Deciding Not to Cirmsize? Good or bad?

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Deciding Not to Cirmsize? Good or bad?
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Sun, 08-05-2007 - 12:13pm
What do you men think about not getting circumsized? Prefer it? Think it's gross? Are you yourself fully uncut??

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Registered: 06-24-2004
Wed, 08-08-2007 - 7:50pm

I was cut when I was born and for a long time felt like I was missing something. I even went as far as to try to re-stretch it. (I'll explain via personal e-mail if you want to know.) I now have a little loose skin after ?10 years or so of trying. I know I know you can't miss what you have never had, but why? I am very much AGAINST!! To me it seems as though the mother just wants to be lazy and not clean a little extra while her son is in diapers and rob him of what God gave him for the rest of his life.

ARRH!!

Well enough of my little rant~

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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 9:04pm

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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 9:52pm

I agree with Tish. My sons are 12 and 15, and they are both cut. Seems everyone they know is cut too, so I guess the trend was still continuing. As with Tish, that was all I had ever known. I also did daycare and cared for many babies and young children over a 12 year period of time. I never encountered an uncut male in that bunch either.



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Registered: 02-04-2007
Wed, 08-08-2007 - 11:12pm

I have to echo what the others have said about your outrageous statement. When I had my son 2 1/2 years ago, my husband and I made an educated, mutual decision to have our son circumcised. It had nothing to do with me being lazy and not wanting to take the extra time to clean him properly. It had more to do with the fact that my grandfather and father, while not circumcised at birth, had to get circumcised by the time they were five years old due to medical reasons. Unfortunately, for my son, they did not take off enough skin at birth and he has to be re-circumcised. I have brought him to 3 separate pediatric urologists, and all three say he needs the procedure done again. Now do you really think I want to put him through more pain, just so I can be lazy? As it is now, he is in pain everyday, and he tells me. There are some males out there that have extremely sensitive skin and need to be circumcised.

I'm sorry, your comment really struck a nerve with me. I don't think anyone has a right to make a “blanket statement” saying circumcision is wrong. It just sounds so ignorant.

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Thu, 08-09-2007 - 12:54pm
Sorry to have offended any-one.

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Thu, 08-09-2007 - 1:40pm

As a Jew, I didn't have any choice in the matter, but I like my uncurcumcised penis. And as someone else posted, the idea that I'm missing out on sensation is laughable. Sex is incredible, masturbation is great, and the notion that I'm missing out on some essential experience is foreign to me.

As a bi man, I also have a unique perspective. In my experience, uncircumcised men tend to be a little smellier, especially at the end of the day. Its fun to have the extra skin to play with with my tongue, but I think circumcised men smell better. While someone who';s clean everywhere else will have a clean penis, there's just no way to get around the fact that a certain amount of sweat, urine, lint, or whatever will accumulate inside the foreskin. I wouldn't ever avoid a man with a foreskin, but I prefer one without.

My son is circumcised, but he had it done in the hospital instead of in shul. His mother insisted.

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Thu, 08-09-2007 - 5:18pm
My personal preferance is circumsized males. Both DH's were circumsized and in 95, DH and I choose to have our Son circumsized too. Since insurance companies had already started to deny payment for this, we had to pay for it ourselves. I was in attendance for the procedure and tho DS was tied to a board, he was numbed with a topical anesthestic and didn't seem to notice anything. The only thing I noticed was redness and tenderness for a couple of days and by the time the ring came off, it appeared as nothing had occured. No I don't feel any guilt because I figure that being born male, he's already got advantages in the pain department ( he'll never experience menstrual cramps, painfull and destructive child birth, painfull IC, etc ), so any pain and discomfort he experienced as a newborn is small and he can't remember it anyway. He gets to grow up and not have to worry about phimosis and balanoposthitis that really causes pain that they do remember.
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Registered: 02-28-2006
Thu, 08-09-2007 - 5:55pm
Physiological Phimosis will only occur in roughly 1% of uncircumcised males, and even then will require treatment only if it causes obvious problems such as urinary discomfort or obstruction (I myself have this condition, and it causes me no urinary or sexual ill effects whatsoever).


As for balanoposthitis, while some studies indicate the prevalence is less in circumcised males, circumcision is by no means a guaranteed preventive measure for balanoposthitis, and the sample sizes of uncircumcised males in those studies are small enough to lack statistical significance.

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Thu, 08-09-2007 - 8:04pm

Hi Everyone,


Please remember that LTAS is not a debate board and is also not a parenting board.

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