Is your son uncircumcised?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: My now-adult sons are uncircumsized, like my dh.

It was actually never a topic of anything during childhood. Like, never. I'm glad I didn't do it.

Science ignorance is bliss

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a white people thing to not circumcise. It’s the new in thing, like Keto

You are ignorant and have obviously not traveled much. The rest of the world outside the US, except in Muslim and Jewish population/geographical areas do not circumcise routinely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHO/UNAIDS recommendations emphasize that male circumcision should be considered an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence.

Circumcision has also shown to greatly reduce transmission of HPV and herpes. However, it has not been shown to have an effect on syphilis so there's that, but syphilis is curable. HPV and herpes are not.

It may also reduce the rate of (rare) penile cancer and possibly cervical cancer in women.

We circumcised our son. We also have our kids the hpv vaccines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WHO/UNAIDS recommendations emphasize that male circumcision should be considered an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence.

Circumcision has also shown to greatly reduce transmission of HPV and herpes. However, it has not been shown to have an effect on syphilis so there's that, but syphilis is curable. HPV and herpes are not.

It may also reduce the rate of (rare) penile cancer and possibly cervical cancer in women.

We circumcised our son. We also have our kids the hpv vaccines.

Have = gave

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a white people thing to not circumcise. It’s the new in thing, like Keto

Only Muslims and Jews circumcise, right?

NP. And old white people, yeah.

[Anonymous]

Doctor here. I did circumcise my son. I realize that HIV prevalence is lower here, but circumcision can also reduce other infection transmission rates that would not only impact my son, but also his future partners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two boys ages 13 and 11, both circ’d. I’m a former RN and worked with a lot of HIV patients. It doesn’t matter if HIV is prevalent in the region, it matters if it’s prevalent in the person one has second with. I believed in the science - health related benefits of reducing likelihood of disease transmission - and I also recall working with pediatric patients who had multi-day hospital stays for circumcision at an older (pre-teen/early teen age).

The “uncut” son of anti-circ parents we know was recently circumcised at age 11. He was out of school for about a week and out of sports for something like 2-3 weeks while he recovered. It was apparently a very unpleasant (and humiliating) experience for him.

We circumcised after talking to an RN friend of ours. She said she'd care for many boys that had to have it done because of infections and other problems, and said every she now recommended circumcision for everyone.

[Anonymous]

I really don't get this "reduce infections/stds" thing. The easiest way to avoid getting an STD is to not have sex with people that have STDs. Teach your sons to respect themselves (and their future partners) enough to be selective in who they have sex with.

We don't do this with other medical issues! "oh there's a chance my child might have an eye injury one day, so we're just going to go ahead and have her eyes gouged out at birth."
"We're very concerned about cavities and dental health, so we'll remove all his teeth now as a newborn."

[Anonymous]

get a circ. don't be eurotrash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: My now-adult sons are uncircumsized, like my dh.

It was actually never a topic of anything during childhood. Like, never. I'm glad I didn't do it.

Science ignorance is bliss

Okay, sheeple! You should probably go put some more tin foil on your windows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't get this "reduce infections/stds" thing. The easiest way to avoid getting an STD is to not have sex with people that have STDs. Teach your sons to respect themselves (and their future partners) enough to be selective in who they have sex with.

We don't do this with other medical issues! "oh there's a chance my child might have an eye injury one day, so we're just going to go ahead and have her eyes gouged out at birth."
"We're very concerned about cavities and dental health, so we'll remove all his teeth now as a newborn."

+1
If the rate of STDs, penile cancer and other (less serious) infections were such a big problem, why hasn't it become standard procedure in any other developed countries?
Is hygiene practice here that bad?

[Anonymous]

I mentioned to my almost 7 year old DS that we chose not to circumcise him, and he said he was grateful.

On the other hand, sometimes I worry that he'll have issues with adhesion, because he doesn't want to pull the skin up, he says it's uncomfortable. Most likely it'll be fine, as he gets older this may well self-correct. But it's a chance you take when you don't circumcise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

but more than a 100 will experience phimosis and need to be circumcised, bet those more than a 100 parents really wish they circumcised in infancy. Actually, it’s about 0.6% of all uncircumcised males that will require surgery in later life.

Phimosis hardly compares to a risk of death or genital loss.

Risk of death from bleeding only happens in babies with underlying blood clotting conditions.How many cases of genital loss have you heard of in this century in the US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

but more than a 100 will experience phimosis and need to be circumcised, bet those more than a 100 parents really wish they circumcised in infancy. Actually, it’s about 0.6% of all uncircumcised males that will require surgery in later life.

Phimosis hardly compares to a risk of death or genital loss.

Risk of death from bleeding only happens in babies with underlying blood clotting conditions.How many cases of genital loss have you heard of in this century in the US?

The risk of infant death from circumcision is about the same as from SIDS. We do all sorts of inconvenient things to prevent SIDS death. But yet so many choose voluntary surgery on their child’s genitals for minor/questionable health benefits while downplaying the risks.

[Anonymous]

My son has hemophilia, while we didn’t know it at birth, we chose not to circ and I’m so thankful that we made that choice.