis, the UK wouldn't have phased out routine circumcision back in the early 1950s (after medical studies found it had no medical value). No British medical body regrets its disbandonment, or wants it restored.
No medical society recommends it routinely. IF the male prepuce is unhealthy, then so are the folds of your vulva.
@psandbergnz No they aren't the don't develop the same problems that foreskin does. Problems are more common than others think. Anyway, I was quoting something I read in an article. I think that the mothers/fathers should be the ones that weight the pros and cons and decide what to do with their kid. The evidence for or against isn't strong enough either way as far as I can see. It should be made illegal however there should be more requirements for education to the parents before hand.
@MsAgnosticatheist, urogenital infections are far commoner in women, e.g. fungal infections in the vagina and vulva. Female genital hygiene needs to be meticulous. If male foreskin is unhygienic, the same reasonably applies to female foreskin (clitoral hood & inner labia). Since routine circumcision is not advocated by any medical society (unlike routine vaccinations), non-therapeutic circumcision should not be based on parental whim - as for any other body part. Healthy babies are born perfect.
@MsAgnosticatheist This quote is not from the AMA, AAP or CPS nor any other medical association in the modern world, and doctors and scientists have come out with harsh criticism for equating circumcision to a vacine. I suggest you read the AMA and Candadian Paedatric Society policy statements on infant circumcision to get more objective information than what you list in this post. Calling circuimcision a vacine is a dangerous use of hyperbole.
"you're basically cutting off a piece of the body" one has to go to a place like the US to hear something like that. American obsession to harm others deal with others interfere with others, ruin other peoples lives, ruin other nations lives is a attitude that must be stopped somehow. Gential mutilation by amputation is a VILE practice with TOTAL disregard for that OTHER person's body. NO ONE has the right to disfigure another human and deprive them of natural protection and ECSTATIC pleasures.
good for you. there is no good reason for doing this unless the boy/man has a medical condition. I assume the original purpose was for there to be a reduction in sexual pleasure (whether or not there is a reduction is another matter) I often hear people say it is an issue of cleanliness, which I find an absurd argument. there are people out ther who don't wash behind their ears and no one suggests they should be forced to have their ears removed.
The premise was "make an educated decision". To which, according to her, the "arguments" and "data' where not strong enough to support it? Then, watching the other bits of info. and other posts. Exactly where is the education factor? People using emotionally charged words like Mutilate, barbaric. All these "new age" "studies" claiming why its OK to "go natural". No, the real data does show its safe. what it comes down to it, for every thing done, some schmuck has to invent a cause against it.
Yes! You and your husband have made a smart decision to not circumcise your son. Regardless of religion, it's about respecting children. It goes a long way in understanding child psychology. I wish my mother was as smart.
Why are there always women making videos about how it's wrong to circumcise their children? I get that she and her husband have probably talked about this extensively but it really is a sort of a norm that women usually speak out on this. Personally I could care less how someone's penis ends up looking. I know I'm circumcised and thankful for it considering the cleanliness aspects of it and all the people who are out there (my gf being one) who wouldn't touch a non-circumcised penis
@ChrisGnosis, plenty of anti-circumcision videos on Youtube are made by men! Most of these "intactivist" men are from the USA, and they are angry that this unnecessary surgery was forced on them as babies. The surgery actually carries risk of complications. It should only be performed with the informed consent of the owner of the body, unless it is ugently medically indicated (which is rarely the case).
I realize that there is a large male activist group for this, my post was more about how I have seen more women openly speaking on thee issue and a large number of men usually follow that que. That, however, is a PERSONAL observation I typically stay out of these discussions.
@ChrisGnosis, I'm glad you're happy with being circumcised. According to CDC data, the newborn circumcision rate in the USA may have plunged to about 33%. However, almost certainly the REAL rate is higher.
In the UK, it is estimated that well under 5% of boys get circumcised non-religiously. In the rest of Europe, the rate is typically lower still. The UK was the only European nation to ever have a circumcision tradition. The USA got it from us in the Victorian era, but we Britons abandoned it.
There is more of a stigma in America with it because it's not the norm and also, even though a non-circumcised penis can be kept just as clean, it's generally assumed that guys don't take the extra step to pull back the foreskin and wash. For this reason I don't know a single girl or guy in my area (or in general) who enjoys or will even touch a non-circumcised penis. I'm not saying that this is a well founded fear but it is something that America carries with it.
@psandbergnz British doctors stopped circumcising baby boys when they no longer got paid extra for doing it when the National Health Service started in 1948. The result was a plunge in the number of mutilated boys, as it rapidly went out of fashion. There are relatively few Jews in Britain, though now there are a lot of Muslims, and fathers will pay privately to get their sons mutilated to match them.
@ChrisGnosis Looks aren't everything. Function is more important, and when you get older you may well regret your loss. When men died in their 40s and 50s, perhaps that didn't matter too much, but the average longevity for men is now 88 years, according to a report I heard recently. Circumcised men outnumber intact men 2 to 1 for ED referrals.
That statistic might be more startling from a regional standpoint, I'm not sure where you live or where that statistic comes from if it's from a country where the majority of men are circumcised then that's just a matter of misleading numbers.
Also, I think ED is pretty normal around 60 or so, I plan on having it and taking something for it probably. I wouldn't regret my loss though, because that's pointless. Pleasure is relative.
@ChrisGnosis As the body become less efficient with age, it can only be sensible to do what we can to minimise the effects on genital performance. Not smoking, drinking only moderately certainly helps a lot, but not damaging the penis by removing the main sensory nerves, and causing dryness of the surface, must help even more.
You don't need 'reasons' not to mutilate your kid. You'd need reasons to do it. Circumcision is sexual abuse and a disgusting violation of a child's rights. Also, it's not Christian - in fact it used to be a mortal sin to circumcise. Paul, in the New Testament calls it 'mutilation' and calls those who do it 'dogs'. He also says that those who circumcise deny Christ's divinity. Now I'm not saying that Christianity is right, but it happens to be right on this issue.
The men who were not circumcised at birth and later chose to are, in my opinion, the only ones who have a right to speak on this topic. An uncircumcised male will never know if it feels any worse to be circumcised, and any of them who say otherwise are purely speculating.
Mutilated men have a vested interest in saying circumcision is good. After all, there's no going back. The human brain is designed to make the best of bad situations, and that can include lying even to oneself about bad situations.
The fact is, you can't remove tens of thousands of nerve endings and get the same sensation - it's physically impossible. Also, you cannot remove the penis's only moving part and retain the function of that part - that's also physically impossible.
@BeeryUSA What a presumptuous statement. Where is your degree in biology from, may I ask? Unless you're at liberty to make such claims, I would advise refraining from doing so. I could easily say "there are many things that are improved upon, both in nature and in technology, by using fewer parts." Does that have anything to do with this? I don't know. Is your "opinion" any more valid? I think not.
@vash1053 LOL you call me presumptuous and then you go on to say that you know enough to say that sometimes cutting body parts off can be beneficial. No one knows all the stuff body parts do - that's why doctors only cut things off when there's a real need to do so. Clearly you have no idea what the foreskin does.
@vash1053 What are you trying to be now - a fricken professor? Professor of what - ignorance? You have no idea of the numerous jobs the foreskin does, yet you assume your ignorance means everyone else is ignorant too and can benefit from your surfeit of it. Incredible the amount of sheer arrogance you display. I suggest you do some reading, though I won't go so far as to say you'll learn something, it might at least make you think twice about making completely vacuous statements in the future.
@BeeryUSA Throwing a tantrum regarding some irrelevant tangent about ignorance, mere hours after resorting to asking if I were eight, is not as impressive as you might think. Nor is your egregious use of straw-man argument.
My insistence on remaining objective is not ignorance. Your black-and-white view of human physiology, however, is.
If I'm a professor, then you just got schooled. Sadly, you've reached a certain point of inane behavior that I find unamusing. Farewell!
Well I know your son is already here (I think he should be around 3 months?) but I wanted to tell you THANK YOU for keeping him intact! You made the right choice by giving him the choice of what to do with his own body. Circumcising an unconsenting minor is just cruel and wrong. It's a violation of human rights. I'm so glad I did the reseach and kept my son (14 months) intact as well.
You mentioned that your husband was circumcised. Has he ever looked into restoration?
@BreannaLovesJuan2333 I have three sons. My eldest son I choose not to circumcise. His father was livid (we were not together anymore) but I felt that if he wanted his foreskin cut, he could do it when he was an adult. My second husband & father of the 2 younger boys on the claim that he was taking them to visit his mother, he actually had them circumcised. I was livid & still pissed off 20 years later. My eldest son now in his 20's says that it is no big thing & he is fine with being intact.
July 19th Atlanta Journal: The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions [Mogen] claimed that injury was impossible with its use, but after an infant lost a portion of his penis [entire glans] during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge awarded $10.8 million in damages against the company claimed that injury was impossible with its use. Mogen is in default on a judgement from an earlier law suit stemming from a similar botched circumcision
You bring up one thing that seems to be widespread. Most women have no idea what it is like to live your whole life without a part of your body you were born with and never were allowed to know. At least until you have to explain to your son why you had a part of your sons body cut off at birth. I think THAT is when it finally GOT to my own mother, but it was too late.
By the way, the major reason we have a choice these days is because of the consent form that was passed in 1973. Oddly enough, it's because of a lawsuit by Jewish parents who could no longer have a bris because the doctor circumcised their son without permission. The primary reason the procedure is so popular is because of the health care system doing whatever they wanted. Don't worry about HIV, that African study was a hoax.
Thank you so much for researching it before making a decision. I hope this practice becomes a rare procedure some day here in the U.S. I'm disisllusioned at the health care system of the U.S. for finding every reason under the sun to promote this. Doctors rarely mention alternatives to circumcision. They'll mention hpv reduction and won't mention there's a vaccine. It's ridiculous.
I respect you and your husband for making the right decision, especially given your husband was circumcised. It takes a strong minded man to choose to think for himself.
In all honesty, I think this is a topic you NEED to offend on, I mean, go about it politely, people should take offense because circumcision is NOT okay. It's been hell for me, and I don't care if some Jewish rabbi is offended, they are the ones with the barbaric practices.
Thanks for making the right decision. HIS body, HIS choice. A foreskin is NOT a birth defect. Circumcised American boys born in 2010 are now in the minority, as the circumcision rate has dropped to 33%. 2 out of 3 parents in America choose to leave their sons whole and intact! Take a look at the Intact America and NOCIRC websites for info on this subject. Thanks again!
I applaud your decision! We're so much about educated, informed parenting and it makes me delighted to see other parents doing their research. (And we also didn't circumcise so I'm a little biased :) )
@PeskyPCOS Your logic of, "still cutting off a piece of the body" is irrational. I really hate it when people say they're the same. they certainly are not.
I'm glad I was circumcised as a baby. There's a reason why most male porn actors are circumcised. Its more hygienic, easier to clean, improves sex (more skin to skin friction), and looks better. In fact nearly every girl I've been with prefers the feeling of circumcised, and most of us agreed uncircumcised looks...... well, very unappealing
@GeneralHoohah I hope you are still pleased with your penis when you are older, and the friction you seem to find attractive, is causing you and her discomfort and even preventing orgasm. That's my experience, and the reason that I am restoring what the doctor, who did it because he was paid, left me with. I won't get the Meissner Corpuscles back nor the frenulum, but sex should be a lot more pleasurable, and I'll be able to orgasm again.
@GeneralHoohah Yes, I've heard of lube, bought all sorts, and none of them are as good as the natural stuff that the body makes, and all cost money to buy.. By the way, your use of verbal insult indicates the weakness of your argument.
@GeneralHoohah, the fact that there are many lubes available in no way alters the UNETHICAL nature of routine infant or newborn circumcision. Circumcision of minors is very uncommon in England and the rest of Europe (done nearly always on Jews/Muslims), and no British medical authority expresses any regret over our low circumcision rate.
Routine circumcision has no net medical benefit. There are risks associated with the surgery (as well as loss of penile tissue).
@psandbergnz I don't see how its unethical, that sounds like an emotional irrational response. You'll have to convince me with carefully chosen words of intellect, not words inspired by irrational emotions. I had it done to me, and I'm very glad my mother made that choice. She's not religious so it had nothing to do with that. I see it as an improvement. I've also known two other men who had it done later in life and they wished their parents had done it when they were a baby.
@GeneralHoohah, if any form of female genital cutting is unethical (without consent), then the same applies to males. Ethics embraces both genders equally!
You're glad you were cut (forced on you!), because you have no way to change your condition. The USA is obsessed with male genital mutilation (80% circ'd), so you think it is normal. Foreskin took millions of years to evolve. It is functional tissue.
Foreskin problems are rare, and usually correctable less invasively than by surgery.
@psandbergnz Again these are emotional responses. And its not the same thing as cutting off a woman's clitoris, g-sport, or anything else.
The foreskin is gross, I would choose to have it taken off if my mother hadn't when I was a kid. You probably grow up in a country where you're taught from a young age, that its bad for emotional irrational reasons. Mutilation is an irrational reason.
@GeneralHoohah, ethics is hardly an "emotional" response, and neither have I compared male circumcision to cliterodectomy! Not all types of FGM cut the clitoris; some are no more invasive than male circumcision, yet ALL types of FGM are banned in the USA. "Labiaplasty" (removal of FEMALE FORESKIN, i.e. inner labia and clitoral hood) is homologous with male circumcsision. Would it be ethical to routinely perform labiaplasty on girls, just because some adult women choose it for themselves?
@GeneralHoohah you're absolutely sick & deranged. What are you doing looking at other people's genitals to determine that it is "gross"? r u a dick watcher? You sound perverted. Do you consider the female genitals 'gross'?? It sounds like you may never have seen them. You're in massive denial and respond in the classic way as in desperation to defend your mutilated (by amputation) state. You have lost a substantial amount of ecstatic pleasures for life with no natural protection. ENJOY!!!
@GeneralHoohah "You'll have to convince me with carefully chosen words of intellect... I had it done to me, and I'm very glad my mother made that choice." This suggests that you had sex at the age of about one day old, perhaps with the local nurse i.e. a day after birth, decided that it wasn't great shakes, babbled in baby language that it might be an idea to tear off the FS & try again. After healing, now 6 months old, there was the improvement!! Boy must u have been glad to have had it done!
Watch the video" foreskin explained with animation" and I'm sure you will immediately change your opinion of the foreskin being gross after you see what important function the foreskin provides.
@GeneralHoohah I hope you realize that the rest of the modern world reads your comments and wonder if you have ever lived outside of the US, dated women in europe or talked wtih women who have actually had sex with both uncircumcised and circumcised men.
American women are very ignorant as a general rule about male anatomy and the purpose of the foreskin, and they have been brainwashed into this hygiene issue that is irony at its finest. The female genitalia have more hygiene issues.
@neechee5150 Actually it does help with hygiene, not for the sake of the guy but for the woman. Germs and bacteria, lint, hair, etc can hide under folds of skin... and if it ends up in the woman, it can cause some problems. I knew a girl a few years ago. Anyway, she got something and the doc actually found a small piece of something deep down in her and it caused an infection. Turns out it traveled from her bf into her during sex... and guess what! He wasn't circumcised.
@GeneralHoohah . "Germs and bacteria, lint, hair, etc can hide under folds of skin(clitoral hood, labia minora, labia majora)... and if it ends up in the [man], it can cause some problems"
Once again, in a country where soap and water are plentiful and daily hygiene is expected and affordable, if hygiene was truly the reason or an adequate reason, baby girls would be getting surgically altered too. Your anecdote is very suspicious at best. What was the specific piece of something?
@GeneralHoohah Untily you name the specific piece of something and prove that the object could only be and was infact transferred due to circumcision status, your argument is a fallacy. As the vulva is plentiful in germs, fungus, lint, hair, femine hygiene product debris, menstrual blood residue,urine residue, shaving by products or wax, it is equally feasable that one or more of these kinds of debris was loged in the woman by a sex toy, inserting a tampon, or sex with a cirucmicised man.
@PeskyPCOS, CONGRATULATIONS! Why not do another small video with your experience having an "intact" boy, and whether you encountered any opposition to your decision? Are there many American neighbours and friends who made the same choice as you? I believe it's around "50:50" nowadays in the USA (depending on where you live).
@PeskyPCOS Congrats on the baby, but honestly i don't see a problem with circumcision, just like you didn't before you heard all the "bad" things about it. An uncircumcised penis could be just as fatal as cut one. Each have benefits, and each have faults, it's all a matter of opinion really. I've been with 5 uncut guys and the rest were cut, neither seemed to be less sexually aroused then the other. But i prefer cut becauseit just feels better. But i respect your opinion, unlike some extremists
@Kickhiminthegonads I understand what you are saying but really the point of the video is just to say that I think if a man wants to be circumcised then that should be his choice when he is older. I wouldn't want anyone cutting my labia off for example. It is a mans choice and I support the right to choice for men. continued.
@PeskyPCOS Please also remember that the labia is a different component (& of course female), but it does not equate to the foreskin. The FS has sophisticated membranes (found nowhere else on the human body) on the underside containing nerve endings that provide indescribable ecstatic sexual pleasure and constitute by far the acutest erogenous zone. I cannot speak for women's sensations (as some women actually have the audacity to attempt to know what a man feels) but the L'min is not as the FS.
@PeskyPCOS I couldn't let this comment go as you are showing the kind of ignorance that makes this topic so contentious. Yes a female can safely have a labia minora reduction in adulthood. Adult male circumcision on the other hand is a very high risk proceedure & can lead to serious complications. The only time an adult male might have such a procedure done is because of health reasons or infection issues. Infant male circumcison is safe and a matter for the parents to decide.
@Kickhiminthegonads What men do with their body parts are their own business and just because I am a mother does not mean I have the right to alterf that away. Babies are so helpless and they rely on us to protect them. Seeing my little baby so helpless when he was born just strengthened my resolve.
unlike the parents who have gotten their sons circumcised, *you* aren't taking the risk of your son hating you for stealing away a valuable piece of his manhood... a piece of a male's manhood that can never be brought back in his entire life. not in this time, at least.
maybe future medical advancements will allow depressed men to fully restore their foreskins.
@Kickhiminthegonads "An uncircumcised penis could be just as fatal as cut one."
Considering that over 100 and perhaps more die each year in the US from circumcision, I must ask you to please elaborate. I am aware of NO fatal condition simply by having intact genitalia. The foreskin is not a birth defect.
@Kickhiminthegonads "An uncircumcised penis could be just as fatal as cut one."
Considering that over 100 and perhaps more die each year in the US from circumcision, I must ask you to please elaborate. I am aware of NO fatal condition simply by having intact genitalia. The foreskin is not a birth defect.
@Kickhiminthegonads What if I preferred the absence of labia minora or the clitoral hood? Why is that procedure not available for my future daughters?
@Kickhiminthegonads you're mentally deficient, make irresponsible remarks & u r 100% incompetent to comment on such a subject since you r from the opposite sex. If you don't see a problem with it (how can you, you have demonstrated that u r a female & an ignoramus and suffer from diminished responsibility) that I STRONGLY suggest you go to your nearest clinic and have your labia minora & clitoral hood totally removed and some 50% of your clitoris. Please, please go and do it now. I'll pay.
Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision, Monday July 19, 2010. The baby identified only as L.G., lost the entire glans, or head, of his penis after it was pulled into the jaws of the clamp, according to a federal magistrate's order. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein ordered Mogen Circumcision Instruments of New York to pay $10.8 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the Florida boy, now 3, and his parents.
Your putting your decision in the public domain despite the Jewishness of your respective families of origin, was a bolder act than I am capable of. My SO completely agrees that baby boys should be left intact, but would NOT agree with announcing that fact to the world. Special hugs your spouse, for his willingness to break with 25 centuries of Jewish tradition. Many European and Latin American Jewish families no longer do bris but keep quiet about it.
My sons not circumcised, he is 4 years old now, and he is around his cousins and things like that and he noticed his was different and he ask my why and he told me he wanted it different. So I don't know if its just a stage he will grown out of, or if he will always have that in the back of his head. I couldn't afford it when he was born, and it really wasn't a big deal for me. and I know men that are not and they enjoy their sex life and are fine with it. So hopefully he will be fine!
@uniqueme22 Well hun I think you made the right choice. Your son can have it done when he is older. Kids want to fit in. He might not feel the same way when he is an adult. Check out those docs I posted. On Circumcision it's very interesting. If you don't want to really watch the whole things. forward to 37 minutes in the 2nd doc I posted not the Penn and Teller one. They spend about 5 minutes talking about how important the forskin is for sexual function early and later on in life. :)
@PeskyPCOS If I have a son this time I am not circumcising him either. I think it is up to them when they get older. Plus have one done and the other isn't right to me, cause Preston would be like why is he done and I am not? You know. So I love the video you gave me the link to so far, It makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much,
@NeverAloneForever - A baby died in south dakota less then a year ago because of a circ. infection. Like any surgery even when a child carrys the risk of chance of death. Babies get infections all the time for it but it usally is not life threatining. When you are an adult circ. carrys the same risk as well because of Anesthesia and infection and such. Usually it's not an issue for either baby or adult. But death and infection do happen.
@PeskyPCOS Thanks. I didn't know the exact reason why they would die but this makes sense. . . . . . .Now that I think about it the only reason why circ. might have killed grown men in ancient times was that not much could kill the pain (that and infection). Peace.
@PeskyPCOS One baby in the US dies every year due to complications directly from circumcision. In one year, the same hospital in Atlanta, Georgia caused two infant deaths due to circumcision, but that is the cluster effect.
@NeverAloneForever Why remove the most sensitive part of his penis in the first place? When he understands the importance of it, he won't envy his friends any more. He'll feel sorry for them. If your son asked you to have his arm surgically removed so he can be like a pirate, would you also consider it? Protect your son, all of it.
@uniqueme22 You made the right decision for the only real reason and that is there is no reason to circumcise one's child whether jewish , muslim, atheist no matter there is no medical reason. As far as the explanation for your son, tell him the truth after you find out what that truth is and this woman's husband is absolutely right....."FIRST DO NO HARM"
@uniqueme22 Just explain to him that his cousins had a piece of their penises cut off when they were babies and that you did not want to do that to him. Also tell him that lots of boys have penises like his and it is very normal. It can be difficult for a child if they feel different from all the other kids around them, especially in an area as personal as the penis. Does you know if he has any friends who are intact?
@uniqueme22 My man. Don't worry at all. Keep in mind that for thousands of years since the beginning of man, men have not circumcised. Its a fad that began 2000 years ago in the middle east by the tribe of Israel. That's. And they didn't start it based on anything but religious reasons. Because it had to do with giving up something important to you. part of your dick.
It's so nice to see a TTC/Pregnancy vlogger deciding not to circumcise and talking about it! I actually gave a speech against circumcision for a class a few weeks ago. I did a lot of research and there are so many studies that directly contradict each other, it's hard to sort through the facts. I strongly believe that everyone should watch a circumcision before they make up their mind.
@latinjuliet Oh thanks so much darlin I appriciate it! Your time is coming soon I know it! If you are interested check out those documentaries I posted on Circumcision. They are very interesting. Take care hun and I am so glad you are back and rested!
Good for you for making ur own choices ! - My Dad was not circumcised & He had so much trouble through out his life that he choose 2 have it done for himself at 40 - NOT EASY as any man would guess-NOW with that said that does NOT mean that happens to Everyone-I'm just saying AFTER speaking with him in great detail & him begging us not to put his grandsons through what he had experienced we chose to have them done - Heres to our Love 4our children & the Hard choices we have to make (((HUG)))
i have never thought about this topic till we found out we were having a boy(he didnt make it) but i just told my husband that it was up to him because i know nothing about male parts because i never had one... and all he said is i want my son to have the samething i have... so no circumcision for us.. plus i looked into alot of studies and i agree with my husband.. im proud of you for taking on such a tough subject.. thanks!!
First I have to say.. im not really passionate about anything other than fertility! haha. I think that hubby and i are TOTALLY going for the circumcision for social reasons like you said. I have seen an uncirc. and I was super freaked.. but besides that I guess its just the "norm" for us and I think EVERYONE should have their own choice and not have people jumping down anyones throat for their own choices. With anything! Breastfeeding, this, diapers, whatever it is.. we should have our choices!
@TheTurnersJourney Thanks so much for your comment. I really appriciate it :) May I just say before you completely make up your mind. Please check out the two documentaries that I posted. They are very interesting and they give pro and con reasons. Information is great to have. If you don't want to watch the whole documentary at least watch the second one I posted and forward to 37 minutes there is some very interesting information on circumcistion. Anyway thanks for your comment darlin :) hugs
@TheTurnersJourney, if "everyone should have their own choice", then that very right applies to your SON! Americans, STOP treating your children like chattels! HIs/her body means his/her choice. Google: "foreskin function".
Does Michelangelo's statue of David freak you out? Its penis is whole! A circumcised penis on a work of art would look just what it is - disfigured/mutilated! As a membrane, the glans is supposed to be potected with a cover (when flaccid), just like your clitoris is!
@TheTurnersJourney, but the choice would NOT be mine if I had had control-freak parents like you, now would it?! Subjecting a helpless baby to unnecessary circumcision has got to be wrong! No medical society advocates non-therapeutic circumcision. There are even risks associated with it, which every circumciser is obliged to advise parents of. Furthermore, there will be the loss of healthy functional tissue (which you and your husband don't understand), all to satisfy a silly whim of yours!
@ChrisGnosis, you had a "loose" circumcision, although you lack the foreskin tip (namely "the ridged band"), which is where foreskin sensory nerves are most concentrated. But most circumcised men have insufficient foreskin to cover the glans (check out photos of circ'd penises to see).
As a European, I equate infant circumcision (alas, so common in the USA!) as mutilation. It is unethical to force it on a minor. Unnecessary genital cutting of babies conflicts with normal maternal instinct.
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religion is not a defence for female circumcision and the same goes for male circumcision. u dont even realize it, but u r clearly sexist.
ScaryEskimo 2 days ago
@RabbiZvi 4th Any pre-med human anatomy textbook documents that the female glans clitoris and the female prepuce or clitoral hood are homologus structures to the male glans penis and the male prepuce or foreskin.
neechee5150 6 days ago
@RabbiZvi 1st, you are not stating the WHO's recomendations completely & accurately. Why do you repeatedly cherry pick the WHO recomendations? 2nd any man who was circumcised as an infant or prior to being sexually active has no experience to compare circumcised sex vs uncircumcised sex and so their claims are invalid and moot in this discussion. 3rd Those who practice female circumcision type 1a do so for alleged hygienic/health benefits, religious beliefs/traditions & aesthetics.
neechee5150 1 week ago
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Neechee you seem to be stalking me.
WHO recommend Circumcision
Most men who have been circumcized say it has no effect
No Men don't have it done for the same reasons as women - anatomically men, you may have noticed, are different from women.
Too much nonsense and not enough fact. Facts: Circumcision is harmless. Circumcision can prevent HIV infection. If you choose to circumcize your boy you are dong something he will thank you for. If you are a *Jew* or *Muslim* and don't you hurt him.
RabbiZvi 2 weeks ago
@RabbiZvi I got my information from personal experience with cut and uncut men and from sexasnatureintendit..com 10 ways circumcised sex harms women.
TheYellowtulip 2 weeks ago
Silly Pesky - male circumcision is not the same as female.
By not doing it for him when he's little you're making it harder for him to choose properly for himself. The argument about sensitivity is daft - ask anyone who's had it done. The conception argument is daft - how many children does the average Ultra-Orthodox Jewish family have. His decision would be to have it done *asap* not to leave it and make it more painful and more of an issue.
RabbiZvi 2 weeks ago
by choose I mean choose a religion.
RabbiZvi 2 weeks ago
@RabbiZvi According to the UN/WHO female circumcision type 1a is the removal of the female prepuce or clitoral hood. This is sometimes referred to as Sunah circumcision. This variation of FGM or "female circumcision" is the exact same proceedure that is done on males which is cutting off the male prepuce or foreskin.
Those who practice Sunah circumcision do so for very similar reasons to Jews who circumcise baby boys. Whether you/they agree with those/your reasons is another matter.
neechee5150 2 weeks ago
@RabbiZvi "By not doing it for him when he's little you're making it harder for him to choose properly for himself"
Properly according to who? If it is not your penis, it is not your decision-period.
"The argument about sensitivity is daft - ask anyone who's had it done"
This comment shows bias, ignorance or manipulation as well as a bit of ad hominem. Any man who was circumcised as a child has no point of refrence what it is like to have sex with a foreskin vs with one.
neechee5150 1 week ago
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The World Health Organization and UNAIDS currently recommend circumcision as part of a comprehensive program for prevention of HIV transmission in areas with high endemic rates of HIV.[14]
RabbiZvi 2 weeks ago
YOU RULE!!! :)
Superunflour 2 months ago
If you see a the birth of a healthy baby you will see tears of joy from the parents over the fact that they have a beautiful baby that is perfect. But if you then see a circumcision the very next day with the exact same perfect baby, then it just does not make any sense at all.
thisisawsome34253212 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
if your going to circumzise a boy then why not a girl....??? circumzicion is cruel and pathetic torture.
crazyknight2008 2 months ago 3
Great video.... loved it.
I've got jewish friends with foreskin. Circumcised is becoming the minority where i live.
I belong to two nudist resorts. Some of the adults are cut, but 90% of the kids are not.
TheNaturalCAD 2 months ago 2
someone put their hair down for this video!
sactowncr1minal 3 months ago
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Sign this petition. A link to it is on my channel.
whitehouse . gov/petitions/!/petition/ban-male-infant-circumcision-usa-and-promote-foreskin-restoration-all-mutilated-men/j47mm6sh
Swa253 4 months ago
sexasnatureintendedit . com
Swa253 4 months ago
bringing him to this world isn't his right apprently but circumcision is!
viralstile 4 months ago
@viralstile Red herring.
DetestableCrabmeat 2 months ago
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syvesterpinto 6 months ago
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syvesterpinto 6 months ago
There are so many Jews who say that child genital cutting is *the* most important aspect of their religion. To my ears, that makes their religion sound rather petty, unfulfilling and indecent.
I prefer your kind of Judaism. I say being good to one another, and being willing to challenge one's own cultural norms seems a more worthy core principle for a religion which prides itself on mitzvahs.
People like you are making Judaism stronger and more compatible with modern ethical standards.
loqiloqi 7 months ago
Whatever you do, don't listen to ignorant, non-foreskin-understanding people's advice on how to care for a child's complete penis.
Don't try to pry it open. It's stuck on like a fingernail for a reason. It'll come loose on its own anywhere from birth through late puberty. Just rinse the outside, like any other body part. The boy will open it up himself without intervention.
Here, watch this half hour. It's way better than Penn and Teller's thing for an expectant parent:
/watch?v=Ceht-3xu84I
loqiloqi 7 months ago
You say it's not your right to reach into a child's drawers with a blade and *you're* the one worried about being offensive?
What an upside-down world.
loqiloqi 7 months ago 12
Go look at a porn of a woman having sex with a guy with an uncircumcised penis. You will be instantly jealous of how pleased she looks. Also, if you're a woman, tape both lips of your labia open and leave your clit exposed for a day. See how that makes you feel.
pandpinjapan 7 months ago 2
Of course she is more pleased because the uncut penis doesn't cause soreness and burning inside the vagina for a whole week afterwards. The foreskin keeps the lubrication inside instead of pulling it out and drying it.
TheYellowtulip 3 weeks ago
@TheYellowtulip where did you get that from? Nonsense.
RabbiZvi 2 weeks ago
@RabbiZvi How is it nonsense that a normal part of the human anatomy has a function?
RockoMyler 1 week ago
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You're looking for a reason for something that many babies are born *without* - if it were an essential part of a child then it would cause real problems when the child lacked it. `The foreskin is as essential to a man as his appendix - and gives him about as much pleasure.
RabbiZvi 1 week ago
@RabbiZvi On what planet are babies born without a foreskin?
RockoMyler 1 week ago
@RabbiZvi "The foreskin is as essential to a man as his appendix - and gives him about as much pleasure"
This is a false analogy & a flawed argument used to support circumcision. First, not unless you were circumcised during a period of time that you were engaging in regular sex and/or masterbation, you have no first hand knowlege or eperience to base such a claim upon. Second, a who was circumcised as an infant has NO experience of uncircumcised sexual enjoyment to compare to.
neechee5150 1 week ago
@RabbiZvi Given the appendix's location & degree of innervation there is NO concieveable way that it could be stimulated through sex much less even touched without surgery. The prepuce on the other hand is wired with thousands of nerves that are in perfect position to be stimulated during & and masterbation.
In addition, Sforno, an Italian Jewish scholor makes it clear in his commentary on Gen 17:11,13 that circumcision was intended to weaken sex drive and lessen sexual pleasure.
neechee5150 1 week ago
@RabbiZvi Moses Maimonides, who is regarded as a prominent Jewish Scholar, clearly states in his work Guide for the Perplexed "it [circumcision] weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes diminishes the pleasure"
Why are there so many noted Jewish Scholars throughout history spaning 2000 years plus all stating that circumcision lessens sexual pleasure and weakens the organs/persons ablity to experience sexual pleasure?
neechee5150 1 week ago
More power to women choosing to keep their children whole.
pandpinjapan 7 months ago
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Circumcision removes the most sensitive part of a man's penis. The five most sensitive areas of the penis are on the foreskin. The transitional region from the external to the internal foreskin is the most sensitive region of the fully intact penis, and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the circumcised penis.
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wdmm94 7 months ago
cute lady
IbnNero 7 months ago
infant circumcision should be ILLEGAL!!
it violates a child's right to consent over their own body.
no parent should be allowed to do this to their child, foreskin is NOT a birth defect!!
ec123456789able 7 months ago
Thanks for making the video.
feministsAreCorrupt 9 months ago
and I made a documentary about it too.
VyckRo 9 months ago
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MsAgnosticatheist 9 months ago
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@MsAgnosticatheist The benefits vastly outweigh risks? Every national medical association in the world, including the American Association of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, disagrees with that statement. But I guess you know more than they do.
bodaciouscowboy 9 months ago
@MsAgnosticatheist you are absolutely WRONG! I am in the medical field and I am telling you, you are wrong, we were told it is simply a social and cultural decision in the US. It has no effect on STDs just as a douche has no effect, a bacteria is a bacteria, (and a virus is a virus) you need an antibiotic or acyclovirs or retrovirals (or AIDS cocktails) if you have an STD. Stop spreading false information. I saw a circumcision and that baby SCREAMED! I knew then a circumcision was felt.
XDragasesX 9 months ago
@MsAgnosticatheist ...and as for this "surgical vaccine" there is no vaccine for HIV or other STDs, you are a very ignorant person. The only approved vaccine is one for the HPV and that is for girls at around 12 years of age. Stop using words that are misleading. Circumcision is not a vaccine, how can you even compare the two. I suppose you call the psychic hotline for stock tips.
XDragasesX 9 months ago
@MsAgnosticatheist, circumcision is in NO WAY like a "surgical vaccine"! VERY few European men are circumcised. If there were any intrinsic problem with the normal penis, the UK wouldn't have phased out routine circumcision back in the early 1950s (after medical studies found it had no medical value). No British medical body regrets its disbandonment, or wants it restored.
No medical society recommends it routinely. IF the male prepuce is unhealthy, then so are the folds of your vulva.
psandbergnz 8 months ago
@psandbergnz No they aren't the don't develop the same problems that foreskin does. Problems are more common than others think. Anyway, I was quoting something I read in an article. I think that the mothers/fathers should be the ones that weight the pros and cons and decide what to do with their kid. The evidence for or against isn't strong enough either way as far as I can see. It should be made illegal however there should be more requirements for education to the parents before hand.
MsAgnosticatheist 8 months ago
@MsAgnosticatheist, urogenital infections are far commoner in women, e.g. fungal infections in the vagina and vulva. Female genital hygiene needs to be meticulous. If male foreskin is unhygienic, the same reasonably applies to female foreskin (clitoral hood & inner labia). Since routine circumcision is not advocated by any medical society (unlike routine vaccinations), non-therapeutic circumcision should not be based on parental whim - as for any other body part. Healthy babies are born perfect.
psandbergnz 8 months ago
@MsAgnosticatheist This quote is not from the AMA, AAP or CPS nor any other medical association in the modern world, and doctors and scientists have come out with harsh criticism for equating circumcision to a vacine. I suggest you read the AMA and Candadian Paedatric Society policy statements on infant circumcision to get more objective information than what you list in this post. Calling circuimcision a vacine is a dangerous use of hyperbole.
neechee5150 3 months ago
Oh how I wish there was a "love" button for the STD comment and then for the "taking the whole baby home" comment. :D Thanks for doing this video!
ryari27 9 months ago
@ryari27 Thanks! I am very glad I did the video as well. :)
Ferris94to98 9 months ago
"you're basically cutting off a piece of the body" one has to go to a place like the US to hear something like that. American obsession to harm others deal with others interfere with others, ruin other peoples lives, ruin other nations lives is a attitude that must be stopped somehow. Gential mutilation by amputation is a VILE practice with TOTAL disregard for that OTHER person's body. NO ONE has the right to disfigure another human and deprive them of natural protection and ECSTATIC pleasures.
trident3b 9 months ago
btw kickhiminthegonads (nice name) is a fucking moron. just sayin like.
GreenFury1976 9 months ago
good for you. there is no good reason for doing this unless the boy/man has a medical condition. I assume the original purpose was for there to be a reduction in sexual pleasure (whether or not there is a reduction is another matter) I often hear people say it is an issue of cleanliness, which I find an absurd argument. there are people out ther who don't wash behind their ears and no one suggests they should be forced to have their ears removed.
GreenFury1976 9 months ago
None of the BS potential health benefits of circumcision could ever make up for the depression I feel every day of my life.
TiniNormi 10 months ago
Don't let him back light you I hear that it is really painful. Plus you will walk funny for 3 days.
fishbaitor 10 months ago
The premise was "make an educated decision". To which, according to her, the "arguments" and "data' where not strong enough to support it? Then, watching the other bits of info. and other posts. Exactly where is the education factor? People using emotionally charged words like Mutilate, barbaric. All these "new age" "studies" claiming why its OK to "go natural". No, the real data does show its safe. what it comes down to it, for every thing done, some schmuck has to invent a cause against it.
MjcOni8672 10 months ago
thank u soooo much for agreeing with ur husband and doing this for your son
big504easy 10 months ago
Yes! You and your husband have made a smart decision to not circumcise your son. Regardless of religion, it's about respecting children. It goes a long way in understanding child psychology. I wish my mother was as smart.
silentthriller 11 months ago
Why are there always women making videos about how it's wrong to circumcise their children? I get that she and her husband have probably talked about this extensively but it really is a sort of a norm that women usually speak out on this. Personally I could care less how someone's penis ends up looking. I know I'm circumcised and thankful for it considering the cleanliness aspects of it and all the people who are out there (my gf being one) who wouldn't touch a non-circumcised penis
ChrisGnosis 11 months ago
@ChrisGnosis, plenty of anti-circumcision videos on Youtube are made by men! Most of these "intactivist" men are from the USA, and they are angry that this unnecessary surgery was forced on them as babies. The surgery actually carries risk of complications. It should only be performed with the informed consent of the owner of the body, unless it is ugently medically indicated (which is rarely the case).
psandbergnz 11 months ago 2
@psandbergnz
I realize that there is a large male activist group for this, my post was more about how I have seen more women openly speaking on thee issue and a large number of men usually follow that que. That, however, is a PERSONAL observation I typically stay out of these discussions.
ChrisGnosis 11 months ago
@ChrisGnosis, I'm glad you're happy with being circumcised. According to CDC data, the newborn circumcision rate in the USA may have plunged to about 33%. However, almost certainly the REAL rate is higher.
In the UK, it is estimated that well under 5% of boys get circumcised non-religiously. In the rest of Europe, the rate is typically lower still. The UK was the only European nation to ever have a circumcision tradition. The USA got it from us in the Victorian era, but we Britons abandoned it.
psandbergnz 11 months ago
@psandbergnz
There is more of a stigma in America with it because it's not the norm and also, even though a non-circumcised penis can be kept just as clean, it's generally assumed that guys don't take the extra step to pull back the foreskin and wash. For this reason I don't know a single girl or guy in my area (or in general) who enjoys or will even touch a non-circumcised penis. I'm not saying that this is a well founded fear but it is something that America carries with it.
ChrisGnosis 11 months ago
@psandbergnz British doctors stopped circumcising baby boys when they no longer got paid extra for doing it when the National Health Service started in 1948. The result was a plunge in the number of mutilated boys, as it rapidly went out of fashion. There are relatively few Jews in Britain, though now there are a lot of Muslims, and fathers will pay privately to get their sons mutilated to match them.
Hilltopper2549 10 months ago
@ChrisGnosis Looks aren't everything. Function is more important, and when you get older you may well regret your loss. When men died in their 40s and 50s, perhaps that didn't matter too much, but the average longevity for men is now 88 years, according to a report I heard recently. Circumcised men outnumber intact men 2 to 1 for ED referrals.
Hilltopper2549 10 months ago
@Hilltopper2549
That statistic might be more startling from a regional standpoint, I'm not sure where you live or where that statistic comes from if it's from a country where the majority of men are circumcised then that's just a matter of misleading numbers.
Also, I think ED is pretty normal around 60 or so, I plan on having it and taking something for it probably. I wouldn't regret my loss though, because that's pointless. Pleasure is relative.
ChrisGnosis 10 months ago
@ChrisGnosis As the body become less efficient with age, it can only be sensible to do what we can to minimise the effects on genital performance. Not smoking, drinking only moderately certainly helps a lot, but not damaging the penis by removing the main sensory nerves, and causing dryness of the surface, must help even more.
Hilltopper2549 10 months ago
your doing the right thing. the skins there for a reson. i have mine and never had a problem.
hobo31009 1 year ago
You don't need 'reasons' not to mutilate your kid. You'd need reasons to do it. Circumcision is sexual abuse and a disgusting violation of a child's rights. Also, it's not Christian - in fact it used to be a mortal sin to circumcise. Paul, in the New Testament calls it 'mutilation' and calls those who do it 'dogs'. He also says that those who circumcise deny Christ's divinity. Now I'm not saying that Christianity is right, but it happens to be right on this issue.
BeeryUSA 1 year ago
The men who were not circumcised at birth and later chose to are, in my opinion, the only ones who have a right to speak on this topic. An uncircumcised male will never know if it feels any worse to be circumcised, and any of them who say otherwise are purely speculating.
vash1053 1 year ago
@vash1053
Mutilated men have a vested interest in saying circumcision is good. After all, there's no going back. The human brain is designed to make the best of bad situations, and that can include lying even to oneself about bad situations.
The fact is, you can't remove tens of thousands of nerve endings and get the same sensation - it's physically impossible. Also, you cannot remove the penis's only moving part and retain the function of that part - that's also physically impossible.
BeeryUSA 1 year ago
@BeeryUSA , not to mention the head of the penis has been desensitived from the years of constantly being exposed to air and clothing.
PungiFungi 1 year ago
@BeeryUSA What a presumptuous statement. Where is your degree in biology from, may I ask? Unless you're at liberty to make such claims, I would advise refraining from doing so. I could easily say "there are many things that are improved upon, both in nature and in technology, by using fewer parts." Does that have anything to do with this? I don't know. Is your "opinion" any more valid? I think not.
vash1053 11 months ago
@vash1053 LOL you call me presumptuous and then you go on to say that you know enough to say that sometimes cutting body parts off can be beneficial. No one knows all the stuff body parts do - that's why doctors only cut things off when there's a real need to do so. Clearly you have no idea what the foreskin does.
BeeryUSA 11 months ago
@BeeryUSA On the contrary, I said that I -didn't- know. And that was the point of my saying so.
I bet you feel silly now.
vash1053 11 months ago
@vash1053 What are you, 8?
BeeryUSA 11 months ago
@BeeryUSA Good one. You're dismissed.
vash1053 11 months ago
@vash1053 What are you trying to be now - a fricken professor? Professor of what - ignorance? You have no idea of the numerous jobs the foreskin does, yet you assume your ignorance means everyone else is ignorant too and can benefit from your surfeit of it. Incredible the amount of sheer arrogance you display. I suggest you do some reading, though I won't go so far as to say you'll learn something, it might at least make you think twice about making completely vacuous statements in the future.
BeeryUSA 11 months ago
@BeeryUSA Throwing a tantrum regarding some irrelevant tangent about ignorance, mere hours after resorting to asking if I were eight, is not as impressive as you might think. Nor is your egregious use of straw-man argument.
My insistence on remaining objective is not ignorance. Your black-and-white view of human physiology, however, is.
If I'm a professor, then you just got schooled. Sadly, you've reached a certain point of inane behavior that I find unamusing. Farewell!
vash1053 10 months ago
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utoobmark 1 year ago
@rmtrostli Oh! I guess I should have researched that. Do you know if they give this warning at all?
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
Well I know your son is already here (I think he should be around 3 months?) but I wanted to tell you THANK YOU for keeping him intact! You made the right choice by giving him the choice of what to do with his own body. Circumcising an unconsenting minor is just cruel and wrong. It's a violation of human rights. I'm so glad I did the reseach and kept my son (14 months) intact as well.
You mentioned that your husband was circumcised. Has he ever looked into restoration?
BreannaLovesJuan2333 1 year ago 8
@BreannaLovesJuan2333 I have three sons. My eldest son I choose not to circumcise. His father was livid (we were not together anymore) but I felt that if he wanted his foreskin cut, he could do it when he was an adult. My second husband & father of the 2 younger boys on the claim that he was taking them to visit his mother, he actually had them circumcised. I was livid & still pissed off 20 years later. My eldest son now in his 20's says that it is no big thing & he is fine with being intact.
fourthgirl 5 months ago
July 19th Atlanta Journal: The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions [Mogen] claimed that injury was impossible with its use, but after an infant lost a portion of his penis [entire glans] during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge awarded $10.8 million in damages against the company claimed that injury was impossible with its use. Mogen is in default on a judgement from an earlier law suit stemming from a similar botched circumcision
neechee5150 1 year ago
You bring up one thing that seems to be widespread. Most women have no idea what it is like to live your whole life without a part of your body you were born with and never were allowed to know. At least until you have to explain to your son why you had a part of your sons body cut off at birth. I think THAT is when it finally GOT to my own mother, but it was too late.
lochinvar00465 1 year ago
By the way, the major reason we have a choice these days is because of the consent form that was passed in 1973. Oddly enough, it's because of a lawsuit by Jewish parents who could no longer have a bris because the doctor circumcised their son without permission. The primary reason the procedure is so popular is because of the health care system doing whatever they wanted. Don't worry about HIV, that African study was a hoax.
fot80 1 year ago 2
Thank you so much for researching it before making a decision. I hope this practice becomes a rare procedure some day here in the U.S. I'm disisllusioned at the health care system of the U.S. for finding every reason under the sun to promote this. Doctors rarely mention alternatives to circumcision. They'll mention hpv reduction and won't mention there's a vaccine. It's ridiculous.
fot80 1 year ago 2
I respect you and your husband for making the right decision, especially given your husband was circumcised. It takes a strong minded man to choose to think for himself.
TheWorstWarlock 1 year ago 3
In all honesty, I think this is a topic you NEED to offend on, I mean, go about it politely, people should take offense because circumcision is NOT okay. It's been hell for me, and I don't care if some Jewish rabbi is offended, they are the ones with the barbaric practices.
SpinCycleSubmission 1 year ago 16
@SpinCycleSubmission Not to mention the doctors who advocate this crap, like all of them it seems sometimes.
SpinCycleSubmission 1 year ago
You are right Jewish people are barbaric, they also do it to the girls, this people are viciousand mean, and the women are worst.
MrCigarette456 10 months ago
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evolution gave us a foreskin for a reason
all these religious nutheads need to stop calling it circumcision. Its mutilation not only for girls but boys too.
As for those zombies who say "it looks better that way", you're fucking sick!!
jigglyfidda125 1 year ago
Thanks for making the right decision. HIS body, HIS choice. A foreskin is NOT a birth defect. Circumcised American boys born in 2010 are now in the minority, as the circumcision rate has dropped to 33%. 2 out of 3 parents in America choose to leave their sons whole and intact! Take a look at the Intact America and NOCIRC websites for info on this subject. Thanks again!
Chadolution 1 year ago
the nerve ending is missing in Middle East !thats why they hate life so much!
IbnNero 1 year ago
You made a great decision! congrats :)
mommyluvskenna 1 year ago 3
I applaud your decision! We're so much about educated, informed parenting and it makes me delighted to see other parents doing their research. (And we also didn't circumcise so I'm a little biased :) )
MrMrsNintendo 1 year ago
MAIN REASON - circumcised cant FAP, or at least it makes it more difficult, poor americans :D
elvis667 1 year ago
I agree with you 100%
paulp888 1 year ago
PeskyPCOS, did you have boy or a girl, and how's the baby?
psandbergnz 1 year ago
@psandbergnz I'm having a boy!!!! Baby isn't here yet. 6 months pregnant. :)
PeskyPCOS 1 year ago
@PeskyPCOS, wunderbar!
psandbergnz 1 year ago
@PeskyPCOS Your logic of, "still cutting off a piece of the body" is irrational. I really hate it when people say they're the same. they certainly are not.
I'm glad I was circumcised as a baby. There's a reason why most male porn actors are circumcised. Its more hygienic, easier to clean, improves sex (more skin to skin friction), and looks better. In fact nearly every girl I've been with prefers the feeling of circumcised, and most of us agreed uncircumcised looks...... well, very unappealing
GeneralHoohah 11 months ago
@GeneralHoohah I hope you are still pleased with your penis when you are older, and the friction you seem to find attractive, is causing you and her discomfort and even preventing orgasm. That's my experience, and the reason that I am restoring what the doctor, who did it because he was paid, left me with. I won't get the Meissner Corpuscles back nor the frenulum, but sex should be a lot more pleasurable, and I'll be able to orgasm again.
Hilltopper2549 10 months ago
@Hilltopper2549 Ever hear of lube dumb ass? There's a hundred different brands.
Try again.
GeneralHoohah 10 months ago
@GeneralHoohah Yes, I've heard of lube, bought all sorts, and none of them are as good as the natural stuff that the body makes, and all cost money to buy.. By the way, your use of verbal insult indicates the weakness of your argument.
Hilltopper2549 10 months ago
@GeneralHoohah, the fact that there are many lubes available in no way alters the UNETHICAL nature of routine infant or newborn circumcision. Circumcision of minors is very uncommon in England and the rest of Europe (done nearly always on Jews/Muslims), and no British medical authority expresses any regret over our low circumcision rate.
Routine circumcision has no net medical benefit. There are risks associated with the surgery (as well as loss of penile tissue).
psandbergnz 10 months ago
@psandbergnz I don't see how its unethical, that sounds like an emotional irrational response. You'll have to convince me with carefully chosen words of intellect, not words inspired by irrational emotions. I had it done to me, and I'm very glad my mother made that choice. She's not religious so it had nothing to do with that. I see it as an improvement. I've also known two other men who had it done later in life and they wished their parents had done it when they were a baby.
GeneralHoohah 10 months ago
@GeneralHoohah, if any form of female genital cutting is unethical (without consent), then the same applies to males. Ethics embraces both genders equally!
You're glad you were cut (forced on you!), because you have no way to change your condition. The USA is obsessed with male genital mutilation (80% circ'd), so you think it is normal. Foreskin took millions of years to evolve. It is functional tissue.
Foreskin problems are rare, and usually correctable less invasively than by surgery.
psandbergnz 10 months ago
@psandbergnz Again these are emotional responses. And its not the same thing as cutting off a woman's clitoris, g-sport, or anything else.
The foreskin is gross, I would choose to have it taken off if my mother hadn't when I was a kid. You probably grow up in a country where you're taught from a young age, that its bad for emotional irrational reasons. Mutilation is an irrational reason.
GeneralHoohah 10 months ago
@GeneralHoohah, ethics is hardly an "emotional" response, and neither have I compared male circumcision to cliterodectomy! Not all types of FGM cut the clitoris; some are no more invasive than male circumcision, yet ALL types of FGM are banned in the USA. "Labiaplasty" (removal of FEMALE FORESKIN, i.e. inner labia and clitoral hood) is homologous with male circumcsision. Would it be ethical to routinely perform labiaplasty on girls, just because some adult women choose it for themselves?
psandbergnz 10 months ago
@GeneralHoohah you're absolutely sick & deranged. What are you doing looking at other people's genitals to determine that it is "gross"? r u a dick watcher? You sound perverted. Do you consider the female genitals 'gross'?? It sounds like you may never have seen them. You're in massive denial and respond in the classic way as in desperation to defend your mutilated (by amputation) state. You have lost a substantial amount of ecstatic pleasures for life with no natural protection. ENJOY!!!
trident3b 9 months ago
@GeneralHoohah "You'll have to convince me with carefully chosen words of intellect... I had it done to me, and I'm very glad my mother made that choice." This suggests that you had sex at the age of about one day old, perhaps with the local nurse i.e. a day after birth, decided that it wasn't great shakes, babbled in baby language that it might be an idea to tear off the FS & try again. After healing, now 6 months old, there was the improvement!! Boy must u have been glad to have had it done!
trident3b 9 months ago
Watch the video" foreskin explained with animation" and I'm sure you will immediately change your opinion of the foreskin being gross after you see what important function the foreskin provides.
TheYellowtulip 3 weeks ago
@Hilltopper2549 Again that's a preference. Some girls like it rough. :D
GeneralHoohah 10 months ago
@GeneralHoohah I hope you realize that the rest of the modern world reads your comments and wonder if you have ever lived outside of the US, dated women in europe or talked wtih women who have actually had sex with both uncircumcised and circumcised men.
American women are very ignorant as a general rule about male anatomy and the purpose of the foreskin, and they have been brainwashed into this hygiene issue that is irony at its finest. The female genitalia have more hygiene issues.
neechee5150 7 months ago
@neechee5150 Actually it does help with hygiene, not for the sake of the guy but for the woman. Germs and bacteria, lint, hair, etc can hide under folds of skin... and if it ends up in the woman, it can cause some problems. I knew a girl a few years ago. Anyway, she got something and the doc actually found a small piece of something deep down in her and it caused an infection. Turns out it traveled from her bf into her during sex... and guess what! He wasn't circumcised.
GeneralHoohah 7 months ago
@GeneralHoohah . "Germs and bacteria, lint, hair, etc can hide under folds of skin(clitoral hood, labia minora, labia majora)... and if it ends up in the [man], it can cause some problems"
Once again, in a country where soap and water are plentiful and daily hygiene is expected and affordable, if hygiene was truly the reason or an adequate reason, baby girls would be getting surgically altered too. Your anecdote is very suspicious at best. What was the specific piece of something?
neechee5150 7 months ago
@GeneralHoohah Untily you name the specific piece of something and prove that the object could only be and was infact transferred due to circumcision status, your argument is a fallacy. As the vulva is plentiful in germs, fungus, lint, hair, femine hygiene product debris, menstrual blood residue,urine residue, shaving by products or wax, it is equally feasable that one or more of these kinds of debris was loged in the woman by a sex toy, inserting a tampon, or sex with a cirucmicised man.
neechee5150 7 months ago
@psandbergnz Baby boy is here and he is whole and perfect!
PeskyPCOS 10 months ago
@PeskyPCOS, CONGRATULATIONS! Why not do another small video with your experience having an "intact" boy, and whether you encountered any opposition to your decision? Are there many American neighbours and friends who made the same choice as you? I believe it's around "50:50" nowadays in the USA (depending on where you live).
psandbergnz 10 months ago
@PeskyPCOS Congrats on the baby, but honestly i don't see a problem with circumcision, just like you didn't before you heard all the "bad" things about it. An uncircumcised penis could be just as fatal as cut one. Each have benefits, and each have faults, it's all a matter of opinion really. I've been with 5 uncut guys and the rest were cut, neither seemed to be less sexually aroused then the other. But i prefer cut becauseit just feels better. But i respect your opinion, unlike some extremists
Kickhiminthegonads 10 months ago
@Kickhiminthegonads I understand what you are saying but really the point of the video is just to say that I think if a man wants to be circumcised then that should be his choice when he is older. I wouldn't want anyone cutting my labia off for example. It is a mans choice and I support the right to choice for men. continued.
PeskyPCOS 10 months ago 11
@PeskyPCOS Please also remember that the labia is a different component (& of course female), but it does not equate to the foreskin. The FS has sophisticated membranes (found nowhere else on the human body) on the underside containing nerve endings that provide indescribable ecstatic sexual pleasure and constitute by far the acutest erogenous zone. I cannot speak for women's sensations (as some women actually have the audacity to attempt to know what a man feels) but the L'min is not as the FS.
trident3b 9 months ago
@PeskyPCOS I couldn't let this comment go as you are showing the kind of ignorance that makes this topic so contentious. Yes a female can safely have a labia minora reduction in adulthood. Adult male circumcision on the other hand is a very high risk proceedure & can lead to serious complications. The only time an adult male might have such a procedure done is because of health reasons or infection issues. Infant male circumcison is safe and a matter for the parents to decide.
Pendu068 1 month ago
@Kickhiminthegonads What men do with their body parts are their own business and just because I am a mother does not mean I have the right to alterf that away. Babies are so helpless and they rely on us to protect them. Seeing my little baby so helpless when he was born just strengthened my resolve.
PeskyPCOS 10 months ago
@PeskyPCOS Good job on making the right decision.
unlike the parents who have gotten their sons circumcised, *you* aren't taking the risk of your son hating you for stealing away a valuable piece of his manhood... a piece of a male's manhood that can never be brought back in his entire life. not in this time, at least.
maybe future medical advancements will allow depressed men to fully restore their foreskins.
OyonTheAdept 10 months ago
@Kickhiminthegonads "An uncircumcised penis could be just as fatal as cut one."
Considering that over 100 and perhaps more die each year in the US from circumcision, I must ask you to please elaborate. I am aware of NO fatal condition simply by having intact genitalia. The foreskin is not a birth defect.
lochinvar00465 10 months ago
@Kickhiminthegonads "An uncircumcised penis could be just as fatal as cut one."
Considering that over 100 and perhaps more die each year in the US from circumcision, I must ask you to please elaborate. I am aware of NO fatal condition simply by having intact genitalia. The foreskin is not a birth defect.
lochinvar00465 10 months ago
@Kickhiminthegonads What if I preferred the absence of labia minora or the clitoral hood? Why is that procedure not available for my future daughters?
feministsAreCorrupt 10 months ago
@Kickhiminthegonads you're mentally deficient, make irresponsible remarks & u r 100% incompetent to comment on such a subject since you r from the opposite sex. If you don't see a problem with it (how can you, you have demonstrated that u r a female & an ignoramus and suffer from diminished responsibility) that I STRONGLY suggest you go to your nearest clinic and have your labia minora & clitoral hood totally removed and some 50% of your clitoris. Please, please go and do it now. I'll pay.
trident3b 9 months ago
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Atlanta lawyer wins $11 million lawsuit for family in botched circumcision, Monday July 19, 2010. The baby identified only as L.G., lost the entire glans, or head, of his penis after it was pulled into the jaws of the clamp, according to a federal magistrate's order. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein ordered Mogen Circumcision Instruments of New York to pay $10.8 million in compensatory and punitive damages to the Florida boy, now 3, and his parents.
EnoFrisk 1 year ago
Your putting your decision in the public domain despite the Jewishness of your respective families of origin, was a bolder act than I am capable of. My SO completely agrees that baby boys should be left intact, but would NOT agree with announcing that fact to the world. Special hugs your spouse, for his willingness to break with 25 centuries of Jewish tradition. Many European and Latin American Jewish families no longer do bris but keep quiet about it.
alnot01 1 year ago
Never heard of PCOS before. My SO and I battled infertility for a number of years.
alnot01 1 year ago
My sons not circumcised, he is 4 years old now, and he is around his cousins and things like that and he noticed his was different and he ask my why and he told me he wanted it different. So I don't know if its just a stage he will grown out of, or if he will always have that in the back of his head. I couldn't afford it when he was born, and it really wasn't a big deal for me. and I know men that are not and they enjoy their sex life and are fine with it. So hopefully he will be fine!
uniqueme22 1 year ago
@uniqueme22 Well hun I think you made the right choice. Your son can have it done when he is older. Kids want to fit in. He might not feel the same way when he is an adult. Check out those docs I posted. On Circumcision it's very interesting. If you don't want to really watch the whole things. forward to 37 minutes in the 2nd doc I posted not the Penn and Teller one. They spend about 5 minutes talking about how important the forskin is for sexual function early and later on in life. :)
PeskyPCOS 1 year ago
@PeskyPCOS If I have a son this time I am not circumcising him either. I think it is up to them when they get older. Plus have one done and the other isn't right to me, cause Preston would be like why is he done and I am not? You know. So I love the video you gave me the link to so far, It makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much,
uniqueme22 1 year ago
@PeskyPCOS Wait, isn't there a chance of death if he waits too long?
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever - A baby died in south dakota less then a year ago because of a circ. infection. Like any surgery even when a child carrys the risk of chance of death. Babies get infections all the time for it but it usally is not life threatining. When you are an adult circ. carrys the same risk as well because of Anesthesia and infection and such. Usually it's not an issue for either baby or adult. But death and infection do happen.
PeskyPCOS 1 year ago 8
@PeskyPCOS Thanks. I didn't know the exact reason why they would die but this makes sense. . . . . . .Now that I think about it the only reason why circ. might have killed grown men in ancient times was that not much could kill the pain (that and infection). Peace.
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@PeskyPCOS One baby in the US dies every year due to complications directly from circumcision. In one year, the same hospital in Atlanta, Georgia caused two infant deaths due to circumcision, but that is the cluster effect.
feministsAreCorrupt 10 months ago
@feministsAreCorrupt actually, it's around 100 deaths per year in the USA alone.
heh. the USA, in my opinion, is a relatively advanced country. here, the circumcision rates are going down.
but imagine how many deaths from circumcisions there are in muslim countries that aren't as advanced as the USA.
kind of scary...
OyonTheAdept 10 months ago
@NeverAloneForever Why remove the most sensitive part of his penis in the first place? When he understands the importance of it, he won't envy his friends any more. He'll feel sorry for them. If your son asked you to have his arm surgically removed so he can be like a pirate, would you also consider it? Protect your son, all of it.
seymourLlama 1 year ago 2
@uniqueme22 You made the right decision for the only real reason and that is there is no reason to circumcise one's child whether jewish , muslim, atheist no matter there is no medical reason. As far as the explanation for your son, tell him the truth after you find out what that truth is and this woman's husband is absolutely right....."FIRST DO NO HARM"
JstNEarthling 1 year ago
@uniqueme22 You should tell your kid it's because his cousin's parents had a part of his penis cut off. Phrase it like that, and he won't envy them.
TheWorstWarlock 1 year ago
@uniqueme22 Just explain to him that his cousins had a piece of their penises cut off when they were babies and that you did not want to do that to him. Also tell him that lots of boys have penises like his and it is very normal. It can be difficult for a child if they feel different from all the other kids around them, especially in an area as personal as the penis. Does you know if he has any friends who are intact?
endofscene 1 year ago
@uniqueme22 My man. Don't worry at all. Keep in mind that for thousands of years since the beginning of man, men have not circumcised. Its a fad that began 2000 years ago in the middle east by the tribe of Israel. That's. And they didn't start it based on anything but religious reasons. Because it had to do with giving up something important to you. part of your dick.
Dartha999 11 months ago
It's so nice to see a TTC/Pregnancy vlogger deciding not to circumcise and talking about it! I actually gave a speech against circumcision for a class a few weeks ago. I did a lot of research and there are so many studies that directly contradict each other, it's hard to sort through the facts. I strongly believe that everyone should watch a circumcision before they make up their mind.
xxxanity 1 year ago 2
@latinjuliet Oh thanks so much darlin I appriciate it! Your time is coming soon I know it! If you are interested check out those documentaries I posted on Circumcision. They are very interesting. Take care hun and I am so glad you are back and rested!
PeskyPCOS 1 year ago
eye opening experience :) thx
namsbali 1 year ago
Good for you for making ur own choices ! - My Dad was not circumcised & He had so much trouble through out his life that he choose 2 have it done for himself at 40 - NOT EASY as any man would guess-NOW with that said that does NOT mean that happens to Everyone-I'm just saying AFTER speaking with him in great detail & him begging us not to put his grandsons through what he had experienced we chose to have them done - Heres to our Love 4our children & the Hard choices we have to make (((HUG)))
OZARKCOTTONTOP 1 year ago
i have never thought about this topic till we found out we were having a boy(he didnt make it) but i just told my husband that it was up to him because i know nothing about male parts because i never had one... and all he said is i want my son to have the samething i have... so no circumcision for us.. plus i looked into alot of studies and i agree with my husband.. im proud of you for taking on such a tough subject.. thanks!!
angeljohnnie 1 year ago
First I have to say.. im not really passionate about anything other than fertility! haha. I think that hubby and i are TOTALLY going for the circumcision for social reasons like you said. I have seen an uncirc. and I was super freaked.. but besides that I guess its just the "norm" for us and I think EVERYONE should have their own choice and not have people jumping down anyones throat for their own choices. With anything! Breastfeeding, this, diapers, whatever it is.. we should have our choices!
TheTurnersJourney 1 year ago
@TheTurnersJourney Thanks so much for your comment. I really appriciate it :) May I just say before you completely make up your mind. Please check out the two documentaries that I posted. They are very interesting and they give pro and con reasons. Information is great to have. If you don't want to watch the whole documentary at least watch the second one I posted and forward to 37 minutes there is some very interesting information on circumcistion. Anyway thanks for your comment darlin :) hugs
PeskyPCOS 1 year ago
@PeskyPCOS I def. will. Like infertility I always make informed decision. I will watch them.
TheTurnersJourney 1 year ago
@TheTurnersJourney Thanks hun. Hope everything is going well with you. I like your new channel :)
PeskyPCOS 1 year ago
@TheTurnersJourney, if "everyone should have their own choice", then that very right applies to your SON! Americans, STOP treating your children like chattels! HIs/her body means his/her choice. Google: "foreskin function".
Does Michelangelo's statue of David freak you out? Its penis is whole! A circumcised penis on a work of art would look just what it is - disfigured/mutilated! As a membrane, the glans is supposed to be potected with a cover (when flaccid), just like your clitoris is!
psandbergnz 1 year ago 21
@psandbergnz your choice is yours.. mine is mine.
TheTurnersJourney 1 year ago
@TheTurnersJourney, but the choice would NOT be mine if I had had control-freak parents like you, now would it?! Subjecting a helpless baby to unnecessary circumcision has got to be wrong! No medical society advocates non-therapeutic circumcision. There are even risks associated with it, which every circumciser is obliged to advise parents of. Furthermore, there will be the loss of healthy functional tissue (which you and your husband don't understand), all to satisfy a silly whim of yours!
psandbergnz 1 year ago
@psandbergnz
The foreskin will usually still cover a circumcised penis when flaccid.
ChrisGnosis 11 months ago
@ChrisGnosis, don't be stupid, circumcision removes the foreskin, usually only leaving a vestige of it.
psandbergnz 11 months ago
@psandbergnz
I'm not sure what you are, but I'm a completely circumcised male. I think I'm aware of how my penis functions.
ChrisGnosis 11 months ago
@ChrisGnosis, you had a "loose" circumcision, although you lack the foreskin tip (namely "the ridged band"), which is where foreskin sensory nerves are most concentrated. But most circumcised men have insufficient foreskin to cover the glans (check out photos of circ'd penises to see).
As a European, I equate infant circumcision (alas, so common in the USA!) as mutilation. It is unethical to force it on a minor. Unnecessary genital cutting of babies conflicts with normal maternal instinct.
psandbergnz 11 months ago