Male circumcision is a good thing

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A penis with a foreskin is not malformed.

do you have some modern sources and their peer reviews?

what is the statistical context?

lets get some numbers on the line here so we can see excactly what you are getting for sacrificing the choice of your children in the context of their own body,
thing is most people that have it done might be perfectly happy about it, but there are people that arent, it can be a serious life long trauma for some of these people.
so in essence by allowing parents to make such a choice without any consideration for the child means that there will be people suffering some very real trauma to satisfy what is largely an aesthetic and cultural choice, if you are talking about the benefits then surely they would be equally great if done later in life, where choice can be had and trauma prevented or are you going to argue that cancer is a real risk below 16 ?

Is smegma around your urethra is the height of your worries you lead a very idyllic existance, thats all i can say.

You're doing several flawed analogies there. A foreskin is not like hair or fingernails, because the last two grow back. The procedure isn't fail-safe; it has the potential to go wrong, and when it does...

Also, hare lips, and especially heart defects, are more, way more, life threatening than some foreskin; and the social stigma associated with the first one should not be overlooked. To be fair, I've heard there are women in the US who don't like circumcised penis, and that *could* be a valid reason for an adult man who cares about such matters, but then again, that's something a baby shouldn't worry about.

You mention smegma, cancer, and STD's as your reasons for circumcision. The first one is solved with basic hygiene, and for the later, proper use of condoms is much more effective at STD prevention than circumcision. On HIV: circumcision's effectiveness is of about 61%; it would be roughly like letting my fate be decided by the flip of a coin. It's virtually impossible for a condom to allow HIV transmission as long as it is properly used. I could not find the source on the cancer claim.

Anyway, sex and cancer are not part of children's worries. Let them grow up and then decide what do they want to do with their bodies.

I can also make a similarly flawed analogy. What if we cut all women's breasts off? Breast cancer would cease to exist, and maybe men would be less driven to have sex with them, which would lower the chances of catching an STD. Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? (to be fair, masectomy is sometimes done preventively in women whose genotipe make them very likely to develop breast cancer. That's not the case with most women though, and those who go under that procedure do it under their own free will)

These are adult health concerns, to be left to adults who can make their choice. As others have noted, good personal hygiene and condoms are a much less extreme version, but if mutiliating your own penis is your preferred option, go for it. It is your choice.

I am happy with my choice. It was - and will remain - my choice to make. Had my parents made it for me, I might be happy with it. I might feel bad, but also that they're my parents, and so wouldn't do anything to hurt me, and start to feel conflicted. I might hate it, and come to resent them for it.

You seem ok with your own circumcision - many aren't. They wish they had had the choice to make, and not had it forced upon them. It is unnecessary surgery, and it violates a person's right to bodily integrity and choice.

I'll take the joys and benefits of a more sensitive penis over the 'chore' of hygiene, condoms I'd use anyway, and a slight increased risk of a rare cancer.

I'll just call it like I see it; ruveyn is a troll. He misses the point so blatantly that it has to be deliberate. Do the same thing to him and he'll call YOU on it. He just looks for any sort of excuse to condescendingly lecture people.

AceOfSpades, that's out of order. It's a personal attack to accuse someone of trolling.
If you have any genuine concerns beyond being annoyed by posting styles or other opinions you should report them to a moderator.

Never mind then. I could build a little case for it but I don't think I'll even bother since it's a grey area sort of thing.