[Thor]

I don't understand why we can't just let those boys decide themselves when they are older. The WHO report is about aids in africa where its rare to see condom use and they argued correctly that any help to slow the spread of aids is a benefit. Not sure how that helps a 1st world parent feel like its a pro for circ.

For that 1 study that gets quoted a lot btw by parents supporting this unnecessary procedure there is a plethora of studies suggesting its unnecessary, has serious risks albeit low, and has potential complications to how a child grows to handle pain because of the possible early affect on the nervous system this early painful procedure can put on the infant.

We in the west are furious to hear about little baby girls being circumcized in other countries, yet when it comes to boys people make jokes like its no big deal, and not to belittle parents but very few of them do much of any research before making this decision, its just a matter of tradition, religion in the vast majority of cases.

Of course when asked in surveys parents will not answer honestly and say they did it for health/hygiene issues. Like I've said before people find excuses after the fact to feel more justified about having done the procedure rather than admit it may have been an unnecessary thing to begin with.

I'm not calling you parents out or suggesting your bad people, just that its been such a normal thing for so many family's for so long its not something they think much about. Which is slowly changing, your 2 boys will likely not have this done to their own children unless there is religious reasons to do so.

And religious reasons is going away slowly too, if anyone bothered to read the history of the silly reason for this covenant.