Men - What is your opinion on male circumcision?

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Married Women - if you know how your husband would answer, please feel free to vote too!

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Other:

I was circumcised and I had baby girls - the question never came up.

i don't go around comparing equipment with other guys, and I've always been like this - I just don't know what I don't know.

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5. Well, I wasn't really interested in Other

but thanks for responding anyway. Who's comparing equipment? This is a health question.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. As post #2 said, below.

As for 'comparing equipment' I meant I have never asked any other guy if he's had any issues with being/not being cut, so I only know what I know, and I've had no issues with it.

If my babies had been boys I might have discussed it with my wife. They weren't, so I didn't.

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10. I understand, but I wasn't asking that - I was asking for YOUR opinion

If you had sons or are planning on having a child which may be a son. If the answer is no, then you wouldn't need to vote in the poll.

[unpossibles]

2. I am circumcised and I am not sure which way I'd go

Assuming I ever have a male child.

Honestly, it doesn't bother me that I am circumcised in the least. I understand the arguments for and against, and am not sure it's a big deal either way.

[subterranean]

3. Other...

I'm circumcised and I had my boy circumcised too, but if I had known then what I know now, my decision would have been different. Why do you ask?

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4. Because I'm curious about how others think about this.

[sdfernando]

6. Would you care to elaborate on this?

"but if I had known then what I know now"

I'm curious as to what changed your mind.

[subterranean]

14. Learning the facts changed my mind

The fact that...

- there is no legitimate medical or hygienic reason for circumcising infants (no medical association in the world recommends it)

- it reduces sensitivity

- it causes unnecessary pain and stress for the baby

- caring for the wound is an extra burden for the parents

- there is a significant risk of complications

- most of the world outside the U.S. does not circumcise boys for non-religious reasons


Unfortunately, many doctors and parents in the U.S. have been impervious to these facts. It's another example of Americans' resistance to change.

[damntexdem]

7. It's not something to be snippy about.

;-)

I'm circumcised and we did have our baby boy circumcised lo these many years ago.

Hygiene.

[seabeckind]

8. No category for me...

Un, did the sons... big mistake.

Leftover religious bullsh!t from when men didn't wash. Well, duh! If you don't clean the equipment, pretty soon it quits working.

As usual, US is still stuck in the dark ages -- get our medical advice from a 2000 year old book.

[bemildred]

11. I think such questions should be left for the child to deal with when they grow up.

Any adult male that wants to become circumsized can do so. No need for parents to take the choice away from them at birth.

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13. My feelings exactly!

[Eg-ptiangirl]

15. exactly

[Chemisse]

16. My nephew had to be circumcized when he was about 10 or 12

For some medical reason. It was potentially pretty traumatic, but I don't know how he fared emotionally.

[HuckleB]

17. That's the stand we have taken with our boy.

[bemildred]

18. I'm glad we can agree.

I'm circumsized, so is one of my sons, the other two are not. I don't really think it is a big deal except to people that get emotional and worried about it. When I matured and thought about it, it was clear to me I would rather have been able to make up my own mind about it, and there was nothing much at stake until you became sexually active, so I didn't allow it to be done after that.

[Crunchy Frog]

19. Not that I've been asked, being female and all, but

that's the tack that I've taken with the froglets. They can get whatever body modification they choose when they're old enough to consent to it on their own behalf. In the meantime they get to keep whatever parts they were born with.

[Orrex]

20. Yeah--just like vaccination!

Let the newborn decide when he's fifteen or sixteen, because parents have no business making decisions on their child's behalf.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Or like ear piercing, which I would have left for a daughter to choose for herself

when she was older, if I had had one. Or like getting them tattooed. :shrug:

I had them vaccinated for serious illnesses that they were at real risk of getting during infancy, that could have put them in the hospital or worse. I delayed the Hep B vaccine indefinitely because my babies aren't out having sex or sharing needles.

[nickinSTL]

12. don't have any kids, and don't expect to

my dad had VERY strong feelings about it after seeing a guy in the army in the 60s have to be circumcised due to problems of some sort - said it was pretty horrible.

However, I don't necessarily buy all of the pro-circumcision hype and think that I wouldn't have it done. Inflicting pain, however minor and transitory, for what seems primarily a religious tradition that has outlived its usefulness seems like something I don't want to perpetuate.

I expect my wife would have to be consulted, though :evilgrin: