Male infant circumcision is safe and benificial

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Please have a look at this article:

http://www.annfammed.org/content/8/1/64.full

ruveyn

Then Google "childhood penis injury circumcision lawsuit" for everything, but don't select "images".

Everyone: amputate your little finger. Nowadays it is possible to perform such surgery without risk, and it will reduce your hand infection rates by 20%.

There is no reason it cannot be done as an adult when you're old enough to consent for yourself. If it is so safe and beneficial people would still do it.

I was snipped when I was a baby, and I've got no complaints. In fact, I would imagine I'd be even more of a freak in junior high school than I already was if I had been the only guy in the shower room with a turtle neck. I had more than enough that had already set me apart from anyone else, so I certainly didn't need that horseshit.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Shower rooms and the destruction of teenage privacy are a whole different topic and is not well-relevant - If you lived in a country with majority uncircumcised you would have preferred not to be circumcised under that logic.

Yes, but I do live in a country where the majority of males are circumcised, and thus I consider it to be very relevant. Particularly, as I had already stated, not being snipped would have only left me with even more psychological scars at the hands of assorted jocks, bullies, and other butt holes.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

We are discussing a thread about whether it is safe and recommendable for health reasons.

I'd say that circumcision being pushed on people through bullying and stuff is relevant to the whole circumcision discussion but that goes to the other thread.

i would note that it appears all of the proponents of circumcision are themselves circumcised.

You poor thing.

ruveyn

Well... I was probably exaggerating any psychological scars. But they were still butt holes!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

having to get a circ as an adult sucks.

But at least there's an element of choice. A man circumcised at birth can't really do much about it. Restoration programs never get things back the way they should be. While the glans may regain sensitivity over time, the clusters of nerve endings in the foreskin don't regrow properly and as I understand it the mechanical action of the restored foreskin during sex is rarely what it should be, the regrown skin is too loose, or arranged in an improper fashion.

Then why doesn't it suck as an infant?

The medical literature is pretty consistent in demonstrating that it is neonatal circumcision that confers the health benefit. There are far fewer observable benefits in cases of adult circumcision, other than resolution of the condition that indicated circumcision in the first place.

But, that being said, even though their are measurable benefits to neonatal circumcision, I don't believe that they are significant enough to stand alone as a justification for neonatal circumcision. However, where there is a cultural motivation for circumcision, then I see no medical reason not to permit it.