The Big C: Circumcision

Well, I think you find that when it's already happened to you, and you have no memory of it, and it hasn't caused any perceptible loss of function, you don't really mind. At least that's my experience and the vast experience of circumcised men. Sounds painfully and permanently debilitating. So I guess I'm opposed. Why, what did you think I would say?

Upon doing exactly that, I discovered that my wife at least felt that a token snip of the labia, performed at birth and entailing no alteration of function later in life, was not that big a deal.I have no reason to suspect that my wife is alone in this assessment, I guess.

Then why do people opt for the procedure? For that matter, how many people in your sample can't tell the difference?And why do men without foreskins have more sex, and report greater satisfaction with their sex lives?As has been mentioned, America has the greatest incidence of circumcision in men. Americans have the most sex, on average, of any nation on Earth. Now, I'm not trying to argue causality, but I find that may be indicative of something.

Well, in trying to find the pro-circumcision studies I once had, I've more or less found a vast weight of data suggesting that I'm wrong about it.So, I'll let my sons decide for themselves, I guess. No circumcisions for them unless they tell me they want them.But neither am I going to get upset because I was myself circumcised. Of all the things my parents may have done to me, that had probably the least effect on my life.

Sorry, I guess I meant "you" in the general sense of "a person", not you specifically. Plenty of men don't mind their circumcisions. Ergo it's probably the case for plenty of people that if they don't have something, and never did, they don't miss it.It wasn't my intent to dictate to you what you would or would not mind. But I see that it came off that way. Sorry. I'd be more concerned about what kind of culture would cause two people to feel that that was something they needed to have done to their child. With no knowledge of what culture they're in I can't really say whether it's ok or not. But in the culture I'm in, no, that's not ok, it's kind of racist, or even perverse.

No, I'd be openly critical of such a culture. What I can hardly criticise are the two parents in such a culture who are doing precisely what they have always been taught is well and good.I'm openly critical of our culture, as well. For the reasons that you would suspect.

Well, the wife and I are about 10 years away from this being an issue. I can only hope that American society has changed enough that I won't feel like I'm having to choose between a risky medical procedure and years of locker-room insult for him.But hey, maybe they'll all be girls.