Did you circumcise?

[Anonymous]

Of course not. We asked several doctors and none of them recommended it so there was no way we would justify it. His body, his choice. He can do it when he is old enough to decide for himself, if he would like to.

[Anonymous]

So y'all are having your sons' penises cut because of smegma? You know that women get smegma too, right?

[Anonymous]

No way was I letting anyone take a knife to my baby. And I'm Jewish, too.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Let my husband make the decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother didn't get my younger brother circumcised and seeing what she ended up having to go through raising him made me pretty adamant that when my son was born he would leave the hospital without his extra real estate (thank you pp that used that phrase because that's all I'm going to call it now).

Up until my brother was in high school, he had pretty terrible hygiene (which is to be expected of boys) so from like kindergarten onwards, my mother had to nag him about everything: "have you brushed your teeth?" "have you taken a shower?" "have you put deodorant on?" "did you wash your hair" etc, over and over, until she became almost demented. Of course, the other thing she had to ask was "did you pull it back?" which once he was a pre-teen was absolutely mortifying to hear from your mom, but was necessary to ask because just like the other questions the answer was usually no.

Over the years he had infections and phimosis, and almost needed to get circumcised when he was thirteen, but chickened out at the last minute. It's obviously been years since he's been young enough for me to be in the loop about what's going on down there, and while he seems to have fine hygiene as an adult now, for all I know he's still having issues with it.

When I was pregnant with my son, my mother told me she really regretted not doing it and that I should consider it. I told her I was way ahead of her.

I see so many moms on here say "oh I'm not gonna get my son circumcised, I'm just gonna teach him to clean himself." Teach him all you want, doesn't mean he'll actually do it, at least not until he's older.

So we should cut off anything on our kids that they might not wash well enough?

That's a whole lotta stuff that needs to come off.....

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t circumcision prevent penile cancer, utis, lower risk of stds etc? I have girls but those seem like fair reasons to get it done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t circumcision prevent penile cancer, utis, lower risk of stds etc? I have girls but those seem like fair reasons to get it done.

I'm no urologist so I don't know anything academic, but I've always wondered if those numbers had any statistic significance, and if so why wouldn't circumcision be recommended in all of the other developed countries? Why is the rate so high only in the US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way was I letting anyone take a knife to my baby. And I'm Jewish, too.

Dam

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course not. We asked several doctors and none of them recommended it so there was no way we would justify it. His body, his choice. He can do it when he is old enough to decide for himself, if he would like to.

Shut up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uncircumcised is yuck. I ended up not sleeping with a guy in college because it turned me off.

Ew no one wanted to sleep with you did they?

[Anonymous]

Cleaners, less cancer risk and easier to care for. Aesthetically pleasing is a bonus.

[Anonymous]

We did and I don’t have regrets about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn’t circumcision prevent penile cancer, utis, lower risk of stds etc? I have girls but those seem like fair reasons to get it done.

Yup. Even if you ignore the social benefits and the aesthetic benefits, it's just the healthy thing to do for boys. I honestly put anti-circers on the same level as anti-vaxxers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cleaners, less cancer risk and easier to care for. Aesthetically pleasing is a bonus.

Exactly, making sure my son didn't have a penis that looks like a wrinkly anteater was just a bonus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No b/c you can always do it later but you can’t undo it.

This precisely.