Circumcision - yes or no?

[Hatman 🍁]

I support genital integrity. I couldn't imagine what life would be like without a foreskin. Would it even be worth living?

[Hatman 🍁]

This poll should be opened up to see how the people with foreskins voted vs. those without. Those who have foreskins probably couldn't imagine how horrible it would be without one.

[Hatman 🍁]

I'll pose the questionI did in the other thread.... do you all support parents waiting to name their kids until the kid is old enough to choose?

A kid can always change his name, he can never get his foreskin back.

[Hatman 🍁]

I'll pose the questionI did in the other thread.... do you all support parents waiting to name their kids until the kid is old enough to choose?

What does this have to do with the permanent removal of a part of your body?

It seems some folks have issues with parents making decisions for their children which I find objectionable...I'm not going to get angry about this issue as I know no Democrat would be silly enough to propose a ban on circumcision here. I am not personally circumcised but knowing the health benefits and had it performed on my son as a newborn.... Your desire to regulate not only the religious but the medical power of parents to raise their children as they see fit is stunning

Im sorry if you think parents should be able to mutilate their children. Im not against parents making choices for their children, but I draw the line at genital mutilation. And those supposed "health benefits" have been debunked. I guess you missed that memo.

[Hatman 🍁]

I support genital integrity. I couldn't imagine what life would be like without a foreskin. Would it even be worth living?

OH man, it is so horrible!  Everyday I wake up wishing I were dead and how much better my life would be if my parents hadn't cut a flap of skin on my dick!

You wouldn't be able to know, so why would I expect you to be upset?

[Hatman 🍁]

I support genital integrity. I couldn't imagine what life would be like without a foreskin. Would it even be worth living?

OH man, it is so horrible!  Everyday I wake up wishing I were dead and how much better my life would be if my parents hadn't cut a flap of skin on my dick!

You wouldn't be able to know, so why would I expect you to be upset?

Well, why would you make such a f***ing stupid statement anyway?

And frankly, "Would it even be worth living?" deserved a full on sarcastic response.  Yes, there are those of us without foreskins and yes we live productive successful lives.  The fact that people like you treat us like we're little more than mutilated freaks speaks a lot about you as a person.

Would I circumcise my kid?  Probably not, given the whole "he can't consent" argument.  However, are people like you incredibly ignorant?  Yes.

What I said was hyperbolic. I figured that was obvious. But yeah, I do honestly think it would suck to not have a foreskin. Obviously not the end of the world, though. And I never said y'all were freaks (or treated you as such), so don't put words in my mouth.

It's hilarious how ~important~ people are making out having foreskin to be.

This forum is full of Manly Men who care greatly about their cocks.

Yup. But, to be honest, the politics of sex interest me greatly.

[Hatman 🍁]

For some reason I can never remember whether it actually made it into the final version of Sons and Lovers or whether I've only come across it in a published draft version, but Gertrude Morel seemed to regard the cutting of one of her son's hair (for the first time) by her husband as some sort of mutilation, or at least as a violation. And the author at least half endorses this. Of course Lawrence was a bit a weirdo, but it seems vaguely relevant.

Hair grows back, though.

While my views on this subject are well known by this point, I just want to say I am not ignoring the fact that banning circumcision outright will not play well for certain religions. I do know it is a barbaric practice, but I also know that banning it comes with a whole slew of problems with angry religious folk.

[Hatman 🍁]

I do find the suggestions of the uncircumcised that my penis is somehow horribly disfigured at least a little bit offensive.

No one said that.

[Hatman 🍁]

I think the anti-circumcision people really do their side some negative things when they say "mutilation", I don't find it offensive or anything but it is kind of excessive hyperbole, and it's exactly why circumcised males usually do take them seriously. The thought process beings "Oh man I'm not mutilated, these people are nuts who don't have a clue what they're talking about." Even worse and what actually IS offensive is the comparison to the actual mutilation of girls that happens in some places in Africa and the Middle East (not that I've seen that here, but I have in other places, implying the two are even remotely comparable is quite disgusting.)

It's better to just focus on the consent issue than scream "OMG BABIES ARE BEING MUTILATED!"

It's still mutilation, but I will admit it's not as bad as what is done to those girls. Female circumcision ruins sex for them, while male circumcision just makes it less pleasurable.

[Hatman 🍁]

I would rather undergo circumcision later in life due to medical reasons, even knowing how painful it must be than for me to have been circumcised as an infant.