Don't Be Scared to Circumcise Your Baby Boy

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Those opposed to circumcision fail to consider the preventative health benefits THE SCIENCE IS IN !!! The HIV virus is absorbed by the inner lining of the foreskin within ONE HOUR of making contact !!! Women have 25 % less chance of acquiring the papilloma virus and cervical cancer if the male is circumcised (published in the Lancet last week)
Highly emotional subjective arguments should be ignored
Rest assured, his minor operation is very safe and has a lifetime of benefits

John glazebrook of CA 2:15AM February 15, 2011

As a doctor, your DUTY is to due what's in the best interest of the PATIENT. The patient is the newborn, not the parents. Advocating "cosmetic", "non-therapeutic" surgery on newborns is NOT just, and should be considered reason enough to constitute revoking one's ability to practice medicine.
Doctors know there is lots of money to be made in circumcising newborns. There's money in it for all the complications, both immediate and long term. Psychologically speaking, there's drugs to deal with PTSD. There's drugs to deal with erectile dysfunction and sexual displeasure. There's BIG money in selling foreskins to biotechnology labs. It's a MEDICAL FRAUD, and it's these poor, innocent, helpless babies and children who're paying the high price for these doctors' circumcision related profits. They don't pay for it just at the time of their surgery, but for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.

Linda of MI 11:17PM January 14, 2011

I'm glad to see that the only two pro-circ comments on this thread are from obvious nutcases. The first a young male from the Philippines who I regretfully see is now working in Texas as an RN.
The Philippines is one of the few circumcising nations on Earth, where male circumcision is a primitive tribal ritual. As a gay man he obviously has no appreciation for what he is missing out on, and as a Christian he is obviously unaware of the manifold pronouncements within the New Testament of the irrelevance of male circumcision to spirituality. He mentions Genesis 17 (a reference to Jewish circumcision) but fails to mention Leviticus 18 which is used by fundamentalist Christians to condemn homosexuality.
He also fails to state that the only reason their neighbour, South Korea, practices RIC is because of American military influence during the Korean War. His blogspot has an apt name for his mental state.
The second pro-circ comment is from a person who calls himself 'Ralph Mouth' and who indeed sounds like Ralph from the Simpsons regurgitating the most inane and stupid American propaganda on genital aesthetics.
All in all we have both the religious argument ("foreskin is a powerful symbol of sin") and the secular argument ("the look of an intact penis is gross and should have no place in America") covered. If sin does exist then surely the greater sin is to defile God's creation in the most heinous way by mutilating the genitals of a child. And it is the idea that intact genitalia look "gross" that is gross. If American's want to look better they can start by losing weight; leave personal genital aesthetics up to the individual and the decision of whether to surgically (read "cosmetically") alter genitals up to the owner.

Anthony 6:37AM January 10, 2011

What male wants to cut off part of their body on purpose? let alone their penis! circumcision should be illegal for all babies! I made an uninformed decision because I was never told anything by doctors, nurses etc. Now I have to feel guilty forever for making a decision I should never have had to make in the first place!

Becky of WI 1:54PM December 10, 2010

As one who had the procedure as an adult,I can certainly say that I would not recommend it. There is too much loss of feeling.Most reasons for having it done in the first place have other solutions.I definitely vote against its routine use.

Byrd of NC 9:15AM December 10, 2010

Some men are very emotional about having a body part removed as they say, without their consent. But MD's found out what religion knew LONG ago--it's very beneficial to circumcise all males (Genesis 17, see discussion by Cheryl Schatz on the foreskin being "a powerful symbol of sin, it must be cut off.") In the Philippines, the United Church of Christ among others, as in South Korea, pays for males to be circumcised and women are only too happy to perform the circumcisions http://randomlyconfusedandlost.blogspot.com/

Charles of TX 3:46PM November 07, 2010

All baby boys should be circumcised. It looks better and the boy won't get harrassed by his friends and girls. The look of an intact penis is gross and should have no place in America.

Ralph Mouth of CA 4:23PM October 26, 2010

So basically: mutilate him permanently so that he will reduce the chances of getting HIV from having unprotected sex in Africa just in case he decides not to wear a condom, and to prevent his wife from getting HPV which a condom would probably also protect from...
Don't let him choose because it would be a hard choice, choose for him in something that will affect him as an adult. He's not informed enough to make the choice, but naturally you are, because you list to agenda-driven doctors?

Tyciol 6:50AM August 02, 2010