Agreed... The most amazing part about the mutilation, to me at least... Is that since most of the people who defend these actions defend them based on religious reasons... So... the same people who claim that humans were created in god's image, feel the need to "fix" things that apparently the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent deity screwed up on... :/

I tell you what any grown men who choose circumcision go ahead do what you fucking want, but keep your hands off the kids. If somebody had done that to me I'd now be going after them with rusty scissors.

This has come up before and some guys gave me heat. Imo, another example of humans trying to improve on the nature of nature. Why is the foreskin there? Obviously , a good reason. My son is now 38, not circumcised and has never had a problem.

My boys are not circumcised. I felt it would be wrong for me to make that choice for them. If they decide they want to be circumcised, I will support their decision.

It is mutilation and is therefore assault on a minor and a criminal offence. Child abuse is another name for it !

I was circumcised, but I was too young to remember it. All I know is I didn't walk for a year.

Keep your hands off other people's dicks.

If you want to cut up someones dick, cut your own.

Let your son decide if he wants to cut off the end of his dick. It's not yours, its his.

Don't take whats not yours.

Don't change what you can't replace of fix.

I love how women don't give a shit about cutting there son's dick off, but talk of cutting there daughter and they will loose there mind.

Its baffling.

well except for medical reasons there appears to be no point

Over 100 dead baby boys in the US alone from circumcision complications. Not to mention the botched jobs. [circinfo.org]

But 100% of those moms never had to teach there son to wipe the tip. So, I guess it was worth it. Right mom?

I was circumcised and had my sons circumcised when they were born, 1983 and 1984. If I'd known anything about this barbaric ritual I wouldn't have had the procedure on my 2 boys.
I'm so utterly apologetic to my two sons but it was what the physicians recommended.

I consider it abuse....cutting male genitals...I want mine back!!

I personally like a circumsiced penis.

We had planned to not circumcise our son, but do to urological issues, it was a necessity.

It seems like the prevailing thought on circumcision from many I have talked to are aesthetics, they don't want them looking different than dad and that they don't want them made fun of by other kids. It's small minded. The majority of the world doesn't circumcise.

Chopping bits of your genitalia off based on religious or cultural grounds is complete and utter bollocks (pardon the pun) It certainly shouldn't be done to children or women who clearly don't want it done. It's barbaric and cannot be justified.

The amount of ignorance on this post is the worst I've experienced on this website. Lots of vitriol, unsunstabtiated opinion, racist and sexist rants. Not every post, just most. This brought out the worst in the community. I'm particularly disappointed in my fellow males and the shallowness in their responses.

As a female I prefer circumcised but it's not my body. Just make sure you keep your flappy penis hat clean

Why could not you have been my mom!!

Circumcision is a million dollar business now. This is child abuse.

FGM is all about significant mental illness: mostly religiousily.

Anyone doing other should be hung by their bits.

Yes, because it has never been properly examined Your argument sounds a lot like global warming needs to be properly examined and acted on just because you don't agree with it. Here's a sample of not examining it...[newhealthadvisor.com]
2. Health
People usually circumcise the penis because compared with the circumcised penis, men who are not circumcised are at increased risk of many health conditions. It has been reported that:

There is over 12 times the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in uncircumcised infants compared with circumcised infants. What's more, this trend continues into adulthood, with the lifetime cumulated UTI prevalence 1 in 20 for circumcised men, but 1 in 3 for uncircumcised men.
Leaving the penis uncircumcised increases the risk of penile skin inflammation and infection three-fold. Different types of penile inflammation include those of the glans (balanitis), foreskin (posthitis), and both the glans and foreskin (balanoposthitis). Men can also suffer from inability to retract the foreskin (phimosis) and penile constriction due to a tight foreskin that doesn't return following retraction (paraphimosis). It's estimated that up to 18% uncircumcised boys will get one of the conditions by the age of eight. However, as circumcision removes the foreskin, the incidence of these conditions is much lower in circumcised males.
Penile cancer is more than 20 times less common in circumcised men compared with uncircumcised men. This is a serious disease in which a quarter of patients have died from it and the others need some form of penile amputation. However, it is important to know that penile cancer is rare, with low rates even in uncircumcised men.
When men become sexually active, an intact foreskin can increase 2-4 times the risk of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including genital herpes, human papillomavirus (HPV), thrush, chancroid, syphilis, and Trichomonas vaginalis. Lack of circumcision even puts a man's female partner at increased risk of STIs, with the incidence of genital herpes, Trichomonas vaginalis, bacterial vaginosis, sexually transmitted HPV (which causes cervical cancer), and possibly chlamydia up to five times more for women with uncircumcised partners.
Having a foreskin is the No. 1 risk factor for HIV infection in heterosexual men. Uncircumcised men have 2-8 times the risk of HIV, compared with circumcised men.
The chances of developing prostate cancer are 50-100% greater in uncircumcised men than those who are circumcised.

You realize the site you cited is called "the lighter side of science " right?

Me too. Any procedure like this needs informed consent unless its an emergency. Id go as far as saying that ear peircing in children should be outlawed.

One child death for a harmful cosmetic quasi religious surgery are too many in my view.

Even if there were no deaths and no possibility of sexual complications later on, it would still be immoral, because you would be permanently modifying someone Ilse's body without there consent.

When I was born, a doctor asked my parents if they would like them to permanently, surgically remove a portion of there son's dick and they said; "Yes, please do."

Its bullshit, that I don't have all of my body. Why was it taken and used to make skin grafts?

Its bullshit, that I'll never know what sex is "supposed" to feel like.

Its bullshit that my dick has scar tissue on it that causes complications and discomfort during sex. Not for my partner, but for me.

Fuck everyone who can not see the clear and blatant hypocrisy of allowing parents to permanently mutilate there child's genitalia.

My ex and I did a lot if researching before our son was born. We opted to not circumcise our son. One of the pieces of information we found was that circumcised men have less sensitivity in the head of the pens due to the head's constant exposure to clothing and all. Therefore it is believed that these men are "rougher" or more rigorous during sex. Uncircumcised men are more sensitive as a result of the foreskin protecting the area.
There was an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! That covered this subject. With a man that created a device to stretch skin back over the head.

I'm opposed to both, but FGM is orders of magnitude more invasive and barbaric than MGM. To say they are no different is similar to saying losing your fingertip of a pinky is no different than having your entire hand chopped off.

I don’t really have an opinion on circumcision, however, I believe it is the leading cause of erectile dysfunction later in life. Also, one of my friends that got circumcised later in life, said he wished he never did it because the climax was better with the extra skin.

Personally I am glad I was circumcised. The sensitivity around the bottom of the head of my penis is where most of the excitement comes from. Not trying to be crude, just honest. Having never been uncircumcised. I do not know if they feel the same stimulation.