Circumcision: back on the table

[Fridays Child]

If you could go back in time and could roam the African savanna a million years ago, you'd soon spot the hominids – the ancestors of modern-day humans. They'd be the ones standing up.

You'd also notice that just like the other animals, the pre-humans were stark naked. Not only that, none of the males were circumcised.

In those days, a foreskin was important to a man and conferred an evolutionary advantage. It protected the tip of his penis – the exposed glans penis – from dust, sand, insects, and infections.

But it wasn't long before humans invented clothing, which gave comfort, safety and protection from the elements. The genitals were hidden away in stone-age versions of budgie smugglers.

So much for the foreskin – it wasn't needed. Worse than that, it was actually a liability. Trapped inside clothes, themselves often dirty and sweaty, it became unhygienic. The fashion – especially in people living in hot places like Australia, the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Indonesia, and the Americas – was to remove it.

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[xchrom]

1. i just like 'em. cut or uncut. it's all good.

so to speak.

[Warpy]

2. Good attitude

Another thing to keep in mind is that little boys want to look like Daddy.

If you're going to do it, it's best to have it done in infancy when topical anesthetics will do the job and recovery is the quickest.

It's a personal choice people make for their children. Everybody else needs to butt out once the risks are explained.

[Orrex]

3. I'm so confused!

I thought that circumcision was only done by barbarians who want to mutilate their male children and brutally traumatize them forever and ever and ever.

Now I just don't know what to think...

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I'm glad my parents did the "snip" thing to me.

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I have a hard enough time remembering to wash behind my ears!

[hermetic]

5. CC

:rofl:

[intaglio]

6. This is just the tip

of the iceberg

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. A suitable place.... it would be much harder performing one on

one's hands and knees. Seems to me.