# OK, seriously.  Circumcision: yea or nay?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 19, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-seriously-circumcision-yea-or-nay/514265 "2009-10-19T01:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-seriously-circumcision-yea-or-nay/514265/81 "2009-10-22T15:10:05Z")

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You should NEVER, EVER!! circumcise somebody else!!!

On the other hand, if you are over 18 and you want to have it done to yourself, then go for it.

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**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-seriously-circumcision-yea-or-nay/514265/82 "2009-10-22T15:54:31Z")

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> [@Sebastienne](#):
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> Hmm, how to put it into words what makes uncut more pleasurable.

Without getting graphic… it does. I like NajaHusband’s factory-original equipment juuuuuuuuuuust fine. If he got hit by a bus and I had to pick a new partner I wouldn’t do it based on the state of their accouterments, but I would have a moment of quiet, internal disappointment about it upon discovery. I have often joked about calling his mom up and saying “thanks”. He doesn’t know why they didn’t cut him (they never talked about it) but he assumes it was just a rational “no compelling reason to do it” sort of thing as they are atheists and aren’t the types to do something “just because”.

I enjoy his foreskin very much, so does he, and we won’t deny our theoretical sons or their future partners the pleasures of normally-functioning body parts based on a social whim. If they get all grown-up like and decide they want body modifications like tattoos, piercings, or a circumcision, they’re more than welcome to make those decisions for themselves regarding their own bodies. I simply don’t think it’s my right to do, absent overwhelmingly compelling medical evidence which, suffice it to say, there is not.

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**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-seriously-circumcision-yea-or-nay/514265/83 "2009-10-22T22:52:19Z")

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I thought I wanted to get my boy cut - but made the mistake of doing some research on the internet. About 20 seconds into what was actually not that biased a site, I burst into tears and resolved that there was absolutely no way I could do that to my boy.  
What can I say? I’m a big wuss.  
However, I had said it was up to Dad - and Dad wanted to. Or so I thought. Turned out he didn’t care. Whew.

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