Circumcision

With my third son, the doctor tried very hard to get me to reconsider circumcizing my son. He gave me a plethra of reasons why it is no longer really important and just as many reasons to talk me out of it.

It's just something we are supposed to do to our sons. My parents did it, I did it. Now there is a seed of doubt planted in my head about it and it left me feeling a little guilty. They say it is very traumatic but I don't remember a damn thing about mine. They make the parents stand way down the hall. There has to be some reason for that.

Oh well, what's done is done. My baby days are behind me.
 
But they're different! I don't want to be different, so I should have surgery to look like other people. It doesn't matter if my natural ears can have some benefit, social conformity is a more important consideration.

Besides, I gather gunk behind them and my mother never taught me to clean behind them. Surgery is definitely the answer.

(I'm not kidding, I gather junk behind them and my mother never emphasised cleaning behind them. It's rather disgusting)
 
I can tell you it is ..... stitches and all. Especially when your 3-year old son comes running into the room and jumps into your lap (" Momie, why is Daddy crying"?)
 
Amazing how over the top you get.

Having circumcision, for whatever reason be it health belief or religious, hardly equates to going along and hacking off a person's arm or leg
 
Okay. Traumatic? If this is something desired, will that really be the deciding factor?



Yes, some women find circumcised men more attractive "down there". You should be aware, though, that some women find uncircumcised men more attractive, and more sexually attentive. Again, why are you deciding this for him? This continues to seem absurd to me. In the aesthetic department, to say nothing of the actual sexual effects, this would be like you deciding what hairstyle he must wear when he goes out to meet women. Crooked teeth are a problem that you are correcting. When he has problems attracting women because of his penis let him correct that when there is a problem. If he meets a woman that this is a problem for then he can weigh whether he wants to be with so shallow a woman. Men really do get through life perfect when they are uncircumcised.



Supposedly, there should be a benefit when you surgically alter your son. There is slim to no benefit when you circumcise your son. The loss, though not devestating, he has suffered because of this is not outweighed by aesthetics, imo.



Then, for goodness sakes, why do it with no second thought? To surgically alter his penis when there are at the very least an equal number of women who either do not care or prefer uncircumcised men seems absolutely absurd. This is just one more surgery that can go horribly wrong, and provides no real benefit. The downsides seem to greatly outweigh any possible upside.

Were this to happen to me I would have some serious questions to ask my mother when I found out what I lost. "Why" would be at the top of that list. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree. Doing something with these detriments when there is no evidence that there will be any problem for purely aesthetic reasons just seems absurd to me.
 
First of all - I am just joking around. The point about the girls was simply me saying that although I find the practice unwarranted and mean, I also don't get to worked up over it. And I read several posts in here where it was said that women prefer the look/feel/taste of the circumcised penis and at least one poster said he chose to circumcise their son for aethsetic reasons.

As a rule genetilia is not attractive on anyone. To quote Robin Williams - "its like an industrial film covered in fur".
 
What experiences were those that led you to wish to have this done?

Why shouldn't your son be able to make that same decision?

Unless you have problems keeping your genitals clean, and as long as you actually clean yourself this wouldn't usually be a problem, there really is no reason to do this. Since the foreskin is sensitive and, from what I've heard, will change the sexual experience it seems to make no sense to do something irreversable before your boy can decide for himself whether its too much trouble to take care of.
 
Good point. I was circumcised at 30 and can speak re before and after. I realize that I speak only for myself when I say there was no difference in sensitivity or the quality of sex. In my case, that bit of extra skin made no difference and was not missed. For those that feel they derive additional pleasure from foreskin (but have no way of really knowing), I say ENJOY.
 
I know something of oral sex with an uncircumcized penis. As long as it's kept clean oral sex is not a problem. There are or can be benefits to having an uncircumcised penis. It makes no sense to cut it off because you don't want to keep it clean.

I do correctly describe that a hardened penis is a less sensitive penis. I am not judging sex as better either way (since it would depend on both the man and woman in question), only different. I do not believe predetermining what way your son must have it is a good decision. Let him decide when he meets a woman he loves and if she prefers a circumcised penis he can do it then.

Circumcision won't ruin a man's life (unless it's botched... and that can happen), but his life, especially his sex life, most likely will be different. There's little point, so why go through one more thing that can go wrong?
 
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