To Circumcise, or Not

Pros-

Circumcision reduces the amount of time caregivers must spend cleaning the baby's penis properly, and you won't have to teach him how to do it himself, when he gets old enough to bathe without assistance. In a culture that is phobic about child abuse, teaching a young male to care for his foreskin properly, could easily be misconstrued as molestation, especially if the child decided to tell people that someone has been teaching him how to touch himself "down there" ...

It eliminates problematic foreskin, and corrects problems that are caused by inadequate foreskin care at an early age.

Circumcision prevents yeast infections and other opportunistic infections from getting under the foreskin and irritating a man's penis. (But this can also be prevented by caring for the foreskin properly while the child is a newborn.)

Cons-

Botched circumcisions: Mutilated penises, castration, partial removal of the frenulum, turtle necks, crooked penises, and all manner of unusual circumstances. Sexologists see these kinds of problems all the time. Botched circumcisions are much more common than anyone realizes. Men that have been mutilated are less likely to seek a sexual partner. They don't want to think about what happened. And they most certainly don't want to go public and let the world to know.

Scar tissue can be super-sensitive resulting in premature ejaculation problems, or numb resulting in anorgasmia.

Hair that would have naturally been around the base of the penis becomes relocated on base of the shaft after circumcision, where it can irritate sex partners, unless shaved or removed.


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There are many men who's mothers cared for their penises properly when they were babies, and they are naturally circumcised. You cannot tell they have not been surgically circumcised, unless they deliberately pull the foreskin down over the gland. Many of them "wear it back" all the time, and women never even know they were not circumcised.

Every man should have a choice. BUT... intact males must be cared for properly, and taught how to take care of their penises properly AT AN EARLY AGE, in order to prevent phimosis and penis odor later on. This means infant care givers must be educated. Many intact adult males have never retracted their foreskin, and cleaned the gland. The odor is awful. This is just as bad a problem as a botched circumcision. Many times the only way to solve the problem is circumcision, if the issue is not addressed until the man is an adult.