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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I'm just as shocked as the posters above, but for a different reason.
Why should I see this is as mutilation? I happen to think that circumcised penises look better, and if pornography is any indicator.. so do a lot of people.
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Because a lot of people like something does not neccesarily make it right. And it proves nothing other than what the majority of males are having done (or not done) to them. European porn has a lot of uncircumcised penises what does that prove?
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Furthermore, my parents circumcised me for health reasons, not religious reasons (my father is a rabid atheist). There was credible evidence (and still is credible evidence) that it provides a health benefit. Common sense alone tells me that a damp dark place is not as clean as an exposed area. Science most assuredly backs this claim (not penis cancer, those studies were not very well controlled -- but bacterial infections) and so I have no problem with it.
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My parents circumcised me for health reasons. It was reason it was proscribed to the vast majority of babies in the past. Most of the reasoning behind this has been proven false or spurious at best.
Your common sense approach would suggest that all women should be dirty and/or bacteria ridden. The vagina is damp, dark place and excretes the same fluids (for lack of a more techincal term) as the glans below the foreskin do.
Soap and water. Say it with me. Soap and water.
I understand the urge to prepetuate this uneccessary proceedure upon our kids. Believe me. I am circumsized and when we had my son I had to think about it. Did I want my son to look different from me? In my mind, all I know is the circumsized penis.
After some thought and some discussion and some research... I decided to not have it done.
It was uneccessary. There was no pressing reason to have it done. Aesthetics and "just because I like it" is not a good enough reason.