My first son was and I regretted it. I have several younger sons and they were not. They are all in their late teens/early 20's now and none of them have had any problems or have voiced any concerns to me. Both the circ'ed and uncirc'ed have done high school sports and there have been no "locker room issues" that you always read/hear about.

I believe current rate in the US is close 50/50.

So while boomer parents cannot fathom choosing not to circumcise, and most of the children were circumcised, the US is a different place now. Lots of people are making more educated choses about healthcare vs the old thinking of "it looks funny/gross" if you don't circumcise. Plus more immigration. The 1970s-90s practice norms are dying. So while you personally may think it looks weird or girls won't like it, or some of the other dumb reasons since it was the norm in your generation- that will not the experience and opinions of the next generation of teens that are now young children.

I mean the whole thing really is bizarre. I mean if you think about it in ancient times, before soap it kid of makes sense until you consider that while they didn’t have soap, they also didn’t have scalpels or soap. So, like who was the first guy who said “let’s try cutting this?” And who was the first guy who was like “sure, use my penis” and then others were like “ohhh, sign me up too!”. Men 🤦‍♀️

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Anonymous wrote:I am a surgeon. In med school when I saw the procedure being done, I vowed I not only never, ever do that to my boys, not participate in it indirectly.

Circumcision is male genital mutilation. It is interesting that we in the US criticize other cultures for female genital mutilation and we do it ourselves to our boys.

The research has not played out to show a benefit to doing this at a population level. If a man engages in high risk sexual behaviors where the procedure might be beneficial, he could get the procedure himself at his own decision. I will support my sons in this regard if needed.

Liar. Study after international study shows substantial benefit from being circumcised. The CDC was forced by the religious right to claim there was no benefit while at the same time presenting a lot of evidence that circumcising improves quality of life. Why make your adolescent child have the procedure painfully when it could have been done when he was an infant? (A real surgeon would not have been disgusted by a very minor procedure.)

I thought religious ppl would want the CDC to claim there were benefits??

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Anonymous wrote:I was a military attorney, and I am still haunted by the 19 year old who had the unit medic "circumcise" him while deployed overseas because he was embarrassed (and deployed). The kid had to be MEDEVACed, and we disciplined the person who did the "cutting." Although the person who did it was only minimally in trouble as he did it on the request of the 19 year old. I am not a troll. My son, born after this, is circumcised.

I don’t get it

A 19 year old kid wanted to be circumcised so badly he allowed his buddy to try to do the procedure.

This has got to be a troll. No medic would do this.

Did not circumcise my son. At the age of four he had to have surgery because of an issue. so he was circumcised at the age of four. He was not a happy camper.

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Anonymous wrote:Not American and never considered circumcising my boys.

Same. I think that a lot of Americans don't realize how out of the norm this practice is compared with other countries.

And I think people who say *this* don’t realize they’re only comparing the US to one other region. You mean Europe, right? You think you sound so worldly and well-traveled but really you’re showing your own narrow cultural experience.

My son is 19 yr old and I haven't thought about it, it is not something that has ever come up in conversation or that our son has ever commented on to us.

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Anonymous wrote:Not American and never considered circumcising my boys.

Same. I think that a lot of Americans don't realize how out of the norm this practice is compared with other countries.

Why would this matter to us?

It might help to, you know, step outside of yourself and get out from behind the teeny tiny lens so many Americans see the world through.

I'm not the PP you quoted, but still--why would THIS matter to us (Americans?)
I've traveled a lot and had many amazing cultural experiences on almost every continent but examining local penises was not one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Not American and never considered circumcising my boys.

Same. I think that a lot of Americans don't realize how out of the norm this practice is compared with other countries.

Why would this matter to us?

It might help to, you know, step outside of yourself and get out from behind the teeny tiny lens so many Americans see the world through.

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Anonymous wrote:Not American and never considered circumcising my boys.

Same. I think that a lot of Americans don't realize how out of the norm this practice is compared with other countries.

Why would this matter to us?

Mom of 4 adult boys, all circumcised. It once came up in conversation a couple of years ago during summer vacation. All are happy.

Anonymous wrote:I am a surgeon. In med school when I saw the procedure being done, I vowed I not only never, ever do that to my boys, not participate in it indirectly.

Circumcision is male genital mutilation. It is interesting that we in the US criticize other cultures for female genital mutilation and we do it ourselves to our boys.

The research has not played out to show a benefit to doing this at a population level. If a man engages in high risk sexual behaviors where the procedure might be beneficial, he could get the procedure himself at his own decision. I will support my sons in this regard if needed.

Liar. Study after international study shows substantial benefit from being circumcised. The CDC was forced by the religious right to claim there was no benefit while at the same time presenting a lot of evidence that circumcising improves quality of life. Why make your adolescent child have the procedure painfully when it could have been done when he was an infant? (A real surgeon would not have been disgusted by a very minor procedure.)

Circumcised our son. He is 21 now. Good with our decision.

Anonymous wrote:Not American and never considered circumcising my boys.

Same. I think that a lot of Americans don't realize how out of the norm this practice is compared with other countries.