I was born in 1986. My parents decided to leave me intact.
All of my friends that were born here that I know of are intact too, except my Turkish and Korean friends- all born from mid 1980s onwards.
Surprising though how many medical doctors in Victoria advocate circumcision today behind closed doors-Over the last few years i've had more then a few offer to organise the procedure or referral for one when they have found out my status and my few problems i've had with it infrequently over the years; even when the reason for being at the Doc's had nothing to do with my privates. It seems that more and more though Circumcision talk keeps popping up these days.
Take for example this story about what happened to a friend of mine's young son. He had started to see a new paediatrician a few months back and the Circumcision argument came up- problem is my friend didn't get the time to argue...
You see he said the paediatrician told his wife that that she should have their son circ'd. What you should know about the wife you see, is that she is a bit on the bossy side and likes to make all the decisions. Turns out the wife agreed with the Paediatrician on Circumcised being better (whilst it turns out my friend doesn't and is happy being intact). My friend only found out about all this when things were made clear to him recently.
I remember him saying how horrified he was when, a few weeks back, he came home from a business trip from overseas having been away for a couple of weeks. To cut a long story short, that first night back he was helping his son get ready for bed when his wife's preference was made all too apparent to him. She had gone ahead and had their son circumcised whilst he was away as she knew and I quote "he'd overreact over such a silly flap of skin".
My friend was really angry when he found out what had happened to his son. He said he never knew she was in favour of Circumcision as it had never come up as an issue. He blames the paediatrician, but the biggest shocker (and even I was a floored) was when the wife said she'd wish he'd "hurry up and get the chop as she was getting fed up of his dirty droopy foreskin."
Poor guy, I didn't know what to say to the fella. Sad part is, he said he is thinking about getting it done now solely because he feels sorry for his poor son. He said he thought it best for his son to match his Dad (talk about a role reversal) I think he feels like it is the responsible thing to do now so his son doesn't feel different. Personally, I think he should dump the bitchy wife and count his losses before things gets worse, ahem. :frown1:
I definitely think that there is a resurgence going on in Australia. It seems like this talk about the subject in the media is becoming more and more frequent. I guess it brings it back into the public mindset, or perhaps the push is from Doctors in this global financial crisis to make a quick buck? Who knows.
Personally I think it should be left up to the guy involved when he's old enough to know his junk. If he has problems, then he can get it done later if needs be. Then it can avoid a lot of those horrible 'family' issues.
Zee.