meow_173

See now theres a good site, a little more ephasis on the cirumcision decision, but at least they give a bit on both sides

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yulia

Some good info from those doctors who no longer wish to make their $$$ on cutting off a healthy body part and therefore, no longer have to lie and hide the truth around male genital mutilation

Doctors Opposing Circumcision Publications

http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/DOC/publications.html

You can also contact them with any questions you may have.

musicmom

Skyburning

All I have to say to the "he's going to lose girlfriends" argument is that I can only hope to have someone love me for who I am and not what my genitals look like. Why would you WANT your son to spend his life with someone so shallow?

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yulia

yep, I've heard foreskin being called a shallow woman filter

musicmom

Elsevier Article Locator
Hail to jesus. On with the circumcision!!!

FooserX

lol....funny.

yulia

ljmahr

I was going through and reading this thread and thought of a few things.
It was brought up that it should not be the parents choice whether to circ or not. What age do you think they should be able to make this decision? If they wait isn't it more tramatic? Will they have higher risks of horrible things happening then?
Another thing, the question about a female being circ'd. If it was something a parent had a choice to do for religious or cultural beliefs so be it. BUT it isn't here in the US so that doesn't even compare to male circ.
Right now my hubby and I are leaning toward circ. our son who will be born in Sept. We are doing it for personal and health reasons. I am still doing a bit more research about it and will continue to the day he is born.

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Laura

Mommy to 4 beautiful girls and 1 handsome boy

yulia

If an adult wants to get circumcised, it’s definitely his body and therefore, his choice. There are benefits of being circumcised as an adult vs. as an infant.
- adequete pain relieve during and after procedure (also keep in mind that adults don’t pee and poop on the raw wound from circimcision the way babies do);
- significantly less chance of taking too much skin since the penis is ful grown size and no need to ‘guesstimate’;
- prosess of keratinization and partual loss of sensitivity will be much less due to glans being protected by the foreskin all the years preor circumcision;
- his body, his choice! not being ripped off from the basic right of genital integrity and the right to choose whether to preform this cosmetic sergery on the body or not. No one should ever have a right to alter genitals of another person! Kids are NOT a parent’s property!