Circumcision and You

[Mr.Mo]

or muslim

but yeah thats what i meant.

@Megalomania

What does puberty have anything to do with circumsision? They aren't going to get a damn erection...

Why do most peopel think circumsision is cutting your penis, no its cutting the extra skin.

 

[Doctor]

I personally don't like the use of the word "extra". It's not "extra" skin. It's part of the male genital and has functions. But like anything, you can live without it if you don't have it.

Now, nobody thinks that it's about cutting off the entire thing, but face it, having any part of your body chopped off cannot be pleasant.

 

[Rain]

Circumsision can also be good for medical reasons later in life, for example the foreskin can be to small for the actual organ to get through without damaging and stretching the skin.

So unless it's for medical reasons, or choice then I don't think it should be done.

I'm no bible expert but I don't recall a page about the need to cut of peices of skin.

 

[Megalomania]

@Megalomania

What does puberty have anything to do with circumsision? They aren't going to get a damn erection...

Why do most peopel think circumsision is cutting your penis, no its cutting the extra skin.

Like I said, circumsision isn't my strong point.
However, for the records - I do know what part they cut... :-/

I was just saying - puberty is where your penis gows and develops more and stuff - and there could be a problem, not during the circumsision, but i nthe way your penis develops..
Like I said: I don't know, I don't research circumsision...

Although, I assume it's like having your fingernail removed while your hand is growing during childhood - would that analogy be correct?

 

[JD_Slasha]

I dunno... I was circumcised at 13 and it wasn't as horrific as it sounds.... it was a little painful but *snip* you're done, etc. The bad part was the next two weeks where I couldn't wear any form of underwear or pants...

That was atleast 6 years ago now... lookin' back it's not really that big of a deal. Everything functions as it should.

 

[Ceroscuro]

Cus it'd be something someone would CHOOSE to do, at that age. At least if they were Jewish.

Yeah but then if they kinda wanted it, they'd wish they'd had it when they were a baby so they didn't have to experience (what I would guess would be) excruciating fucking pain.

 

[Sabao]

Yeah but then if they kinda wanted it, they'd wish they'd had it when they were a baby so they didn't have to experience (what I would guess would be) excruciating fucking pain.

I know I felt that way before I was circumcised. :P

But seriously, it's not that horrible. You get over it in a few weeks tops. A few days of discomfort is nothing compared to years of pain later on. That's what I believe. Whether or not you decide to believe the same is completely up to you, and as for the matter of circumcision accidents, it doesn't happen very often, you can't let a few cases put you off.

 

[Nix]

My view is plain and simple:

I really don't care about the supposed medical benefits or problems of circumcision, or the cultural significance of it. Babies should not be circumcised because they're not old enough to be able to give consent as to whether they want to be circumcised. It's the boy's body, not his parents'. As far as I can see, it should be completely up to him.

 

[Doctor]

A few days of discomfort is nothing compared to years of pain later on.

That goes back to my example of chopping off your hand to avoid hitting it with a hammer later on in your life.

 

[Roman Candle]

More like chopping off your hand to avoid having gangreen in later life. You can get rid of gangreen, and you cannot stick your hand, (or more importantly, foreskin), back on. If an issue evolves due to not being circumcised, then you can just be circumcised. No problem whatsoever. If a problem arises due to having been circumcised, or you just want that part of your penis back, then you are screwed, royally. It's deeply unfair to ask the parents of a child, or the child himseld at eight, to make that choice.

 

[Mr.Mo]

Has anyone here ever got circumsised?

there is no pain.They don't take scissors and circumsize you. You are suppose to get cut by proffessionals(kinda like doctors, except they kind of just circumsize i believe), or at the hospital(mostly).

I was up in 3 days.

More like chopping off your hand to avoid having gangreen in later life. You can get rid of gangreen, and you cannot stick your hand, (or more importantly, foreskin), back on. If an issue evolves due to not being circumcised, then you can just be circumcised. No problem whatsoever. If a problem arises due to having been circumcised, or you just want that part of your penis back, then you are screwed, royally. It's deeply unfair to ask the parents of a child, or the child himseld at eight, to make that choice.

You can have troubles during in ANY surgery

Also, why would you want that part of the penis back? its uselss. Its like an appendix

I agree its unfair. But really, do you think the kid will care? Unless someone scared him by lying to him or by being ignorant about it.

I got circumsised when I was young, I have no mental problems, no pain, no nothing

The medical part is not a myth. The Aids(and other STDs) is, like Roman Candle said. Its helps better senetation. Mostly for kids.

Thinking that having skin over the penis will protect is not right. If anything it gets inside, it stays inside. Also there is taking a piss too.

 

[Kest]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(anatomy)

I'd think that's something you want to keep. You are thinking of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiform_appendix

 

[Mr.Mo]

thanks, I'll edit my post.

 

[Kest]

I'd like to point out this part:

Currently, the function of the appendix, if any, remains controversial in the field of human physiology.

...

One explanation has been that the appendix is a remnant of an earlier function, with no current purpose. (Note, however, that the pineal gland, which only recently (around 1960) was found to produce important chemicals such as melatonin, was once similarly considered a vestigial structure.)

 

[Doctor]

I'm annoyed when people consider the foreskin to be unclean. If you can't figure out how to wash under the foreskin, then you probably don't have enough brain power to walk and breath at the same time.

Also, The usefulness of the foreskin is still debatable. Some say it adds sexual pleasure (to both parties), others say it does not. Some say it acts as protection, others say it does not.

It's like these people can't agree on anything.

 

[Megalomania]

Also, The usefulness of the foreskin is still debatable. Some say it adds sexual pleasure (to both parties), others say it does not. Some say it acts as protection, others say it does not.

I think that when the foreskin gets dirty, and it has to be snipped off... it's just taking one for the team.

 

[Brandonn]

My son was born on the 5th, and we had him circumcised... I'm still not sure if I did the "right" thing. But I don't think that if I made the wrong choice that anything bad will come from it. At least he'll look like his daddy and brother . He parts got better pretty quick, but it was clear that he was in pain from it. You have to put vasalen on it for the first week or so, or it'll stick to the diaper, and you have to pull the skin back gently with diaper changes, or it could heal wrong. The whole idea behind getting it done soon after birth is that the baby's nerves aren't supposed to be as developed.

 

[AceJP]

The question here is how can something that promotes cleanliness in males...be so bad? What drives people to express extreme views like the guy I quoted from in the spoiler? It is a fact that being circumcised is more sanitary than being uncircumcised. The risks of infection are drastically reduced in a circumcised male than they are in an uncircumcised male...so what is the harm?

Amen.
I was circumcised when I was a wee tike, my dad actually videod it...not sure why... and it sounded like some one was burning me alive, but do i remember it? Heck no.
My cousins were not circumcised and they have to do alot to avoid infection.
Am I glad my parents put me thru hell right when I was born.
For sure.

 

[Ceroscuro]

No kid is going to grow up and be like "I wish you hadn't circumsized me... I want my foreskin back!" Seriously. Whether they are circumsized as a kid or not, they're most likely going to feel okay about it because it's the penis they've seen every day for X years.

And as I've said before, yes the operation COULD go wrong (any operation could go wrong), but these people are trained to do this. And I'd say the chances of a mishap during surgery are lesser than the chances of having a lazy kid who doesn't necessarily wash as much as he should.

To me I don't see why you'd have to give them a choice like that. It's either give them the choice but then they have to deal with (my guess would be) excruciating pain, or you do them a favor and give them the benefits of the operation without them ever having to remember that.

 

[Mr.Mo]

what pain? :P

but yeah, it really depends on what the kid thinks about circumsision. If some asshole tells him bad stuff about it, the kid is abviously going to say no.