Reading through the comments about the topic of circumcision always confuses me and I cannot fathom as to why people make such a big deal out of something so simple. And the nerve and outright stupidity that some of you have to call or even compare male circumcision to genital mutilation just goes to show how uneducated and naive you are. If you want to know what REAL genital mutilation is, do a quick google search on female genital mutilation, especially in Africa and the Middle East, and then try to make a logical comparison between the two. Real genital mutilation has the specific goal to intentionally and knowingly remove and disfigure very large portions of the genitals with the singular objective of destroying the ability to feel or enjoy sensation from that part of the body. If you still think that there is even the slightest similarity between male circumcision in Western Society to that type of barbaric sadism, then you are hopelessly incapable of rational thinking.
With that being said, the simple fact and only real truth of male circumcision is that the medical community is still undecided about any benefits or lack thereof when it comes to male circumcision. Period, there is no logically arguing that fact, and you are just biased if you do try to argue it. The medical community is very divided on the issue so no real consensus can be claimed for either side of the debate.
Some studies and reports suggest that men who are circumcised are less prone to catching and spreading STIs. While other reports say that no such benefit exists. At the same time there are reports that circumcised men are less physically sensitive than their counterparts, while other studies state the contrary ( this particular topic is especially dubious because sensitivity is obviously going to vary from man to man and from penis to penis and as such would be impossible to have any solid scientific basis for meaningful and most importantly comparable data ). Several studies of HIV transmission amongst African men showed circumcised men to contract the disease less frequently, while other studies have shown otherwise.
The only thing that is a fact about circumcision is that there are NO clear benefits NOR disadvantages of being circumcised. PERIOD. The entire issue basically comes down to preference.
I like being circumcised and I am very grateful for my parents having had the procedure done shortly after birth and giving me a gift which I enjoy as well as do my partners, and if I ever have a son I will do the same for him.
Some of you however really need to find something more important to stress and complain about than how your parents "ruined you" or "made your decisions" for you. And don't even try feeding me some half ass comment about how circumcision is psychologically traumatic and damaging to an infant, no such significant nor credible scientific evidence exists to support that theory. What is however generally accepted by most reputable psychologists is that the human brain is incapable of processing such events as being traumatic at such a young age since the mind of an infant is not sufficiently developed enough at that age to understand the context of such an event in order for the mind to form an actual memory of it, much less a memory which would have long lasting and negative damage. This could best be described as a person who was born blind being asked to describe a color in detail, they just don't have the right context to do so.
It comes down to this really, you have a penis, it works, and there is no significant difference, medically speaking, between being cut or uncut. The only difference is in entirely in your mind. So please, grow the fuck up, get the fuck over it, and move the fuck on....there are far more important things to life than worrying what yours or someone else's penis looks like