To chop or not to chop?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Just to throw a little more out there -- my little lemur can always get circumcised, if he likes, when he grows up. You can always take away, but you can never put it back.

Reason enough to leave his willie alone.

It's not a big deal for a baby, but for an adult it's a major ordeal. I believe one of the reasons circumcision became popular was that there is a chance they would have to get it for medical reasons later, and no one wanted to put them through that.

[Lemur]

Watch a video of a baby being circumcised. Trust me, it's a big deal for them. Just because they don't remember it later doesn't obviate the screaming and apparent agony they face when they're chopped. At least as an adult you can get anesthesia -- which is not available for a newborn.

Honestly, I think the practice is barbaric. What reading I did when I was faced with this question indicated that the popularity of circumcision in 20th century America had a lot to do with early-century anti-masturbation hysteria.

If there's real interest, I'll dig up my old research and post it here.

[GoreBag]

Honestly, I think the practice is barbaric.

Not really pertinent at all, but I do think this position is hilarious.

[Pannonian]

Post by Gorebag
I don't know why, but I find your name amusing in juxtaposition with the thread subject. An operation gone wrong, perhaps?

[GoreBag]

What did it say before the edit?

[Lemur]

I'm just pleased that I can provide GoreBag with some amusement. Mission accomplished!

[Pannonian]

What did it say before the edit?

I used empty quotes=Gorebag, but it didn't appear properly onscreen.

[GoreBag]

Gotcha.

Thank you for inquiring about my genitals. Business hours are 1800 to 0300. However, there was no botched operation, as I'm sure you'll be pleased to know, so you'll have to strain a little harder to figure the pseudonym out, I guess.

[Aenlic]

I wasn't given a choice. It was just standard medical practice in the US in the 1950's. Not that I'd have been able to make an intelligent decision; since at that point I was only capable of sleeping, eating and occasionally spewing out of one end or the other.

[IrishArmenian]

I got it. I think it is good that I got the knife when I was a baby. Cleaning is easier.

[Divinus Arma]

How goes your science project lars573? (spare the details please)

[Incongruous]

I can't belive I just read through this entire thread...

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

It has a morbid facination, doesn't it?

I'm so glad we had sex-ed, otherwise I'd probably be in Lars' situation right now.

Bad skin is usually caused by diet. In my case Chocolate. Eat more fruit and less sweets, a face scrub can also help. Give it a couple of weeks and youy may not need to go to the dock,

Oh, and Lars, the smell starts in days, take it from someone who's shared military showers.

[caravel]

Watch a video of a baby being circumcised. Trust me, it's a big deal for them. Just because they don't remember it later doesn't obviate the screaming and apparent agony they face when they're chopped. At least as an adult you can get anesthesia -- which is not available for a newborn.

Honestly, I think the practice is barbaric. What reading I did when I was faced with this question indicated that the popularity of circumcision in 20th century America had a lot to do with early-century anti-masturbation hysteria.

If there's real interest, I'll dig up my old research and post it here.

Agree 100%. Circumcision is in fact pointless mutilation.