Why are Americans obsessed with getting their kids circumcised?

How is it not cruel? You are removing a body part that has a lot of nerve endings. Its an irreversible operation, you are denying the person the right to remain intact, which they may regret when they are older.

Also it is not disgusting or cruel. I am not traumatized from the experience. I dont remember it at all.

My male cousins have been circumcised, as have my uncles, I think... and my family are neither Jewish nor American.
According to my mum it just makes things 'cleaner'.
Common practice for males in our culture, I think!

watched a program on this

the parents have to pay a tax on this or somethin when the doctor does the snip

earns the american goverment millions if not billions

so to brake it down the americans get part of their penis mutilated, to provide a nice little income for the american government

You'd be perfectly happy if they cut off both your lil toes? you wouldnt remember it and it wouldnt mae much difference...

Billions of humans have suvived without this surgery. It really is totally unnessesary. All of the 'benefits' can be gained through other, non-permenant and non-irreversable methods.

I was talking to an American on MSN, and god knows how we got onto it, but I mentioned that kids in the UK (and I'm guessing Europe as a whole) don't get circumsised, and the practice is only associated with Jews, and it is pretty much unheard of for any other group to be circumsised.

An American friend once told me:

"My child will be circumcised. There may or may not be health benefits. There may or may not be sexual pleasure benefits or sexual health benefits. All I know is my child will experience his worst pain in life at a time he cannot remember, and that's good enough for me"

Huh, there are real benefits to circumcision...

No there are not.

There is one definite benefit.

If you're circumcised as a baby, then when you're older you're not going to have the risk of getting circumcised for medical reasons, and therefore never really experience the pain.

No there are not.

Used to be about cleaning, and prevent HIV. then they found out it's does **** all for the former. It's was then about status.

As for cleaner, that's a load of ****. forskin is there for a purpose just like eyelashes are. Dumbos

Would you compare getting your ear pierced to having a digit cut off? Of course not, yet there is still that hole in the ear that will not grow back. Circumcision is as much mutilation as getting a pierced ear.