Reply #60: oh fer chrissakes -- teenage boys have problems deciding what haircuts to get

[Donnachaidh]

You really want to put an important decision like THAT in their lives? Look up the word TRAUMATIZE while you think about it.

Look, I'm a parent of an uncircumcised teenaged boy. But we opted out because of a medical condition that could have given him problems having it done.

I do recall the absolute WAVE of hospital employees who were aghast and shocked that we wouldn't automatically have him circumsized. There was literally *6* signs around his bassinet with HUGE lettering stating *NO CIRCUMCISION*. You'd have thought we had sentenced him to death!

He's had some acquaintances who have reacted strangely to the fact that he is whole. He doesn't have a problem with it.

Do I think our society has a hang up about foreskins? Yup. We were giggling yesterday about that new Arizona law, and wondering if he would be deported out of the state because he's not cut.

But I don't think teenage boys are mature enough to make the decision. They are just as hormonal and crazed as teenage girls are. Mess with their junk? Uhhh, no...