# Circumcision. Is it medically necessary or "just for looks". **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048 "2001-06-25T04:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/41 "2001-06-28T14:47:28Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d like to move that we, non-Banned Dopers, henceforth refer to him as, “He Who Must Not Be Named,” like Lord Voldemort? > > You may shorten this, for your convenience, to HWMNBN. We already have He Who Must Not Be Named, and as I have already invoked the name of JDT, I will leave it for some other doper to reveal just who that was. I heard the critical thread was deleted in the board switchover anyway. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/42 "2001-06-28T15:11:49Z")
hmm, to add my bit FWIW. i had an ex boyf who was circumcised at the age of 15 because he found that sex was too painful. and BOY did he have a chip on his shoulder about it. very bitter and twisted altogether. so i’d say he preferred having a foreskin. personally, no, it makes no difference to me RE sex. slightly different, ahem, techniques when doing other things though. i’d rather not circumcise any putative son of mine, but i’d say his father would probably have the last word. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/43 "2001-06-28T16:11:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saepiroth \* > \*\*bwahahaha! > > the planets are aligned, and the pentagram is readied! > > now the demon will be summoned! > > [verbiage related to HWMNBN excised] > > BWAHAHHAHA!!! it shall return and destroy you all!.. > > oh wait. he says he’s on the john. he won’t be here to torment us again after all. > \*\* :::sniff, sniff::: I smell sulfur. Fire and brimstone can’t be that far behind. Quick! Reverse the incantation! Doesn’t matter if he says he’s on the john. HWMNBN has been known to be less than reliable in the past. Check all of your local hospitals! Be on the lookout for a man stalking the hallways of nurseries, with Tug-Ahoys[sup]TM[/sup] dangling from his belt. If you see him, do not attempt to apprehend him directly. Contact security and let the professionals restrain him until the proper incantation can be invoked to send him back to the depths of Satan’s latrine. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/44 "2001-06-28T22:51:33Z")
hey, that sulfur isn’t from the fire and brimstone, it’s from the spicy food. anyway, he… ow!!! he got off the can, and used one of those tugahoy things on my leg… damn, the skin from my knee is scraping the ground. what a bastard. hey! lets summon the _other_ peni[sub](no pun intended)[/sub]ultimate evil! and let them duke it out! now, i assume that the other person is a banned fellow… and, since i’ve only seen one other banned person besides {HWMNBN}, than the other must be… **SATAN**! of course, there is no way in hell i am saying THAT three times. the namesake might show up at my house, and he always eats all the fritos when he comes over… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/45 "2001-06-29T00:31:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manda JO \* > The list goes on and on. Go get a bag of popcorn and do a web search for “Jack Dean Tyler.” Start at the oldest thread and work your way forward. It’s amusing as hell. NOOOOOO! Not that . . . thing! I had just started to forget about that period in board history, about emailing mods to see what more he had to do . . . the sleepless nights, the excruciating detail about so many members’ . . . well, you know. Oh, by the way. You forgot that “human beings are not like cars; they are all exactly the same.” That was my sig for a time. Wishbone, buddy, do a search in GD for “circumcision” and “Jack Dean Tyler”. The madness stopped last year a bit before Christmas, so you’ll want to do an “any date” search. Uck. May you learn enough to make you wish you’d never asked;) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/46 "2001-06-29T10:07:14Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Harbour Lights \* When my son was born, the doctor asked me if I was circumcised, and if I wanted to have my son circumcised. I asked if there was any specific reason why it should be done. His answer was because most fathers like their sons to match. Saves answering awkward questions. [QUOTE] That has GOT to be the all-time jack-stupidist head-furthest-up-the-butt reason to have a baby circumcized. So him and daddy _ **MATCH???** _ :eek: What is this, the penis as a fashion statement? If daddy’s a brunette and the kid’s a blonde do you dye junior’s hair to match to avoid “awkward questions?” :rolleyes: Seems to me there’s already some difference in appearance between a small boy’s penis and an adult penis, is it awkward to explain _that?_. By the time junior is old enough that his equipment is turning into the adult version he’s going to be old enough to understand circumcism, and since I don’t know of any men who enjoy the idea of having bits of their equipment snipped off, he might be just as happy _not_ to match daddy. ---
**Author:** ![jharding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jharding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharding)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/47 "2001-06-29T15:03:38Z")
Oh that JDT, how droll, what a card. As a relative newbie to this board, I was not privy to the original JDT go-around re: circumcision. So my thanks to **Manda Jo** and others who referenced that thread. I have to say I haven’t had such a good laugh in quite some time. On those frequent occasions where I doubt my wordly wisdom and intelligence, I will henceforth refer to the now-notorious JDT thread and reaffirm that “Lo, I am not the most ignorant and mentally impaired person on the planet.” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/48 "2001-06-29T15:42:03Z")
My opinion: “Just for Looks”. ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/49 "2001-06-29T20:20:48Z")
Now all I really worry about is the Lorena Bobbit types…I have more to lose. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/50 "2001-06-30T05:24:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I HEARD, and I don’t remember WHERE, and I have no idea if it’s true or not, that supposedly there is a way to regain the foreskin…some special device or something, allows it to grow back… > > I Think it’s bullshit…something about a device that pulls the skin towards the tip, and it gradually forms a new foreskin? > \*\* Another use for **DUCT TAPE!** ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/51 "2001-06-30T19:53:28Z")
hey, you never told me if i was right or wrong! just tell me if my detective work was correct. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048/52 "2001-06-30T20:59:42Z")
I heard it was serious…some procedure thing the doctor does…I’ll see what I can find. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circumcision-is-it-medically-necessary-or-just-for-looks/70048.md?page=2)