Are Boys Bullied for being Uncircumcised?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mostly educated parents aren't doing it unless they're Jewish. So no, to your question.

+1. OP's question would have made sense 40 years ago, not now. Circ rates in the US have been going down for decades, and no developed country except the US has ever done mass circ, so in highly educated areas you can expect more boys to be intact than cut.

This is a medical crisis of ignorance and the AAP stepped in to make sure people know that there are medical benifits.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/08/22/explaining-the-drop-in-circumcision-rates/

he American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) finds that circumcision has potential medical benefits and advantages, as well as risks. A recent analysis by the AAP concluded that the medical benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks. We recommend that the decision to circumcise is one best made by parents in consultation with their pediatrician, taking into account what is in the best interests of the child, including medical, religious, cultural, and ethnic traditions and personal beliefs.

Your pediatrician (or your obstetrician if he or she would be performing the circumcision) should discuss the benefits and risks of circumcision with you and the forms of analgesia that are available.

Last Updated 9/5/2013

Interesting on this issue the new pc is to ignore the medical advice, ignore the risk/benefit analysis and do the pc thing.

[Anonymous]

Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?

Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?

Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

I am of the opinion that the possible benefits outside of Africa do not warrant the procedure. And there are physicians from every medically advanced country who are of that same opinion.

Are you a physician? Or just a lay mommy who reads headlines?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?

Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

did you read this part: "We recommend that the decision to circumcise is one best made by parents in consultation with their pediatrician, taking into account what is in the best interests of the child, including medical, religious, cultural, and ethnic traditions and personal beliefs. "

The statement " the medical benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks." simply means exactly that: it's not *that* risky, and there are benefits to it. I think they put out this statement to counter some beliefs that the risks were too great. No where does it say that the AAP recommends it full stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?

Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

I am of the opinion that the possible benefits outside of Africa do not warrant the procedure. And there are physicians from every medically advanced country who are of that same opinion.

Are you a physician? Or just a lay mommy who reads headlines?

Biomedical researcher married to md with a family full of mds. Are you the lay mommy? Perhaps this link will help: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/newborn-male-circumcision.aspx.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IF evolution/god/creator wanted us men to be circ'd, we would have been born that way. But we're now. All come out with foreskin, the way nature intended.

Don't listen to some story book, no matter how old it is.

That's what I told my child. "IF evolution/god/creator wanted us to have good eyesight, we would have been born that way." For some reason he still chose to get glasses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?

Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

I am of the opinion that the possible benefits outside of Africa do not warrant the procedure. And there are physicians from every medically advanced country who are of that same opinion.

Are you a physician? Or just a lay mommy who reads headlines?

Biomedical researcher married to md with a family full of mds. Are you the lay mommy? Perhaps this link will help: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/newborn-male-circumcision.aspx.

The link doesn't work, but I've read the AAP's position, and it certainly does not say that 'the definitive medical reality is that infant male circumcision should be performed routinely'.

I'm a lay person. And you must be one shitty researcher if you can't see that one can look at the studies and come away with different stances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?
Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

Yes in Africa they have female genital trimming for health reason just like for the males.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?
Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

Yes in Africa they have female genital trimming for health reason just like for the males.

Go ahead and ignore the health benefits and when your son gets penile cancer, repeat urinary tract infections, increased chances for hiv, etc., explain to him that you ignored the research because you wanted him t keep his little flap of skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?
Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

Yes in Africa they have female genital trimming for health reason just like for the males.

Go ahead and ignore the health benefits and when your son gets penile cancer, repeat urinary tract infections, increased chances for hiv, etc., explain to him that you ignored the research because you wanted him t keep his little flap of skin.

Most men in Europe are not circumcised. Do they have a higher rate of penile cancer, hiv, STDs? I don't think so. I will explain to my uncirc. DS that I couldn't cause him such pain as a newborn. He can decide for himself what he wants to do when he's more informed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not touching one if its not cut. Gross

I feel the same way about brown nipples. If I get the bra off and the nipples aren't pink, gross, I'm outta there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?
Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

Yes in Africa they have female genital trimming for health reason just like for the males.

Go ahead and ignore the health benefits and when your son gets penile cancer, repeat urinary tract infections, increased chances for hiv, etc., explain to him that you ignored the research because you wanted him t keep his little flap of skin.

Please share the statistics on the different outcomes. My understanding is they are minuscule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the advice. Actually look at it.

Do you live in Africa?

Of course I did. The health benefits are applicable beyond Africa. Are you really that dumb or just so wedded to your own decision that you are blind to medical reality?

I am of the opinion that the possible benefits outside of Africa do not warrant the procedure. And there are physicians from every medically advanced country who are of that same opinion.

Are you a physician? Or just a lay mommy who reads headlines?

Biomedical researcher married to md with a family full of mds. Are you the lay mommy? Perhaps this link will help: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/newborn-male-circumcision.aspx.

Another mom from a family full of doctors. DS is circumcised, we believed the research supported the benefits outweighed the risks (made the decision before the AAP said the same thing).

[Anonymous]

OP, to answer your question. When I had to make this decision I asked DH to talk to my much younger brother who was born in E. Europe but grew up here. He said he never had any problem and was surprised that this was our concern. He has great social skills though, always had plenty of friends and active dating life (he's 23 fwiw)