I have a son... we did opt for the procedure, but it was a very personal decsion.
If someone had told me I HAD to do this, I would have been pissed.
The CDC and docs, already do recommend this... so does the AMA.
This article poses the question, specifically:
Would we be okay with the government Mandating it, or requiring it...
An overwhelming NO!
The decision to do this, is totally a parentental thing. This should never become mandatory.
And as Katie B pointed out... there is also much much research, that this procedure, doesn't do much at all, to curb STD's to include HIV....
Having sex with someone that has HIV is how you contract it,,, circumcised or not...
A penis is easy to clean, even if the foreskin is in tact...it's called... move it out of the way and scrub...
Mothers do this for their kids when they are babies... and grown men, I think can handle it.
If we use this reasoning.. why not cut off women's labia majora... because they get in the way and "promote" uncleanliness?
I would have gladly left my son's in tact... but my husband really wanted it done, because of asthetic reasons... he remarked about how boys that he was around growing up, who were not circumcised, were hellishly teased... so he insisted on it and I did not argue that point.
But, in most other countries... this practice is not anywhere near as prevelant...
The foreskin is there for a reason... afterall...
It's the natural design of a male penis...
The practice has absolutely NO roots in medical necessity,,,
It first began as a religious practice...
