Doco on why circumcision is wrong!

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Hey Phil. I asked my mom about it too a few years ago when I first met an uncut guy. Had nothing to do with this ongoing debate, mind you. I was in my thirties and never met an uncut guy until I traveled more throughout Europe.

My mom didn't actually have a reason. She just said that's what was done back in the mid 50s. Neither she nor my dad were asked - it just happened. Am I angry or hold a grudge? No way! I can't hold them accountable for the beliefs of the day. The information then was not as readily available as it is today. Doctors BELIEVED it was better and that's what they passed on to their patients. Moreover, I really believe that doctors thought that it was the right thing to do for various reasons. Growing up NO ONE was uncut. Every friend, classmates, family member was cut. Hell, my dad and his twin brother were born at home and taken days later to the hospital for their circumcision - that was the early 30s!! So, at least in New Orleans, it was an ingrained practice and I'm willing to bet that old, local (traditional) families in places like New Orleans still have their sons circed at birth.

To those guys angry at being circed without their consent, you really need therapy - and a job that keeps you occupied. Start stretching or something... but leave those of us content with our status out of it.

Your parents signed forms, somewhere in those forms was a consent to the circumcision. Didn't they read the forms? Mine did. My dad explained it when I had to be circumcised a few years later. There was a section in very small fine print which gave a choice of circumcising, circle yes or no. At the bottom of this page which was 1 of many related to a baby being born, was an asterisk * which referred back to that. It stated if neither was circled, a circumcision would be performed. So twice on the forms a choice was given.
Expectant parents need to read forms and talk to doctors. If the dad to be is there then he knows that circumcision exists and has thoughts on it of some sort so he should be speaking up. If he is against it, he owes it to his soon to be born child. If he is for it, and knowing that many insurances don't cover it any more, then he needs to talk about it since if he has a son the baby will not be circumcised and he has to either be okay with that or say he will pay for it himself. Either way he needs to be saying something.



We are similar age so your comment that nobody was uncircumcised among the people you grew up with, leave me baffled. I saw other uncircumcised males growing up, and they were my age, most born here in the U.S. There weren't a lot of them but they did exist both in Idaho where I was born and then in western Pennsylvania where we moved just before my teens.

My second college roommate was uncircumcised. I mention this because he was from Louisiana. He had been born and raised outside New Orleans in Slidell where he was born and then in Metairie where he went to high school.

this link Circumcision Statistics goes to a map which shows LOuisiana as a state as being at approx. 42 percent circumcised at this time.
 

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I remember right after my birth my mom asking me if i would like to be circumcised. She told me i said in broken english, it was broken english because i just started to learn the language that i said yes momma but not knowing the language very well i thought she asked me if i would like to be cuddled..That's my story and i'm sticking to it...