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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there's lots of room for reasonable people to disagree on this issue.  I was swayed by the reduced incidence of penile cancer and STD's, but as many have pointed out, an educated person in a first world country doesn't generally rely on a circumcision as protection against STD's, and Gardasil will probably be a preventative against penile cancer.

I've also had doctors tell me that circumsized boys have a reduced incidence of UTI's.

Interestingly, I thought that the best way to research this would be to find a study of men who had circumcisions done as adults.  There is such a study, but these men were mostly doing the procedure to treat condyloma, a congenital conidiotn in which the foreskin is shortened and causes pain.  These test subjects were therefore so relieved to be getting a circumcision, that their opinions on life before and after didn't seem quite relevant to the average guy.[/quote]

Last time I looked, a condyloma was a genital wart.........[/quote]

Sorry, apparently, I meant phimosis.

In general, I think the costs and benefits of circumcision are small enough that there is room for people to make very different, but thoughtful decisions.

After all, most men in the US born between 1950 and 1980 are circumsized, and I've never had a single one say to me "Oh, sex, you kno I can take or leave it.  I can barely feel it."[/quote]

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