[Coach]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Perhaps something like this would prompt many parents to think it is a good idea:

While I'm sure painful and uncomfortable for stang, it's a small percentage of people that have medical issues that require a circumcision. Much smaller than many forms of medical issue or injury. Should we take everyone's appendix out at birth? Arguably much more reasonable. There are countless ailments that could befall the body that require painful and potentially life-altering surgeries. How many of them involve the removal of a piece of a child's body? To my knowledge, only life-threatening ones.

All three of my boys are adopted, and came intact. My wife and I never gave the question much consideration, but as a circumcised man with a healthy and fulfilling sex life I occasionally wonder about whether or not this was the right decision. Having no memory of my own foreskin, I was completely lost when it came to teaching my kids about penile hygiene. I told them to keep it clean with no real insight about procedure beyond my own experience. At this point my kids are approaching adulthood and pretty much on there own to monitor their own penile health.

Isn't this something you could have easily researched?

Originally Posted by Oil Stain

I don't think a skin flap is equatable to a toe.

I personally feel circumcised penises are more aesthetically pleasing, but I'm probably biased because I have one.

I personally feel that women with smaller breasts and dark hair are more aesthetically pleasing. I would never advocate that they all be made to be that way.

It seems a little odd to me that most of the opposition to circumcision in this thread appears to be coming from people that aren't circumcised.

Really? You find that odd?

If men that are circumcised are completely happy with it, why the outrage?

Well try having every piece of media or social interaction involving this subject tends to lean towards uncut being anywhere from slightly abnormal, not as good, to all out gross, despite it being our natural state of being. And despite pretty much all anecdotal evidence being to the contrary with some women not even noticing after multiple sexual encounters, because when it's up it all looks pretty much the same. Then you might understand why we are, at best, a little bit confused about North America's overall stance on this.