Circumcision

While the decision whether or not to circumcise a child is typically based religious, cultural and family traditions, there may also be some health concerns to consider. In this Children's Channel video podcast, Melissa Houser, MD, Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics -- New Philadelphia office, provides an overview of these and other considerations for parents making this very personal decision.

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[joelface]

Why don't people circumcise? This hack of a doctor says "oh, they're too afraid."

...how about THIS little un-mentioned reason: NO NATIONAL MEDICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE ENTIRE WORLD RECOMMENDS IT.

The foreskin has thousands upon thousands of highly-specialized fine-touch nerve endings like those in the fingertips and lips. It also provides sexual and protective functionality.

Melissa Houser is either grossly misinformed or deliberately misleading. Neither reflects well on her. POOR video.

[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.

[ReallyWWWThinking]

I can't believe the lack of accurate information from a doctor & children's hospital. This is absolutely shameful. A medical resource should be trusted to give real medical information & not cultural myths & misleading statistics that aren't even cited. Terrible.

[MidMASS2]

@Chadolution The foreskin isn't fused to the glans, you're a liar and an idiot. 99% of boys can retract their foreskins by age 14.

[7777Hugh]

@TLCTugger I beat you to it!

[Mystoksor]

If it's a "personal decision" then what right does a parent have to make it for his child? Doesn't every human deserve the basic right to bodily autonomy?

[TLCTugger]

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[TLCTugger]

Hey!  LADY! You forgot something.

Forcibly amputating healthy normal sexual parts is wrong.

Not one national medical association on earth (not even Israel's) endorses routine circumcision. This includes the bodies who have revised their policies SINCE the research on HIV in Africa has been available.

Amputative non-therapeutic cosmetic surgery is NOT morally a parent's choice or a medical issue.

[Hugh7777]

@artguy149 I'll stand in for him.

Foreskin feels REALLY good.

HIS body, HIS choice.

[Hugh7777]

And she doesn't mention the main reason to JUST LEAVE A BABY'S PENIS ALONE - because it's HIS body, HIS choice, when he is old enough to make it, and he'll almost always choose to keep it all.

[Hugh7777]

2:50: "Be quick! This offer won't last!"