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Circumcised for looks

Do you think boys should be circumcised for good looks?
Straylight · 31-35, F
I'm against unnessisary surgery on infants.
bravo55 · 70-79, M
In more recent times, some pseudosecular arguments have been adduced for male circumcision. It has been argued that the process is more hygienic for the male and thus more healthy for females in helping them avoid, for example, cervical cancer. Medicine has exploded these claims or else revealed them as problems which can just as easily be solved by a “loosening” of the foreskin. Full excision, originally ordered by god as the blood price for the promised future massacre of the Canaanites, is now exposed for what it is — a mutilation of a powerless infant with the aim of ruining its future sex life. The connection between religious barbarism and sexual repression could not be plainer than when it is “marked in the flesh.” Who can count the number of lives that have been made miserable in this way, especially since Christian doctors began to adopt ancient Jewish folklore in their hospitals? And who can bear to read the medical textbooks and histories which calmly record the number of boy babies who died from infection after their eighth day, or who suffered gross and unbearable dysfunction and disfigurement? The record of syphilitic and other infection, from rotting rabbinical teeth or other rabbinical indiscretions, or of clumsy slitting of the urethra and sometimes a vein, is simply dreadful. If religion and its arrogance were not involved, no healthy society would permit this primitive amputation, or allow any surgery to be practiced on the genitalia without the full and informed consent of the person concerned.

CH.
Sharethegra · 26-30, M
Do you think you should make a permanent decision about the body of someone else who cant object based on what you think looks good? Thats literally what you're asking
jaybird · 41-45, F
Yes, but also it is cleaner and healthier, in as much as boys (and some men!) aren`t as fussy as they should be with regard to cleaning and drying under the foreskin.
My grandfather served in the desert during the war and the problems (agony) some men had who hadn`t been circumcised and got infections on their penis due to not being able to keep it properly clean. And it does look nicer in my opinion.
bravo55 · 70-79, M
@jaybird No healthy society would permit this primitive amputation, or allow any surgery to be practiced on the genitalia without the full and informed consent of the person concerned. It has been argued that the process is more hygienic for the male and thus more healthy for females in helping them avoid, for example, cervical cancer. Medicine has exploded these claims or else revealed them as problems which can just as easily be solved.
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SW-User
Not for looks, but for health reasons.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
@SW-User are emergency circumcisions very common? My mom was a nurse and had to prepare kits. One of the ones in her book was for emergency circumcisions.
SW-User
@Tastyfrzz not sure how common they are, but I imagine it can be needed at times if there's a stricture..which could cut off blood supply, and cause problems.
Sharethegra · 26-30, M
@SW-User funny, theres whole medical reports done by world leading doctors saying theres no health benefits and its never done outside the US in non 3rd world countries for health reasons but suppose since youre a nurse you know better than everyone else
No. If they want to they should be allowed to make that choice as an adult.
SW-User
God no! Only for health reasons, if necessary
ozgirl512 · 26-30, F
Touchy subject!
bravo55 · 70-79, M
@ozgirl512 Too right!
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malizz · 70-79, M
No, best to leave as nature intended.
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
Yes it does look better
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Sharethegra · 26-30, M
@nadine exactly leave his to him, not you
UpForItNow · 22-25, F
@nadine If I was female I would fine it more pleasing to look at, touch and taste.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
There is another thing to consider. What one might think "looks good" is based upon predjudices that have been implanted in your mind by subtle images and thoughts on the subject.
ArtieKat · M
I must have been a very good looking baby ;-)
Lanyx · 41-45, M
Lanyx · 41-45, M

 
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