You need an hour with me.
I’ve given up on the OP. However, I do have a bone to pick with the AAP studies reference of penile cancer. The rates of penile cancer are so low that circumcision will have no material bearing one way or the other.
My real issue with circumcision is that there is a lot of social/religious reasons to justify it. The AAP had the good sense to make it clear that it should be up,to the parents. My son is not nor am I. Had my parents decided to circumcise me then I likely would have been pro circumcision. My advice to the OP is to move on and don’t have the procedure performed on your own kids.
WTF? Who gets to decide to chop another’s body parts off?
You are seriously deluded and in need of professional help.
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Holy projection, Batman!
Awww… is that the best you can do?
I have a four year old son who makes better arguments than that.
Whiner.
The whole thing can be avoided by simply labeling this MGM. Why would you do that? Ok, if you had a good reason… but you don’t.
So- your standard of ethics is the law? Good luck in life, Battle Pope!
I think you need a vacation.
How about here?
And yet, whenever one of these threads starts the usual corps of foreskin-obsessed cock cutters jumps in and defends the practice like it’s central to their very being.
Interesting.
Well no, I just got back from vacation and it was sublime. Fie on your penis park!
But you’d fit right in there.
My relationship with my own mother didn’t make it past family aggravated assault, so your accusation is moot. I think this wraps up the Drunky Smurf objections, unless he has some more.
Was this an actual assault, or, along the lines of ‘circimcusion = sexualt assault’ was it just a hug?
Either way the OP is such a prime example of being disconnected from reality that its really not worth continuing.
I believe there are doctors out there who do “foreskin restoration”, if you’re that desparate.
Exactly.
Circumcised or not is not an issue one way or the other for males.
If you think STDs are restricted to male/female intercourse then the discussion is over. I suspect you know better.
Interestingly they could make money removing men’s nipples. I wonder why, if their motivation is to make money on unnecessary procedures as you suggested earlier, they don’t push for it?
I cited the study above which specifically said they dealt with the epidemiology of circumcision in the US in their study.
Bottom line is there are health benefits to circumcision. Not dramatic but real. Further, the procedure is safe and does not impact males’ ability to function sexually in any way shape or form (not counting how you may mess yourself up in your own head but that is a mental problem in need of a therapist).
The few who are bent out of shape about it need psychological help. Circumcision is far from what is ailing them. They are messed in the head and need professional help. The vast majority of men who have been circumcised have dicks that work fine. They get hard-ons. They can screw people in the literal sense. They have no loss of sensation and enjoy getting laid same as non-circumcised men.
In short…nothing is different for them beyond a bit of aesthetics and that is wholly subjective.
Circumcised or not…who cares? Either way you are fine.
The problem, I think, is that we are told that we are victims and that we should feel violated. And if we don’t feel that way, then we’re just not seeing the whole issue clearly. It’s kind of natural to feel insulted in that case, so we retaliate.
There are health benefits to not-circumcision- body parts have a function, who’da thunk it? And I would not categorize a procedure which results in an unnecessary amputation as ‘safe’ when that is literally and obviously the opposite.
The AIDS statistics strike me as an excuse. I don’t like putting words in other people’s mouths/assigning them motives, but as has been pointed out, considering a person can wear a condom to prevent AIDS, not to mention practice basic hygiene, why insist on the radical step of healthy-infant amputation? Seems there are a lot of assumptions built into that decision, no? And, have you come up with another example where we amputate as disease prevention?
Do you have any psych credentials? Because I call bullshit on your diagnosis. The psychological issue at work in this thread is the weird blind spot this issue occupies in our culture which I simply point out.
Cite that my complaint is an issue of aesthetics?
I’d agree I’m ‘fine’, but I don’t think that really justifies amputative surgery, especially considering you claim a person is ‘fine either way’. Wouldn’t you agree “fine either way” is a prime ur-example of a reason Not to perform surgery? Are you unaware of the absurdity of your defense?
I hope after the DNC convention I’ll have the time to launch the final thread outside the pit where we can examine the legal reasons why routine circumcision ought to stop. I probably ought to apologize in advance for not having the time to respond to every last poster in that thread, but I’ll try.
You’ve read, “The Merchant of Venice”, right? While we’re in the pit, Whack-a-Mole, and considering your interest in psychoanalysis, let’s talk about your mother…
Ode to the Sandusky Child Mutilation Center, “Where Sending You Home With 99% of Your Son is Our Passion!” [sup]tm[/sup]
Shall I rate your mother 'gainst Shylock the Jew?
Not that his jewishness lends him dishonor
besides in the eyes of his heartless tormentors,
who kick him, and rob him, and call him a dog.
They nightly imprison his kind in the Geto.
The fury of Shylock swells. He’s enraged!
The result it turns out is cruel lending terms staged:
“You will pay back promptly the loan you request,
Or I’ll carve a pound of your flesh from your breast!”
Circumstance snags his worst foe in his trap.
At this point old Shylock won’t take any yap.
His friends offer double of what the guy owes,
but furious Shylock is not to be moved.
They desperately offer sextuple the sum, but
a man this oppressed wants but see vengeance be done.
Tell me what grievance your mother fulfilled-
While with not sin nor symptom your new form was filled?
What was her motive (I take, absent a creed),
that caused her permitting this terrible deed?
Was she oppressed? Beat up with a stick?
No, for no reason she punished your dick.
'Twas just a suggestion: “Without a prescription,
We’ll chop your son’s privates to match this description.”
With unfurrowed brow and with nary a question
She vapidly authorized your circumcision.
Now, even a sow needs a ring in its snout
which one must pull smartly to lead it about.
So as object of measure, poor Shylock’s too big
since your mom’s credulity’s worse than a pig’s!
Are you also branded? Your sister’s feet bound?
An altar to Mammon in her house be found?
No wait! Don’t tell me! There I want not go
For I haven’t the time for two threads here you know.
You’re ‘fine’, really? Apart from the fact that you spend an inordinate amount of time mourning the loss of ‘half’ your dick, you also blame circumcision for all the problems in your relationship:
These are not the words of someone who is ‘fine’. These are the words of someone who genuinely needs the help of a trained therapist. Whack-a-Mole is right, you’re just using this imagined trauma as a scapegoat for some apparently serious psychological issues. What if you were uncircumcised and still couldn’t get it up for your girlfriend? What if you still undermined your relationship because of your personal problems? Plenty of uncirced men have difficulty with relationships and marriages too - what do you think they blame it on?
And why is only your mother to blame for this? Is dad innocent in all these cases of imaginary sexual assault? Sounds to me like someone has more of a mommy problem than a penis problem.
I don’t really have a horse in this race, but writing stuff like this doesn’t do a whole lot to support your “I’m totally sane and well-adjusted” argument.