Most Mericans are cut right after birth. Of course some wait almost a year or two for religious reasons.

Unjoy,
Das Twit

The bearded woman.

I'm sure there are some American women who would be OK with an uncircumsized man but to be honest, I don't know any.

Well, that's your loss....

Hardly. I wouldn't trade my nicely circumsized husband for the world.
No loss here.

Made me also think of that scene from planet of the apes, where they all worship a nuclear bomb in some kind of church and they take off their facial skin? You think everyone's normal but suddenly you realise you're abnormal...

-Jocelyn

I think that that's a myth perpetuated in this country (maybe Dr.Goldstein and Dr Silverman have something to do with it). I've never heard anybody have a cancer of the foreskin. It's barbaric if you ask me, god gave us the skin for a reason.

There was a hilarious article in Big Brother skate mag about this.

On a more serious note: http://www.nocirc.org/articles/gollaher.html

Jeff, do you take your computer to your toilet? Hope you're feeling better mate.

Atually I wrote "In that region" and not of the foreskin. Now I've read a number of articles about what cutting can do (positive and negaitve) over the years, and I think it really doesn't matter at at all if you ask me. Then again I've never been with anyone who's been either circomsized or non-circomsized, well other then myself of course!

>Jeff, do you take your computer to your toilet? Hope you're
>feeling better mate.

Naw, I'm at work causing trouble with half the post production houses in town and running to the lue every now and again. I'm much better this morning it would appear. but I need lots of caffine for the lack of sleep I got most of the night.

Unjoy,
Das Twit

- Mike

Because if you ask them when they're old enough, "Would you like us to hack off part of your weewee, they're going to grab their goods and run for the door!

I don't sport the turtleneck, and I'm happy with my little soldier.

I guess, like everything else it comes down to preference. If you like it, have you children get the procedure, if not, don't!

scott

"I forgave my enemies,
but I never forgot their names" DBL

<<Cleanliness is the reason I hear most frequently.>>

Well, everytime this pops up, kinda offends me. Maybe cleanliness was an issue a century ago, when people didn't have running water but even then I don't see how it can be an issue. Unless you are a smelly bum who takes showers once a month but then, there would be other parts of your body that would smell much worse......

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We didn't do our two boys and I think every single reason that is produced to defend this crap does not hold water, in the least.

Cleanliness? We are the most hyper clean society in the world. A lot of us take TWO showers a day. That is not an issue.

To prevent CANCER? That one is great...Name another body part that we remove preemptively to prevent cancer? You can't because we don't.
Just think of the hundreds of thousands of women's lives we would save if we removed women's breasts at puberty? Sounds barbaric huh?
Why isn't chopping off a part of my penis regarded the same?
There is a REASON that we have them and it's damn arrogant to think that we can chop them because we "know better".

You are taking off a part of a body that has been working just fine for hundreds of thousands of years. You better have a DAMN good reason to cut it off before you bring out the scissors, other than "Daddy looks like that and I want Bobby to also...

We have to take the time to examine "traditions" in our culture to determine the TRUE reason's that we keep things like this going.
Lay it all out on the table. If you can't really table anything other than "because", well it may be time to think about the merits of permanetly altering your boy's sex organ.
Let him decide if he wants to go there when he is old enough to make that decision. No one would tattoo a kid until he is old enough to understand the ramifications, but we as parents will remove his foreskin without knowing the ramifications to his future sex life.

My 2C.

Scott

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I reckon we should let kids decide at 18 if they want to lose it or not. See how many people, without a real medical reason, would actually decide to do it. Kids are people too, you know. We let our son decide.

For me it's simply a religious issue.

That exact same thing happened to us. Our first boy had a male pediatrician and our second boy had a female pediatrician. Both boys were circumsised differently. The first one came back with a pasti bell ring on and the second came back with it wrapped in gauze and he seemed a lot more happier than the first one. Maybe different types of circumsision are more painful than others. Thank goodness they dont remember it!!