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Originally Posted by Arsenic7
As has been said It's unnecessary.
To me it is equivalent to cutting off our childrens pinky fingers and toes, because, hey, they are unnecessary, and doing so lowers their chance of developing PINKY cancer or hurting their PINKY or sticking their pinky in their ass, not washing their hands, and comming down with a case of STINKY PINKY!
Also, to prevent confusion, the most common form of female circumcision is almost completely analogous to male circumcision...it is just the removal of the clitoral hood.
And yet one is mutilation and the other "normal" here.
Also, for the parents who want it done to their son when they are young because THEY had it done...why not let the child decide when he is an adult? Shouldn't it be his decision? You know those parents you've heard about who pierced their baby's ears or nose? How'd you react to that? What if a parent decided they wanted to tattoo their baby because it was family tradition?
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Many cultures do, in fact, pierce their daughter's ears as babies or tattoo their children. We here pierce every part of our bodies, tattoo til there's barely plain skin left. Culturely speaking, those are relatively benign.
I'm on the fence about circumcision as I do think it's a involuntary body modification that the child doesn't choose-yet I chose it done to him. Do I feel guilty? Very small part of me does. Keep in mind though, it is a more serious procedure done to an adult and one in which the pain of it would be remembered. My son was done his second day and by the time we all went home on their sixth day, there wasn't even a bandage. To those who complain their parents 'destroyed' their genitalia I would say two things: 1)we did the best we could with the knowledge we had and 2) you can't miss what you never experienced. Get over it.