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Should parents have the right to circumcise their children? Whether it is for medical or religious purposes?
Both I think, if you are jewish then it is tradition if not, "it" is harder to keep clean if not circumcized.alex said:Should parents have the right to circumcise their children? Whether it is for medical or religious purposes?
Complications from circumcision are low, approximately 0.2 to 0.6 percent. A total of three deaths have been ascribed to circumcision since 1954. In contrast, more than 1,000 U.S. men develop penile cancer each year, 225-317 of whom die. Circumcision effectively prevents penile cancer. Of 60,000 cases since 1930, fewer than 10 have involved circumcised men. Circumcision also eliminates foreskin problems such as inflammation, failure to retract, etc. These persist in non-circumcising nations such as the UK despite presumed familiarity with proper foreskin hygiene.
One cost-benefit analysis (Ganiats et al, 1991) found that circumcision had a "net discounted lifetime cost" of $102 and a health cost of 14 hours of healthy life
Androvski said:Circumcision is a lot more common place in the US than in the UK.I've only met a few men who have been circumcised and then it has been for medical reasons.
Most men here remain "uncut".
alex said:That is interesting. Do you believe that parents should have the right to have someone do it? Was it more common at one time and if it was, why no longer?
I never understood this argument. Why is it so important that your son's penis match his father's?? If that's not a "cosmetic" issue, then I don't know what is. Will you dye your son's hair to match his father's? If his father lost an arm in an accident, would you then have your son's arm amputed so he would look like his father? I just don't get it....Personally, I chose to have my son's foreskin removed. I did so because his father was circumcised as well.
It wasn't so much a "cosmetic" issue as it was a family decission.
sarathan said:I never understood this argument. Why is it so important that your son's penis match his father's?? If that's not a "cosmetic" issue, then I don't know what is. Will you dye your son's hair to match his father's? If his father lost an arm in an accident, would you then have your son's arm amputed so he would look like his father? I just don't get it....
I'm guessing this means that you don't have one. If you had one, long before the time you got to be my age, you'd've had enough help to've discovered some very good reasons to have one.Missouri Mule said:I can think of a whole lot of reasons to have it done but none in favor of not having it done.
Simon W. Moon said:If you had one, long before the time you got to be my age, you'd've had enough help to've discovered some very good reasons to have one.
JustineCredible said:I did say it was a "family" decission." If you didn't see that part, I can't force it on you.
I still believe it is a private matter between the parents, if their religion requires it it's still their decission.
It's not a doctor's decission or any other outside party.
Given the crunchy crowd I imagine you run with, just one?Kelzie said:I have had one uncircumcised boyfriend. It was...a surprise for sure.:lol:
Simon W. Moon said:Given the crunchy crowd I imagine you run with, just one?