Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both the CDC and the WHO recommend circumcision to help reduce the spread of STDs. I know everyone thinks their children will be virgins forever, but they won't, and neither will their partners.

(As a side note, these studies only apply to male/female vaginal intercourse.)

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/

These studies also were done in a place where condoms are culturally discouraged.

NP: so? Do you think everyone always practices safe sex? I’m with the first PP.

No, but they practice it WAY more in developed countries than where the study was done. That wildly affects the % benefit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both the CDC and the WHO recommend circumcision to help reduce the spread of STDs. I know everyone thinks their children will be virgins forever, but they won't, and neither will their partners.

(As a side note, these studies only apply to male/female vaginal intercourse.)

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/

These studies also were done in a place where condoms are culturally discouraged.

NP: so? Do you think everyone always practices safe sex? I’m with the first PP.

Anonymous wrote:Both the CDC and the WHO recommend circumcision to help reduce the spread of STDs. I know everyone thinks their children will be virgins forever, but they won't, and neither will their partners.

(As a side note, these studies only apply to male/female vaginal intercourse.)

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/

These studies also were done in a place where condoms are culturally discouraged.

Both the CDC and the WHO recommend circumcision to help reduce the spread of STDs. I know everyone thinks their children will be virgins forever, but they won't, and neither will their partners.

(As a side note, these studies only apply to male/female vaginal intercourse.)

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no way it doesn't reduce pleasure, but unfortunately there's no way to study it.

-a man

I've heard theories that it actually increases pleasure, but I wouldn't know because I don't have a penis.

NEVER heard this and can't imagine how this would be so.

Pp

Anonymous wrote:There's no way it doesn't reduce pleasure, but unfortunately there's no way to study it.

-a man

I've heard theories that it actually increases pleasure, but I wouldn't know because I don't have a penis.

There's no way it doesn't reduce pleasure, but unfortunately there's no way to study it.

-a man

I let my husband decide and he chose to do it (he found the std studies compelling). I also know 2 men who had to be circumcised as teenagers due to medical problems, so that factored in as well.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Circumcision greatly reduces the risk of acquiring an STD later in life. There are also other ways to greatly reduce the risk of acquiring an STD but his mother isn't going to be in the room when he is deciding whether or not to use a condom. For this reason, my boys are circumcised. (Believe it or not, circumcised men have had healthy and successful sexual relationships for thousands of years.

There is also a small risk that the child will need to be circumcised later in life for medical reasons but the risk is small so it's understandably not a compelling reason.

It’s about the same rates as female circumcision. Are you or your daughters circumcised?

Female circumcision is equivalent to full castration for a man. For sure, if some parents were choosing to have their boys castrated, it would be illegal. Nobody cares about the foreskin. It doesn't affect sexual performance or reduce pleasure during intercourse.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Circumcision greatly reduces the risk of acquiring an STD later in life. There are also other ways to greatly reduce the risk of acquiring an STD but his mother isn't going to be in the room when he is deciding whether or not to use a condom. For this reason, my boys are circumcised. (Believe it or not, circumcised men have had healthy and successful sexual relationships for thousands of years.

There is also a small risk that the child will need to be circumcised later in life for medical reasons but the risk is small so it's understandably not a compelling reason.

It’s about the same rates as female circumcision. Are you or your daughters circumcised?

There is no such thing as female circumcision because women don't have a foreskin on their penis. Female genital mutilation involves removing the clitoris so women cannot feel pleasure during intercourse. It's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING. It also has no effect on the risk of acquiring STDs like circumcision does on a man.

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20141202/cdc-endorses-circumcision-for-health-reasons#1

"CDC Endorses Circumcision for Health Reasons"
"Clinical trials, many done in sub-Saharan Africa, have demonstrated that circumcision reduces HIV infection risk by 50 percent to 60 percent, the CDC guidelines note. The procedure also reduces by 30 percent the risk of contracting herpes and human papilloma virus (HPV), two pathogens believed to cause cancer of the penis."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have very close friends who do not know the status of my boys' penises. It is their business, not my friends. Ugh. Have some respect for them.

You sound uptight.

No, I sound like someone who has older sons as well as younger ones and has seen how oversharing parents hurt their teens and tweens. Honestly do you think your teen boys want you discussing them that way? But no matter about their feelings, right?

We are talking about infants, not teens. It's just a penis. Half the world has one. You're making a huge deal about this.

-a dad, with a penis

Anonymous wrote:Circumcision greatly reduces the risk of acquiring an STD later in life. There are also other ways to greatly reduce the risk of acquiring an STD but his mother isn't going to be in the room when he is deciding whether or not to use a condom. For this reason, my boys are circumcised. (Believe it or not, circumcised men have had healthy and successful sexual relationships for thousands of years.

There is also a small risk that the child will need to be circumcised later in life for medical reasons but the risk is small so it's understandably not a compelling reason.

It’s about the same rates as female circumcision. Are you or your daughters circumcised?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have very close friends who do not know the status of my boys' penises. It is their business, not my friends. Ugh. Have some respect for them.

You sound uptight.

No, I sound like someone who has older sons as well as younger ones and has seen how oversharing parents hurt their teens and tweens. Honestly do you think your teen boys want you discussing them that way? But no matter about their feelings, right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:58% circumcision rate in the us in 2010.

So nearly a decade ago, it was barely the norm.

That's only Vaud insurance does t cover it. People in the US are poor, so they aren't going to waste $400 or whatever it is on circumcision.

It has been 10 years since my youngest, but insurance absolutely covered it. It might be a different story if it's done after they leave the hospital.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:58% circumcision rate in the us in 2010.

So nearly a decade ago, it was barely the norm.

That's only Vaud insurance does t cover it. People in the US are poor, so they aren't going to waste $400 or whatever it is on circumcision.

Insurance covers it because the aap says insurance should.
Why don't brits, Europeans, aussies, and kiwis do it?