Posted on 04/05/2006 5:19:29 PM PDT by Giant Conservative
When my son was born my wife was hesitant to have the proceedure done. The doctor said it was common practice so we went along with it. Afterwards we figured out why it was common practice. The answer is simple $$$$$$$$$$ , for the hospital and the doctor. Its not common practice "ITS A BUSINESS"! Its a "multi million dollar industry" that the MDs and Hospitals don't want to lose out on. We were manipulated just as most are. The doctor said; "you don't want him to look at you and think he's different do you?" He was right, when the kid turned 10 I shaved the top his head. Now I have to find a way to make his hair on the side grey.
It WAS okay to the cultures that did it....otherwise they wouldn't have done it.
You are reading history backwards.
Thanks for the input.
Nice to know that SOME baby boys got a pass on the knife.
I didn't have kids. And the women who did have the kids, boys included, NEVER brought up the subject.
Mothering Magazine speaks for all liberal mothers/women? I seriously doubt it. Anecdotal evidence is all there really is....and I WAS speaking anecdotally.
Finally, it really WASN'T a topic of discussion when I was younger. Now, everything is....which is probably pretty good. But, trust me, outside of the group of young parents (mostly young mothers) the topic ISN'T discussed. It truly isn't. Lol. And I don't care to venture to any of these sites....they put me to snooze-control very fast.
I'm glad your sons didn't suffer.
It's still a useless thing to do. No purpose for it at all anymore beyond religious reasons. 90% of the human males on this planet don't have it done. If it were so important, necessary and/or desireable the reverse would be true.
Common sense.
Place naked, screaming, day old, infant spread eagle, on his back, in plastic mold (made especially for circumcision).
Strap restraints at ankles and wrist, arms and across chest of screaming infant.
Doctor pulls foreskin of screaming infant and slices off foreskin with no anesthesia.
Place gauze with infused antibiotic petroleum jelly over penis.
Place diaper on screaming baby.
Clothe baby and try and console infant boy who had surgery performed on extremely sensitive part of his body with no anesthesia.
After witnessing this I swore that none of my boys would be circumcised. I guess it helped that I am not Jewish and my husband is from Europe.
There is no way that my daughters went through this when they got their ears pierced.
Just liberal women are against this?
Just 90% of the rest of the PLANET are against circumcision and DON'T circumcize their baby boys.
Well put, It's me.
Thanks for adding LIGHT to the subject....instead of just heat.
...but you kind of need those ears to hear and whatnot. Does a foreskin serve any IMPORTANT biological function?
90% of the rest of the PLANET
Source please.
And think about it logically; male circumcision is dictated by Judeism and Islam. A good majority of Christians also participate in the practice. When you take those three groups alone, there's not exactly 90% of the world's male population left over. More around 40-60%, maybe less.
Losing their foresking is a big thing with the gays. LOL, a penis with a foreskin is so ugly.
The operative word here is nonreligious.
Yep - They're a "cut above"! ;-P
Does anyone know if Muslims circumcise?
I am begining to think this is a Christian vs Muslim issue.
On that note, I think to each his own. What's done is done. Am I supposed to feel guilty because I had my boys circumcised now? As I said in a previous post, I did read up on it. I prayed about it. For whatever reason, felt it should be done. My husband or I was present for three of them. I have a good friend who did not have her boys circumcised. She has not judged my decision, but said if I felt it needed to be done the best way was for my husband and I to be with the baby when it is done.
LOL
Bull Hockey
Is it barbarism if it is done by a viking kitty?
Although being far from virginal--for that matter being more than a bit promiscuous in my younger (Navy) days--I have never had an STD. This, despite the fact that I've not always practiced safe sex. For that matter, in my 37 years, I've never had any medical problems related to my foreskin.
Furthermore, women have never seemed to care one way or the other about this.
The only problem I've ever had was that of a social nature in [roughly] the 6th grade. A few of the other boys in my gym class would make fun of me in the locker room because I looked different than they did.
Anyway, my wife and I decided that since it's worked out so well for me, our son didn't need to have the painful procedure perfomed. At six monthsof age, no problems except for an ignorant daycare provider with whom he no longer has to suffer.
Muslims do circumcise. It's been pointed out multiple times in this thread.
And to be honest, I have no idea how this 'issue' became a debate. oo
It's a dying practice, like it or not.
This isn't judgmental, really, but I personally find it appalling. I find nose piercing appalling too, but not ear piercing. Purely subjective on my part....but the foreskin cutting?
Sorry, I don't think I will ever think it's a good thing. I always wondered why Americans did it. I knew Jews did it for religious reasons. But Americans? When the rest of the world DIDN'T do it? When I found out how MANY people didn't do it (somewhere in the late 60's), especially the very clean, anticeptic Japanese and Europeans....I knew that it WASN'T necessary for health, present or future.
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