if for hygiene reasons, then shouldn't circumcision be done on girls and pets, as well as boys?
403190
Well dude the circumcision practise started in the US due to religious and moral beliefs of people in the 40s and beyond. They said that one of the main benefits of circumcision was that it prevented or to reduce the chance of masturbation in boys (because its a sin). Circumcision has increased in the US to where doctors automatically circumcise babies with out parental consent...and most doctors just do it because it was done to them and its a common thing to do to newborns. Its a practise that should not be continued due to the damage and pain it causes to the baby. Plus intact penises are more sensitive to stimulation, and not everyone gets the "cheese" i've seen a few girls ive been with, that had more "cheese" than I have ever had in my life!
675095
nope... i don't think so. it's for sanitary purposes. Unless you're doing something else there aside from urinating or checking the mirror or washing your hands...
990060
No difference really.  But a circumsised penis is easier to keep clean and prevent any bad odours, which could be a turn on in some cases
939790
In Islam circumcision is not mandatory.\n\nBut because Islam says that one must not have even a drop of urine on a person (outside the organs of course) when praying five times a day, then it would be hard for those uncircumcised people as they need to clean their "thing" every prayer time.\n\nSo it is not mandatory, but highly highly highly highly highly recommended.
1029635
Circumcision is mutilation.  We abhor it being done to girls in Africa, but we practice ritual mutilation on our men every day.  What the hell?
445591
None.  Penile cancer is almost non-existent.  It is a shame for anyone to do that to their little baby boys.  There is no good reason for it in my eyes.\n\nOur buttholes harbor bacteria as well as our mouths.  Circumcision takes away sensitivity.  Some idiot thought that enjoying sex was evil and voila!  Circumcision.  It actually can take away from size too.\n\nNepesh is right.  Totally!  My Love bug's weenie is always cleanie.  It is beautiful and there is no need to hurt somebody like that.  Let's cut off your clitoris to make you cleaner?  No.  Take a bath/shower everyday and believe me, a good woman will have no problem making love to it.\n\nAll of you that claim that it is dirty or causes my cervical cancerd and what have you are just uneducated.
180930
Yes, of course! In Britain, Muslim and Jewish men are circumcised but most men who are neither Muslim nor Jewish are not. There are lots of children born to uncircumcised fathers.
131108
Being circumcised means removeal of the forskin. It is usually done at birth. In the Bible it was a form of Covenant between God and His children. It most likely has it's good reasons as well as bad ones. Easier to keep clean, but maybe less sensitive because the forskin is a protective covering. With the forskin you must be sure not to leave any soap or you may be one unhappy camper if you scratch the blood out of yourself in your sleep. I think in this day and time it is a matter of preference. If you are 19 and have had no problem, my advice would be, If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Since I am a female this may be considered wrong advice but I am a Mom and I am answering you just as if you were my own son asking me. Did your Mom not talk to you about this when you asked questions or your Dad? Maybe they were embarrased, but they should have told you or at least let your family doctor explain about it. By the way I have a son, he is circumcised just like his dad was.Oh yes, Christ was circumcised just as all Jewish males were. And I have heard(though I can't speak from first hand knowledge) it is painful for a baby boy and more so for an adult. Best to ask a doctor on that. It seems I read somewhere that keeping the foreskin makes a man more likely to get cancer, but I might be wrong on that point...again talk to a doctor. I hope you and others will find my advice sound and full of good judgement.
826781
Penis cutting 1:01 All men should be circumsized because it looks so gross when its not cut. \n\nhehe
929801
There are a lot of things that everyone does in private that are not acceptable in public, this being one.Most forms of personal grooming should be kept private.
744980
Well, I suppose you could say the same thing about circumcision for the males too. There is really no medical justification for it. Just religious/societal beliefs.\n\nI do NOT support this, but know that spiritual beliefs often cause people to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do or do things that are very destructive without realize or admitting it.\n\nThey circumcize females to prevent arousal. To say that females should find joy in fulfilling their womanly duties and giving birth, not through fleshly, sinful sexual stimulation. Just another patriarchal way of keeping women "in line".
808371
Yes, they should be punished. Mutilating the body of a child/woman is a crime. And it is also very dangerous for the circumcised woman's/girl's health.
759407
There has been -- needless to say -- an enormous amount of scholarly research done on this, both medical and sociologicfal.\n\nMedically, infant circumcision is again being indicated as a means of reducing HIV/AIDS incidence in later life. It is said to have no negative consequenceds.\n\nSociologically, it is predominant among Jews and Muslims worldwide, and among the general population in the USA (at various years, 60-80%) and the Philippines (over 90% I am told).\n\nSocially, it seems that circumcision is preferred by women, and that mothers make the decision most of the time. \n\nAs for "freedom of rights": that is not a concept known to law. Perhaps you mean "freedom of choice": but infants have no such choice even over matters that will affect them lifelong: language, religion, education, inheritance. It is not a human right, although certain scholars -- loudly among them Sami Aldeeb, a Christian Palestinian (he would prefer "Canaanite") in Switzerland -- would argue the contrary.\n\nSo-called "female circumcision" is mutilatioin, amputation, and not circumcision and is illegal in the United States and in Europe. Some activists like Aldeeb conflate the male and female procedures to bolster their own arguments, but the law is otherwise.\n\nYour answser, if you have a political view, is to petition your legislature. Others have tried and failed. The argument simply isn't there; the HIV/AIDS (and cervical cancer, among others) issues counterbalance any quasi-Christian ("new Covenant") or other arguments put forward.
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If he wants to be cut he can have it done on his own.  He owns the penis it is his decision. It has been his penis all his life, parents should respect their sons bodies just like they do their daughters.\n\npopibz you twit, if uncircumcised penises are "very difficult to clean" then girls are impossible to clean. The rest of your re-posted answer is all the same kind of half baked crap. The best circumcising could do for STDs or HIV AIDs is to only reduce the chance of contact, if even that. You still need condoms and safe sex to stop disease, so why cut? \n\nDo you realize you are exposing boys needlessly to antibiotic resistant staph infections (MRSA). http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/DOC/mrsa.html \n\nA boy is more likely to die from circumcision complications than to contract cancer of the penis.\n\nJust take the whole baby home and teach him to use soap and water.
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My husband is circ'd but we decided to leave our son uncut...\n\nThe health reasons are bogus:  should we cut off our daughter's labia because she might get yeast infections, and it's be "cleaner"?  No way!  That's barbaric genital mutilation!  But it's ok for sons?!?\n\nAlso, roughly 40% of boys born these days are left uncut... so the "locker room" argument is also B.S.\n\nWhy hurt a baby?!?
588731
What's the point of female circumcision? It just mutilates a woman. It can cause her to have urinary, sexual, and labor (when having a baby) problems. Why do it? Its a sign of hatred and violence against women. There are many charities that are working tirelessly to end this cruel and barbaric procedure. And exactly how does this sick procedure prepare women for marriage? By preparing them for years of torture to come at the hands of their husbands?  I think its a sick procedure and thank God it isn't practiced anywhere where people have half a brain.
141951
Americans are under the idea that circumcised is cleaner. Maybe american men don't wash?   This is due to lies from the american medical association over decades.  The smae people who used to give women lobotomys if they enjoyed sex (and yes..FAR worse practises also) well into the 20th century.  If you wash often there should be no problems.\n\nThe simple fact is there is no out break or epedemic of cancerous male genetalia in areas of thew world where men are predominantly uncut.\n\nUncut and cut ..apparently the 2 do taste different. But I wouldnt know.  For some women it sure feels better..some women notice no difference either way.  For men...the foreskin does an incredible amount during sex as regards sensation.\n\nPicture it this way...would you remove your eyelids in the vain idea that it would make your eye ball cleaner?  This is prretty much what circumcision is doing.