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“If two parents can’t come to a consensus, then in my opinion, the dad should make the decision”

How about letting the freaking child decide? It’s *his* body!

Why is it still legal to cut off part of a baby’s genitals? It’s illegal to cut off a girl’s prepuce, or even to make an incision on her genitals, so why don’t boys get the same protection?

It’s worth remembering that we wouldn’t even be having this discussion if it weren’t for the fact that 19th century doctors thought that :
a) masturbation caused various physical and mental problems (including epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, tuberculosis etc), and
b) circumcision stopped masturbation.

Both of those sound ridiculous today I know, but if you don’t believe me, then check out the link.

Over a hundred years later, circumcised men keep looking for new ways to defend the practice.

This looks like a great new site and definitely something parents are looking for. My mommy friends and I are always online searching for answers to the latest “Eek is the baby supposed to do that?!” or “Will I ever sleep again?” While Momversation provides a comfy place to chat with other parents, Parents Ask is giving answers from “experts,” which could give more comfort to new parents.

As a new mom to a baby boy, I am very familiar with the circumcision topic as it was a big debate in my house. After doing a lot of research on the topic, a little soul searching, and speaking to other mothers, I was able to make the decision I believe was right for my son. Yes, my husband did have a lot of influence in the discussion, but when it came down to it, you don’t want to cross a woman laying in a hospital bed on lots of meds. :) I had my son’s best interest at heart and I hope that he understands the decision I made.

Let’s see. We have three doctors here, one very pro-circumcision (Dr. Natterson) and two more neutral sounding doctors. All three make money from cutting off healthy foreskins from babies, so you’re expecting them to discourage circumcision? Dr. Sears protected his sons from circumcision, but he’s willing to cut your children if you pay him. Dr. Cohen comes from a religious background that practices circumcision. It’s all money in their pockets, and they’re forgetting the medical dictum to “First, Do No Harm.”

Natterson brings out all the old medical myths and social reasons for circumcision, and then has the audacity to suggest that a circumcised father who knows nothing about the function of the foreskin should have more say about circumcision than the mother who at least is genitally intact. No, Circumcision or No circumcision should be the baby’s choice to make when he becomes an adult, and most intact males don’t choose to be circumcised. Most intact females likewise don’t choose to be circumcised.

If you believe so strongly in circumcision, Dr. Natterson, go to Africa and have yourself circumcised! Then you can claim it is cleaner, etc. Actually, since you shouldn’t retract the foreskin of intact males to clean under it, and only the male should do that when he’s older, circumcision for penile hygiene makes absolutely no sense. It’s harder to keep baby girls clean than it is to keep intact baby boys clean.

I’d suggest that parents in California who reside near where Natterson has her practice would be better served to look for pediatric care elsewhere. She doesn’t sound very knowledgeable about circumcision, and I suspect she knows little about care of the foreskin.

If parents want to see a good video about circumcision, they should visit http://www.nocirc.org/ In addition, an excellent page that contains a wealth of information about the anatomy and functions of the foreskin, as well as information about circumcision can be found at:
http://www.icgi.org/birth_care_providers.htm

Whether it’s little boys or little girls, I think that circumcision is wrong.

I was circumcised at birth. As I grew older and began experiencing a less sensitive penis, I began to wish my parents had left the decision to me. I have since started restoring my foreskin and I am amazed at what I am regaining. Too bad I lost it in the first place. :(

One thing parents need to be aware of is that the Internet is educating lots of young men. Young men are finding out that they were circumcised in the face of little evidence to justify it. These young men want their foreskin back. See http://www.foreskin-restoration.net/forum and http://www.RestoringForeskin.org to read stories of young men who are angry with their parents for having them circumcised and are doing something about it.

Circumcision of a newborn is unecessary and is a violation of the boy’s civil rights. The USA is the only westernized county that circumcises a majority of newborn boys for non-religious reasons. The biggest problems are that Americans are like sheep and most feel that they should go with the majority and we don’t understand the tremendous advantages there are to having a foreskin. Furthermore, we need to take a page from our European neighbors who have less than 5% of males circumcised and also have low rates of HIV and other STD’s. The foreskin is there for very good reasons. If a boy decides to have his foreskin removed at an age that he can give true informed consent, then it will be his decision…as it should be. Wake up America! Leave our newborns intact.

MD Tanya are you serious????? THE DAD?? if the dad doesn’t have a foreskin why he should decide??? why not leave it up to the CHILD when he is old enough? Besides, he is the one who should decide if he wants to practice good hygiene and safe sex. What a crock you guys, you make money out of this and you are doing HARM to the patient. The BABY is your patient NOT THE PARENTS!

They never explain that it is erogenous tissue cut off. Forget the concept of sensation, the real concept to consider is pleasure of the boy and the man he will become. The foreskin is not just skin and does not just protect the glans(head). Circumcision is now known to ablate the most sensitive parts of the male genitals. This surgery takes away the main male pleasure zones with about 20000 fine touch and stretch nerve endings amputated. The foreskin has several parts including the ridged band that is great for ones pleasure (that is why nutters like Kellogg wanted to chop em off, to curtail masturbation), Masturbation is imporantnt for mens physical and mental health. The ridged band directly contacts the vagina for very great pleasure all around. The dynamics of sex and the actual mechanism of the penis are drastically changed by circumcision. The foreskin can normally be slipped all the way, or almost all the way, back to the base of the penis, and also slipped forward beyond the glans. This wide range of motion is the mechanism by which the penis and the orgasmic triggers in the foreskin, frenulum, and glans are stimulated. The only touch organ possessing as rich erogenous innervation as the foreskin is the clitoris. Circumcision deprives man of 2/3ds of the main erogenous zone constituted of the foreskin and the glans.

The surgery takes away pleasure giving regions and that pleasure is gone for good. No doctor should be able to recommended this, taking pleasure zones away from another human being without asking is not a choice.

Rudy and I have already discussed this issue and decided on circumcision. We even decided to have it done by an actual rabbi for comedic purposes (neither of us are Jewish) :)

Idiots all. Cutting normal, healthy body parts off of other people without their written, adult, informed consent is a crime against humanity called “human vivisection”, the same crime licensed German doctors were jailed after WWII for committing during the war against Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other “defectives”. These three “doctors”, so called, are all guilty as charged and should be in jail right now for their genital mutilations of helpless infants. They WOULD be, too, if they were merely pin-pricking the tiny foreskins of girls. Why is a boy’s much larger foreskin fair amputation game for any idiot doctor with a knife in this sick, sick country? Jail these three idiots before they hurt or kill another child. Disgusting creeps.

This is sickning, I was circumcised as a baby and I 100% resent my parents and I have disowned them, sure there were other factors, but yes circumcision is definitely part of it, they had NO RIGHT to mutilate MY BODY, its MY CHOICE. It should be illegal for boys, just like it is girls, for anyone under the age of 18.

And all this BS about it being healthier, is bullshit, plain and simple, Americans looking for ways to justify it, 80% of the world is in.tact and does not have problems.

For the record, I am restoring my foreskin and no son of mine will be mutilate at birth.

As was mentioned, we have federal law that prohibits the modification (of any kind) of the female genitalia. Yet, we can do what we want with little boys. Also, cleanliness has been mentioned. Taking care of little boys is easier than little girls. You just wash the outside of the penis as if it were a finger. Under no circumstances should the foreskin be drawn back over the glans until the boy does it for himself. At birth, the foreskin is fused to the glans (like the clitoris). Those adhesions break down over time. Most foreskins can be pulled back between the ages of three and five. However, full retraction may take until puberty. Forced retraction by parents and doctors is the number one reason that circumcision may become necessary for pre-teens. With a little education (very little really), the care of the foreskin is easy and the boy should not experience any difficulties.

I would say to any mother considering circumcision for their son: please research the subject and do whatever you need to to protect your son.

I am a man in my 40s and deeply, deeply resent being circumcised. More and more men are becoming extremely distressed upon learning that an important body part was removed before they had a chance to have a say in the matter.

The most sensitive parts of the penis are in the foreskin and are forever lost to circumcision. This fact is not even in dispute.

With the rate of circumcision in the US in freefall (was over 90%, currently around 50% and dropping), you son will be in the minority as he grows up. The US is catching up to the rest of the world wich does not circumcise (outside of misguided religious beliefs).

Your son may very well come to resent you for permitting a very important, normal and healthy part of his penis to be amputated.

Please spare your son from this painful and entirely unnecessary ritual. You should be aware that some individual doctors promote the practice, they do not speak for the medical community. The medical community speak with one voice on circumcision: not a single medical organisation on Earth recommends circumcision. Several (Canada, United Kingdom, Australia..) come out very strongly against the practice. Children are not born needing surgery.

I understand many men are happy in their circumcised state and seek to defend the practice – and their masculinity and sexuality at the same time. Unfortunately, the reality is that a penis which is missing its moving parts and most sensitive parts can only ever experience second-rate sex. Enjoyable no doubt, but always second rate – much like a man born with one working eye thouroughly enjoys ’seeing’.

Be aware some Rabbis still practice what’s known as a metzitzah b’peh circumcision, which involves the oral sucking of blood from the raw circumcision wound on the baby’s bloodied penis. True! Look it up.

Why would you hand your perfect baby to a stranger with a knife, which he is going to use to cut into your son’s penis…?

Everything about circumcision is dark and creepy and surrounded by myths of benefit.

Please, please follow your maternal instincts and stand up for your son and his basic human rights and genital integrity. It is your fundamental responsibility as a mother.

@Casey McKinnon: “We even decided to have it done by an actual rabbi for comedic purposes (neither of us are Jewish) :)”
You mean, as in “Seinfeld” (http://www.circumstitions.com/.....seinfeld)? I hope your designated Kramer is more successful at protecting the baby.

Assuming you meant “cosmetic”, what makes you assume this is a change from the natural appearance of his penis that he will want when he grows up? If not, by what right do you do it, since you will have him for less than 20 years of his lifespan? Do you plan any cosmetic surgery if it’s a girl?

MarcHustvedt:”So I guess circumcision is like the Mac/PC debate but for parents??” No, because at the end of that debate, one way or the other, you have a whole computer. It’s more like a debate you’d have about whether to cut the mouse of your kid’s computer, because dust and stuff gets in the mouse, and he can do everything he needs to do using just the keyboard.

And if you can’t agree and dad has grown up never using a mouse, I think he should decide.

This is not a rational topic. If it were, circumcision would have become obsolete decades ago, as it is in the rest of the English-speaking world, or never have become customary, as it never did in Scandinavia, Europe, South America or most of Asia.

It’s a hot topic because you’re telling people a deeply entrenched custom they’ve never questioned is wrong. It’s like saying they should stop eating bread or drinking coffee. You’re telling parents-in-law they were wrong to do it to their son, and men there is something lacking from their penis, and true or false, they don’t like that.

It’s only become a public hot topic recently because of the Internet. Now all the men who have secretly hated being circumcised can at last come out and say so, along with all the men who were bullied for being intact. People can now share all the stories of circumcisions gone wrong, of being browbeaten to circumcise, or just of how much they hated watching it.

Jesus Christ, What other natural healthy body part do we needlessly cut off children? None…
This one happens to be an erogenous zone as well.
Only a sicko would consider cutting off something such as a foreskin without immediate medical/therapeutic need that otherwise cannot be cured “good”

Why do Americans have such a genital mutilation fetish? Do you honestly believe your genitals are cleaner than mine? I’ve never had an infection, i love my foreskin and would never have it severed from me. Any logical/ethical person would come to the conclusion that if it’s possible that ONE person would love his foreskin it’s possible that ANYONE could, including your own son.

This isn’t a defective organ, it causes no problems unless you prematurely retract it (which so many stupid/uneducated pediatricians/doctors try to do)

Your Medical Textbooks DONT EVEN HAVE FORESKINS! How the hell is it a surgically altered organ is the standard depiction in your medical texts? It’s as if your medical professionals are intentionally kept in the dark.

What drives a parent to have their son’s first experience of his genitals be of circumcision? Pure ignorance and unwitting bias. Leave the kid’s genitals alone.

Marc Hustvedt: “Is there a legislative debate at all or do politicos try to stay out of this.”

Unfortunately, there is no powerful lobbying group fighting for genital integrity of all children, including boys. This issue has not gained the attention of the politicos. There are some groups that are growing and developing a following. And, thanks to the Internet, many men and women are learning about the circumcision instead of blindly altering the genitals of their baby boys.

See MGM Bill – Stopping Male Genital Mutilation through legislation at http://www.mgmbill.org/

Intact America at http://intactamerica.org/ is lobbying to stop routine infant circumcision.

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