Court stops circumcision.

Aye,as with any surgical procedure there will always be risks. But are there any benefits to it? I'm due to attend my like 20th circumcision party for my friends little cousin. In some cultures it's a right of passage

Aye,as with any surgical procedure there will always be risks. But are there any benefits to it?

I'm due to attend my like 20th circumcision party for my friends little cousin. In some cultures it's a right of passage

Removing the foreskin exposes the glans and reduces sensitivity frenulum or no.

I can't remember which (whether St Augustine or Maimonides, one of those) but one of the religious figures from late antiquity or the Middle Ages said very clearly that one of the most important justifications for circumcision is to deter masturbation.

It doesn't prevent someone from masturbating but it makes it harder, particularly back when they didn't have lube.

Circumcision clearly reduces pleasure and sensitivity, and in the West the STD justifications are quite marginal (in Africa where they have 50% HIV rates in some places.. maybe. But in the West, not justifiable or necessary)

Y'all acting like this is to do with only culture and religion. Don't most babies get circumcised in America when they are born? Surely,if it was soooooo dangerous they would've stopped doing it in hospitals.

Aye,as with any surgical procedure there will always be risks. But are there any benefits to it? I'm due to attend my like 20th circumcision party for my friends little cousin. In some cultures it's a right of passage

they only keep doing it in hospitals because it makes the private hospitals a lot of money. how can you be so daft? you're justifying this for truly appalling and ignorant reasons. child circumcisions without medical necessity are truly abusive and only justified based on the fallacy of tradition only, and the fact that you're just brushing that fact aside is just disgusting in my opinion. how can you even say this given the fact that we don't allow this for girls? my perspective is that you are a creation of your culture and not your own thinking.

Y'all acting like this is to do with only culture and religion. Don't most babies get circumcised in America when they are born? Surely,if it was soooooo dangerous they would've stopped doing it in hospitals.

Aye,as with any surgical procedure there will always be risks. But are there any benefits to it? I'm due to attend my like 20th circumcision party for my friends little cousin. In some cultures it's a right of passage

the reason why the USA in particular circumcises to the extent that it does was because the myth that masturbation caused illnesses caught on so well in the 1800s. and yes, it goes without saying that circumcisions would cause a loss of sexual sensitivity when it is known that the foreskin actually forms harder skin as a protective/adaptive mechanism to deal with the fact that it is constantly being exposed when it shouldn't be. and exactly, I think it's crazy to circumcise *children* for reasons concerning STDs when children aren't having sex. if they're going to grow up to not wear a condom then that's not something that is foreseeable at all in the west, so if a parent thinks "my son's going to grow up as a man-whore" then that's ridiculous.

It's not dangerous (although there are cases of babies dying from circumcision complications).

Aww, you seem to be getting really upset Chill, blud. This is a friendly discussion

I wasn't justifying it and I'm pretty sure I've made it clear it's not just a cultural or religious thing,that doesn't mean I'm justifying it.

Female and male circumcision are two separate things. I have two different cultures,and am pretty westernised and don't even follow any culture as such . Calm down dear

In most cases, it is. The conditions for which circumcision is medically necessary are exceedingly rare. America's continuing obsession with circumcision is to do with it being a billion-dollar industry and fathers not wanting their sons to be dissimilar to them. (And, if you do a little bit of research on this, you'd know that it has its origins in religious objections to masturbation.)



In some cultures female genital mutilation is also a right of passage. Should that also be allowed and have parties held in its honour?

Y'all acting like this is to do with only culture and religion. Don't most babies get circumcised in America when they are born? Surely,if it was soooooo dangerous they would've stopped doing it in hospitals.

In some cultures female genital mutilation is also a right of passage. Should that also be allowed and have parties held in its honour?

Precisely. Well said.

And as I pointed out above, in one year that was studied there were 177 baby deaths caused by circumcision. That makes it a leading cause of neonatal death, by comparison 44 died from suffocation, 8 in automobile accidents and 115 from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (which is considered to be such a risk that major funds have gone into research and into educating parents on how to avoid it). And yet circumcision which appears to cause more deaths is not considered to be worthy of working to prevent these deaths by... not circumcising.

That STD justification won't help someone if they died from their circumcision

Slogans, like "barbarity" and "mutilation", are not arguments

That STD justification won't help someone if they died from their circumcision