What are your thoughts on circumsision?!


Question: What are your thoughts on circumsision!?
My girlfriend and I are talking about future children, and when we came around to the idea of a son, she says that he will not be circumsised, but I refuse for him not to be!. She claims it is a genital mutilation, but I want it done for healthy and social reasons!. I think this argument may be causing a separation in our relationship!. When the time comes, what should be done!? Circumsised or uncircumsised!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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we also had a debate over this!. I didn't want it done because i didn't want to hurt my little baby unnecessarily!. it just seemed cruel for no reason!. in the end my doc told me that it is healthier for them to be, an that they will seem left out if the majority of their peers have it done while he doesn't!. my husband wins!. I am glad we did it now because my brother was 16 when he decided to get his done and he said it was much more pain involved with a longer recovery time!. anyway!.!. my point is!.!.!. if dads is done then let him decide because he knows better than the women on how this makes him feel!. also they do use numbing cream and pain meds now a days!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I'm with your girlfriend (not literally of course, what I mean is I agree with her!)

You want it done for health reasons!?

!.!.!. The AAP does not recommend it because "the procedure is not essential to the child's current well-being"!.
!.!.!. 80% of the global male population are uncircumsized, and most get along just fine!.
!.!.!. I've never had any hygiene problems with my foreskin!. I don't know anyone who has!.

You want it done for social reasons!?

!.!.!. I really don't understand this one!. What social reasons!?
!.!.!. Only half of American newborns are circumsized nowadays so he won't be in a laughable minority when he's growing up!.

You think this argument may cause a separation in your relationship!?
!.!.!. You aren't even having kids yet (let alone a boy) so why would this discussion cause a separation!. You've utterly confused me with your question!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I'm the girlfriend he's talking about!.

See, he says it's more hygienic, but it's not really!. That's a tradition started up thousands of years ago when men were ashamed of their bodies and good hygiene was hard to come by!. These days, that's not true!. About 85% of the world's male population is not circumcised!. It has no benefits, there's no good reason that I see to slice off a part of a baby's body!. That's cruel and unusual!.

The best argument he has is that he believes we're supposed to be like Christ!. But Jesus was a Jew and lived by the law of the Old Testament!. Because HE died on the cross, we no longer have to pay in blood for our sins!.

Uncircumcised equipment looks more whole, and also has a lot more feeling during intercourse (I've heard)!. If you ask me, GOD made men that way, that's how he wants them to say!. What right have we to defile the human body!?Www@Answer-Health@Com

Well it's painful for a child!. My husband and I are having this debate!.!.!.I'm on your side, and he's on your wife's side!. But I think in the end we're going to do uncircumcised, and later if the son wants it circumcised he can get it done!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Approve, for health reasons; transmission of STD's is noticeably less likely!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

i think that you mention the main reasons for a kid to be circumcisedWww@Answer-Health@Com





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