its all about peer pressure and whats around you.me i was UC with a CUT older brother.
Psychologically felt need to be cut and was cut at age 26
i was a med intern at time and on the floor out of 6 guys only 2 of us were UC and i WANTED to be like the other CUT guys. i found CUT a turn on.

thought it rocked for many years.

Today UC is fashionable.

i find myself in Dublin rep of Ireland today where most are UC
although i love my cut cock, boys here prefer UC

i prefer (used to prefer Cut) what im trying top say is, i wish i was in USA where more men are CUT then id feel regular..feeling regulr depends on wether yr peers are cut or UNCUT and being the same.

Deep down i yearn for some horny cut wankers to have fun with.although skins can be interesting and sexy also.

…infection rate amounts to 6000 cases per year, and a 4% overall rate of complications requiring treatment represents 48,000 patients experiencing avoidable morbidity. – Schwartz, et al. “Pediatric Primary Care: A Problem-solving Approach” pp 861-862

here’s what the American Academy of Pediatrics has to say:

“The notion that circumcision is a useful prophylactic against disease has been laid to rest by the 1999 AAP Task Force on Circumcision.52 Instead, healthy, natural alternatives such as breastfeeding and rooming-in must be given favour. Breastfeeding offers a wide range of benefits for both mother and baby. Circumcision is surgery, and as such it has attendant risks. Furthermore, circumcision causes a great deal of pain, entails permanent loss of sexual function and sensation, which raises serious ethical questions concerning informed consent.31 Circumcision is not an operation to be performed lightly.”

48,000 infected or damaged babies a year for the circumcised, a death or 2 thrown in for good measure, leaves you with nothing. Come back when you can bring something to the table. I’m tired of beating this very dead horse.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Misleading_Information.asp
“The consensus among studies that have taken these other factors into account is circumcision is not of value in preventing cancer of the penis.”

So my absurd idea of removing one breast would actually prevent around 20,000 death’s per year. Whereas your idea of circumcising babies prevents no cancer deaths at all. Now tell me how your stance is less absurd.

OK, we can agree that it is unethical to circumcise an adult against his will. What about a minor around 16. Is it ethical to force a 16 year old, against his will, to get what is in essecne cosmetic surgery? If no, then how would you have felt if at 16 your parents decided that you needed a nose job. Would they have the right to make you get one?

The attached foreskin idea came from my pediatrician, and numerious parenting books(eg I’m sure Dr. Sears has some info on it in his book) that you should never retract an infants foreskin because it is attached. This was also obvious when cleaning my son’s penis several times a day for 2 years.
As far as there having been helpful in times past, that is true. But most of us don’t go swimming in the Nile anymore where there are a plethora of parasites to pick up.
As for it being less traumatic at birth and less chance of infection? At birth a child has an undeveloped immune system relying a lot on the colosterum from it’s mother. It only has this if it is breast fed. Bottle fed babies will be even more suseptable to infection. And then there’s the idea of rubbing an open wound in a babies poopy diaper, which essentially is what happens with a circumcision. And then there’s the whole tearing a layer of skin off the glans that I would think makes the whole process more traumatic. So the only drawback of waiting untill the process is actually much less traumatic is that you’ll have to explain what you’re doing to him and he might remember it. Like I said not being circed can always be remedied later but circuncision cannot ever be fully remidied.

“These complications that result in not circumcising occur at a much higher rate than Breast Cancer”

I call BS. Find me some evidence that circed men are dieing as fast as women are of breast cancer. Heck I doubt the rate of serious complications doesn’t even compare to the mortality rate of breast cancer.

“The absurdity lies in bucking the status quo for the reason that it is the status quo.” You’re just spouting BS here, totally ignoring the numerious reasons I have posted for not doing it. I said nothing about bucking the status quo for the sake of bucking the status quo. I said the status quo is why we do it and that’s not necessarily a good reason.
Can we all at least agree that it’s unethical to circumcise a grown man against his wishes without him needing it to save his life? Despite all of the supposed benifits?

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/10/26feature2.html

Also, fwiw, any guy i’ve been in the shower with has spent the majority of the time washing his privates, so i’m inclined not to buy the cleanliness argument…

1. apply lotion to your elbow
2. straighten arm
3. play with loose elbow skin
4. you now realize the added benefit of foreskin in its entirety

Thad Jr. has had some interesting times with the fairer sex being uncut ..but mostly it’s due to a lack of exposure to anything but the status quo. i certainly don’t remember any locker room ridicule growing up or insecurities … my $.02

Circumcision, as I understand it, removes the foreskin immediately – that’s kind of the whole point. And while it has been proven to cut down on penile cancer, it became common practice more for cutting down (tremendously) on urinary tract infections and other such ailments due to the bacteria and the like that are well-harbored under foreskins. Of course practicing good hygiene will suffice almost as well.

I gotta confess, I’ve never thought so much about foreskins in my life before today. I keep wondering what I’d do with mine if I had one. How far could it stretch, how sensitive would the tissue be, that sort of thing.

I’m also finding myself wondering how I could trick mine out. Maybe tattoo flames underneath! Piercings and such, all the jazzy little barbells and so forth that could be placed through my imaginary foreskin, or a funky pattern I could cut into it. Maybe I could do a ring of points, kind of like Kermit the Frog’s collar, or Jughead Jones’ hat. Might be like a built-in french tickler, woo-hoo!

Alas, I’m already cut…oh well.

I would also be curious to see where the line breaks on early ear piercing for girls. It is something that is entirely arbitrary, but still can cause a bit of trauma in the newborn.