Real Questions - What are the pros and cons of circumcision?

[neechee5150]

Dr. Rampal:

You completely ommitted the cons of infant circumcision. You left out the risk involved and the range of complications that occur ranging from excessive bleeding, scars, infection, partial and or complete penis amputation and last but not least death. You are far from objective and as a doctor you should be ashamed of your one sidedness on this issue.

Yes circumcision is a personal choice Dr. Rampal-so go and have a clitoral hoodectomy.

[pendragonU]

...and on the "other side" it is more of the same "reduction" to cut because the father wants to give the son the same? What logic is that and how is the TWO ways to look at it? And she is a doctor? in which science with no brains?

[OyonTheAdept]

whether or not his son should get circumcised is not up to the father!

bull shit! it's up to the owner himself.

[Chadolution]

Circumcision does NOT prevent STDs...it does NOT prevent UTIs or any other disease. Condoms prevent disease and pregnancy. Please, tell the truth here. I'm so tired of people making false claims to promote circumcision. The decision should be up to the ADULT OWNER OF THE PENIS / BODY. No one else should be removing a healthy, normal, functioning body part.

[utoobmark]

Parents who want their sons circumcised should go fuck themselves until the insanity passes.

[MJapan555]

If you want to circumcise him ladies. Just do it.

[kelowguy]

UCLA posted this? What a complete fail!!!

[dilmo22]

I think girls should be all cut up.

It prevents all kinds of stuff, and it's my religion.

[kleenex3000]

Ther personal preference makes me angry. It is obviously not the personal preference of the very owner of the PrePuce, to become WELCOMED to this world by a genital alteration.

This kind of body modification should beCOME regarded as what it actually is, a personal preference (of people that they already lost their PP), NAMELY [the cult of] KRYPTO-fetishism.

[TLCTugger]

Two-thirds of US circumcisions are done by OB/GYNs, to someone who IS NOT their patient, not even within their specialty! WTF is up with that? (Hint: $ $ $)

Foreskin feels REALLY good. HIS body, HIS decision.

[madbr3991]

fail title says pros and con but she listed no cons.

what about

*ethics

*possibility of death

*sexual function

this video is a fail. i expect better from a doctor or nurse. before i would ever let them cut on me. 

[joelface]

What is the function of the foreskin?

What will he miss out on without a foreskin?

Do you have the RIGHT to remove a NORMAL, SENSITIVE, FUNCTIONAL part of his body?

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How many of these things did she address? None.

EPIC FAIL

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UCLAHealth... What a HORRIBLE answer. Please re-do this video with a less biased response.

The RISKS of the procedure are GREATER. Since when do we refer to normal body parts as having "complications". If so, we better start with the female genitals.

Re-Do It!

[drealgrin]

I want to have my son's left ring finger cut off because mine was. It's a personal decision i ask that doctors respect. Because afterall, since my finger was taken away from me in a time of medical ignorance and fear mongering my son should have his robbed as well.

[alnot01]

Her remarks deserve a fail because she did not address the sexual role of the foreskin, and the occasional complications from doing it.

The only part of the human body American parents are allowed to remove from their children, for personal reasons they are not required to articulate and defend, is the male foreskin. Why?? This should be the choice of the adult owner of the foreskin, not one his parents make for him when he is 1-2 days old.

[esornepregor]

Interesting(but sadly not surprising) how the father asked for Pros AND Cons and the answerer did not give him any cons. *Sigh

Asking an OBGYN whether or not to cut off part of your son's penis is like asking your local butcher whether or not you should become a vegetarian.

[freedom0speech]

The 3 MOST IMPORTANT things you need to ask, and learn, BEFORE you can even begin to think about “benefits” are:

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What is the fuction of the foreskin?

What will he miss out on without a foreskin?

Do you have the RIGHT to remove a part of his body?

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How many of these things did she address? None.

FAIL

[utoobmark]

@freedom0speech This comment is right on. She is so consumed with the bullshit of "Circumcision reduces UTIs blah blah blah..." that she forgets to mention what circumcision REALLY reduces. Circumcision reduces human rights. Circumcision reduces penile sensitivity. Circumcision can reduce sexual pleasure for the man and the woman. Circumcision reduces lubrication during sexual activity.

[freedom0speech]

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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Fine-Touch Pressure Thresholds In The Adult Penis

British Journal of Urology International,

2007, Vol. 99, No. 4, 864-869

Sorrells et al.