Who cares! The health and hygeine benefits far outweight the little bit of extra pleasure you might get.

That little bit of passed information is SOOOOOO unbelievably false, and really needs to be stopped. Male circumcision for a 'health and hygine' reasons is roughly equivalent to labia removal for women. The amount of potential bacteria which could collect in the uncleaned foreskin is the same amount that could collect in folds of the labia. I'm cut, both of my sons are cut, but if I WASN'T there is no way I would do it to my sons. Males were not created with a hygenic 'flaw' which needs to be removed with their foreskin. If you decide to circumcize your sons do it for religious reasons, do it because of tradition, do it so they are not ridiculed by their peers, but for God's sake don't do it because you believe that having a foreskin is unhealthy or unhygenic.

There are no hygiene benefits whatsoever, and health benefits are questionable - and not worth the risks involved in the operation (unless you live in a third world nation).

Preventive amputations should not be done by parents, if someone wants parts of themselves removed to reduce risk of certain types of diseases, they can do it when they're adults.

There's actually talk in Canada now that parents can be charged with assault if they get their child circumcised. The thought being that it's a cosmetic surgery done for no real purpose other than social pressure.

It's funny. This topic is one of those topics that people are strongly divided on, almost always based on whether they or their spouse is circumcised.

Just out of interest, if you're so against circumcision, why did you get your sons done?

I'm not actually against it...just against it for the raft of bulls**t which includes hygenic reasons. If you have kids....you know they ask a LOT of questions, and explaining that your parents decided to cut the skin off of YOUR pee pee, but we didn't want to do that to you makes Grandma and Grandpa seem a little sadistic before they understand the whole issue. Where I live most boys are cut. I didn't even realize penii didn't all look like mine from birth untill I was in 7th grade.

Fair enough. I think there are plenty of ways of explaining things to kids though. I'm not done but my dad is. It never occurred to me as a kid that my Grandparents were sadistic, mainly because I didn't understand the procedure, just the results. To me it was kind of like your hair colour - some people were, others wern't - it didn't get any deeper than that.

It seems that 99% of people just get their kids done as they were without much forethought*



*see what I did there? :)

How about the fact that an uncircumsised penis looks disgusting. My ex-boyfriend had one and he would grow these "papule" things all around his head that looked like barnacles. I looked it up and found out that was normal for uncircumsized men. So when I had a son years later, I did the right thing. Ridicule about your penis I'm sure is a big deal. Screw the hygiene argument.

I'm fine living in the stone age with my hygeinic circumcised penis.

I'm pretty sure a Female's bacterial growth in her nether-regions is processed differently than a Male's. Mostly due to the fact that there is a difference in the type of bodily secretions from Estrogen to Testosterone, but also because a penis moves around, picks up stuff, flops back, so on.

Also, a vagina doesn't sweat except near the pubic hair area. Granted, a penis doesn't sweat directly either, but the testicle sling does and the penis rubs against that all day.

It could be varied from person to person, who knows. I do know that my youngest son wasn't "cut" as much as he should have been and just the little flap that remains causes us way more problems than my oldest son's did. And I have no problem with my daughter, as far as sores and smigma(spl?) buildup.

I've never heard of the "pauple" things but I'll take your word that they were benign. Don't you see that what you did though was a cosmetic amputation of part of your sons body? Something that looks disgusting is purely subjective. If you're used to looking at uncircumcised penii then they would look fine.

I think you just gave a pretty good argument for keeping that protective foreskin around.

I don't know why people keep selling the male gender short about cleanliness, but don't think most men who are uncircumcised find it really difficult to keep themselves "hygienic".

Leave it to a woman to want to control all the penis's in the house.

Castration is horrible and Western Culture is in denial that they are mutilating their male children's genitals per the tenets of their Neolithic theology...

Haha - I just had a "tea meets monitor" moment.

Except for the fact that it's not a "shield". it slides off and on throughout the course of movement, picking stuff up and trapping it underneath to include natural body fluids and oils.

Like someone already said, this is a 2 sided and obviously well divided subject. I will always advocate circumcision, and the younger, the better.

I like how the article quotes a study by "National Organization of Circumcision Information Resources Center" yet includes no link to any such study.

I also like how the initials spell out "NO CIRC".

I think you've all been had.

My son is circumsized and that was NOT my decision. I left that up to his father, since I wasn't a penis packer myself. LOL. I don't have one, so I don't see myself rightful to make that decision. My sons father decided, that yes, he wanted his son circ'd. No other reason than so he wouldn't look different than his dad.

It's a part of a penis, it works as a part of a penis should work, as nature intended it to work. Most men in the world (also most men in the western world) are uncircumcised and have no problems with their hygiene.

If you wash yourself less often than weekly, perhaps some differences would show - but other than that, it's a baseless argument.

It's a relatively common condition in both circumcised and uncircumcised penises.

Aesthetics is an opinion and it varies from person to person. In most countries a circumcised penis would be an oddity, and possibly ridiculed.

I'm not really one to comment on which kind of penis looks more pretty, but I've never had anyone ridiculing mine or stating that they'd prefer mutilated over untouched.

Some people might think labia minora looks ugly - that's not a reason to start advocating cutting them off.

well okay then :)