Circumcise my baby boy?

[gorie]

dear jason_t,

i am afraid of your weiner.

sincerely,
gorie

[jakethebake]

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1.) Because his daddy is circumcised and he's going to identify with that.

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This is probably the only legitimate reason. You don't want his first thoughts about his penis to be, "Why do I look different than daddy? Is there something wrong with me?"

[mushi]

Ill begin by saying that I am jew so I am bias in a way b/c all my familey and most of my friends (I leave in Israel) are cirucmsized.

Leaving aside religion and health issues which have been discussed before.

I understand from your post that you are circumsized. So heres the deal. I knew a jewish guy who was going to get married with a non jewish girl and he wanted to circumsize his son. His reason beeing that he wants his son to has the same as him (as stupid as it sounds it might be a point). At the end they had a daughter, baptised her and called her Maria.

God works in mysterious ways

mushi [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

[jason_t]

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dear jason_t,

i am afraid of your weiner.

sincerely,
gorie

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but but... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[MikeNaked]

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It's a subject more fit for instinctive and deeply felt reactions than discussion. You're not going to get a lot of circumcised people saying it's unnecessary or somehow not the best idea. The impact of religion and culture on the issue is pretty overwhelmingly determinative, too. Match up cultural and religious norms with deeply personal self-consciousness on a primal level, and you're just not going to get a lot of people saying let's call the whole thing off.

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Interesting how the responses of both questions are so closely correlated...good call Blarg!

[mslif]

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I think you should have him circumcised. I have heard that boys can be very mean in school to other boys who are uncircumcised.

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I did not experience this.

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As I said, I have heard of it. Obviously I would not know for a fact.

[bwana devil]

im seriously struggling w/ the same problem. my friends think im an idiot and cant understand why im even considering not doing it. seems like the US trend is finally swinging toward the european ways and it wont be all that unusual for boys not to be circumsized.

i am circumsized and am glad i am because i wouldnt want the ladies to have jumped when my pants came down. but seems like times they are a changing. im w/ you and will be doing more research on the matter.

btw do you mean youre indifferent on the matter rather than ambivalent?

bwana

[man]

I'm uncut. it rules. I would never circumcise my kid because it's not necessary. apparently uncircumsized people are more likely to transmit HIV, and are more likely to get infections. but the correlation is pretty small.

wikipedia rules:

circumcision

medical analysis of circumcision

I think the "why am I not like daddy" argument is pretty strong here. but do what feels right, I guess.

[Jack of Arcades]

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1.) Because his daddy is circumcised and he's going to identify with that.

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This is probably the only legitimate reason. You don't want his first thoughts about his penis to be, "Why do I look different than daddy? Is there something wrong with me?"

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My father is circumcised, I am not, and this was never a problem.

[Exitonly]

Is there any downside to getting it done?

The downsides may be incredibly small for not getting it done, but they exist. (Cleaning/infections/"being different") I'm not saying that any of those thigns matter at all, or ever exist really. But are there any potential downsides to getting it done?