Circumcision are/aren't prefer/don't

[yurbud]

Poll question: Circumcision are/aren't prefer/don't

[6000eliot]

1. Am and wish I wasn't

[yurbud]

2. sounds like a good story

[6000eliot]

48. No story really

I just wish my parents hadn't had me mutilated without my permission.

[Greyhound]

36. I've often been curious what it would've been like if I was intact, but

no biggie. Everything seems to work fine and most amerikan women like us cut.

[tjwmason]

3. Am not.

It's very rare over here - except for religious reasons.

[swimboy]

7. That's the way it ought to be.

Infant circumcision is still quite routine over here and a travesty, I think, to foreclose on a man's opportunity to decide the issue for himself.

[tjwmason]

9. I can understand the religious reasons

But have never understood why it became routine in the U.S. :shrug:

From the other 'perspective' I fear I don't know enough to comment.

[swimboy]

10. I'm really at a loss as to how it occurred to anybody in the first place!

:scared:

[tjwmason]

13. As I say - always seemed odd to me.

Check your inbox.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

19. i could only wonder whats in that PM

:evilgrin:

[swimboy]

22. Welcome to the Circumcision Thread, MadAsHellNewYorker!

:hi:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

24. lol, thanks swimboy

:hi:

I am thoroughly amused by this thread :evilgrin:

[tjwmason]

40. You have a shocking imagination sometimes.

:evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

12. If I ever have a kid (boy), I don't plan on circumcision.

If he want's to get one later, then it's his decision. Seems brutal to me anyhow.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

11. I am, but yeah that's rare for a Brit

It was for health reasons when I was about 10 and it hurt like fuck. Still, proud to be a Roundhead :).

[yurbud]

34. great historical reference

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

49. what?

I never heard fuck... hurting

[ForrestGump]

4. Don't remember

[Omphaloskepsis]

5. I could use the girth..

[KG]

6. i am. and happy to be.

sleek and clean. and the women in my life have prefered it that way. :)

[cfield]

8. My husband is not

and I prefer it that way, as does he.

We will not have our son circumsized.

[ragin_acadian]

14. pole poll!

[4morewars]

23. LMAO !

good one :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

15. I am 100% in favor of genital integrity

Non-medical circumcision of minors ought to be illegal.

[rbnyc]

39. I agree. (nt)

[Strong Atheist]

16. Now why wasn't this thread locked?

Mine was ....x(

(Goes off and sulks) ...

[DS1]

18. Yeah, your thread got waxed right quick

or is that whacked? I'm not caught up on my mob-speak, I'll have to go undercover

/bad puns

[Strong Atheist]

27. Whacked. As in weed whacker.

;)

[Beausoir]

46. Because this topic is a pet project of one of the moderators.

Pretty sad.

[Mizmoon]

17. I didn't want my son circumcised, but he is

Hubby adamantly insisted on it. I figure that he knows more about the subject than I, so I deferred to his judgment. At least our ob used novocaine so the baby didn't suffer.

[Inspired]

21. A shot of novcaine would hurt

like the dickens wouldn't it? (no pun intended) I know that after it kicks in it wouldn't hurt but a needle of any kind down under makes me squirm.

[LeftyMom]

25. Yes, and it's inadequate pain control anyhow

The glans and foreskin are fused in newborns and circumcision requires that they be torn apart before the foreskin can be crushed or cut away (depending on the method of circumcision used.) Novocaine would control the surface pain but does nothing for the pain caused by the separation. The best form of pain control for this procedure (it's still inadequate) is the dorsal ring block but it's not often used.

Also, pain control after the procedure is (when provided at all) inadequate for the considerable amount of pain created by a raw wound in one of the most densely enervated parts of the body being subjected to diaper friction and urine.

[Mizmoon]

28. I'm sure they use Novocaine before they do anything

painful like separate the glans. I'm not a cheerleader for circumcision by any means, but I think to imply that there is no way to do it painlessly is a little dramatic.

I certainly agree that it's pointless unless there are religious reasons involved; that's why I was leaning against it.

I imagine that you're right about the possibility for pain afterward but as I recall (this was some 16 years ago) his penis was covered in ointment and healed within days.

[Mizmoon]

31. Yes, but more than say a vaccination?

The pain of the Novocaine shot is at least very brief, like a vaccination, and saves them from pain that would be ... well ... far worse to say the least.

How did I find myself defending circumcision? I don't even like it that much :)

[Inspired]

35. A shot in the penis???

I'm female so I don't know how that would feel. I would much rather take it in the arm, the thigh or the butt. Can't imagine having a shot of anything in a private area.

[Mizmoon]

41. wait until you give birth (if you ever do)

whoo hoo! The novocaine shot was the least of what they did "down there" :)

[Inspired]

42. Oh I have!!!

Twice...natural both times. Zero pain control. I forgot about that...thanks for reminding me. However, in childbirth there is so much pressure in that area that I'm not sure it would be the same.

[Bridget Burke]

33. My father insisted my brother be circumcized.

He was not & wished he had been. A friend was circumcized as an adult & he didn't want to go through that...

[Left Is Write]

20. My son is not circumcised.

My husband is.

[rbnyc]

38. Was that an issue at all?

See my post below.

I think if my husband were, I would still not have had my son circumcised, but I wonder how much it would have complicated the issue.

[Left Is Write]

43. No, not at all!

My husband agreed with me.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. This is really quite fascinating

Not this... this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

The history and all.

Mind you, I'm not taking sides. But I'm cut and I think I prefer it that way. Of course, how is one to know? :shrug:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

50. OUCH

Circumcision in the Greco-Roman World...

"Techniques for restoring the appeareance of a foreskin were known by the 2nd century B.C. In one such technique, a copper weight (called the Judeum pondum) was hung from the remnants of the circumcised foreskin until, in time, they became sufficiently stretched to cover the glans. The first-century writer Celsus described two surgical techniques for foreskin restoration in his medical treatise De Medicina. <27> In one of these, the skin of the penile shaft was loosened by cutting in around the base of the glans. The skin was then stretched over the glans and allowed to heal, giving the appearance of an uncircumcised penis. Jewish religious writers denounced such practices as abrogating the covenant of Abraham in 1 Maccabees and the Talmud <28>. Because of these attempts, and for other reasons, the Pharisees, ca. 100, added two more steps to the Biblical rite of circumcision"


BTW..My parents were in the military and I got CLIPPED because the military hosiptal.

[plcdude]

29. I am

but made sure my son was not. It is an ignorant custom not founded on any real science.

[no name no slogan]

30. I am not

and have no problems keeping clean. Amazing what a little soap and water will do these days.

[kwassa]

32. Yes, I have gone around the globe once.

[rbnyc]

37. Husband is not, son is not.

I'm so glad my husband is not, because I did not want my son to be and it may have been a more complicated issue if it meant that daddy and baby would be different.

I just think that there needs to be a really compelling reason for any kind of medical intervention.

So happy I didn't have to put my baby through that.

[khashka]

44. Am. Don't really give a fuck either way.

Still, I'm very interested in TJ, swimboy and Mads little foreskin discussion :evilgrin:


Khash.

[Beausoir]

45. Why are complete stangers so interested in the genitalia of my sons?

This just strikes me as very VERY odd here on DU.

Who spends this much time thinking about the genitals of little boys?

Get a life, people.

[Allenberg]

47. Am, and glad that I am, for hygenic reasons.

[xchrom]

51. i am circumcised -- but i like my men either way.

it's what they do with it that counts.:smoke: