I had a son. I left him uncut. At three, he developed an infection. Medical 'wisdom' at the time said that his foreskin was attached to the head, and that he needed to be circumcised.
We consulted with three other doctors. All agreed. We had him circumcised. There were no complications.
Later, I find out that it is perfectly normal for a three year old's foreskin to be attached to the head. They could have treated him with an antibiotic, the way they would have if he was female. Certainly, between four doctors, you would think that one might have a grasp on basic human anatomy. But, either that was not the case, or all four covered each other's asses.
You can't trust the medical community in the US, because their answer for a hangnail is circumcision. Around the time of my boy's circumcision, they were saying that a newborn's nervous system is not developed enough to feel pain, so no anesthesia was necessary.
Later, sugar water and a pacifier was enough. Today's medical myth is that playing soothing music lessens the pain. You can try this at home. Stick a knife in your genitalia.
Put on some soothing music. Stick a knife in your genitalia. There, wasn't it better the second time?
A normal, working foreskin is a great benefit to both partners. It makes entry easier and gentler. Most of the nerves are in the inner foreskin and frenulum, and both are damaged or removed in circumcision. If you look at a cut guy masturbating, it is a much more violent act. Many uncut guys don't even touch the head with the foreskin. Rubbing the foreskin against the inner foreskin is enough to do it completely for them. A penis is meant by nature to be moist. It's a mucous membrane, like the mouth, vagina, or anus. Circumcision makes an internal organ into an external one, with more in common with the skin on your arm, than the skin in your mouth. Who here is in favor of exposing the inside of their mouth forever? Vagina? Then, why would you do it to a penis?
There's nothing wrong with a circumcised penis. They still function. They still do everything nature intended. Do they give the owner the same level of pleasure, as a normally functioning foreskin? Of course not. How can something with 20,000 nerves missing feel the same as something which has the 20,000 nerves. If you removed the fingertips, would you say the fingers had the same level of feeling? Why is a penis any different? A mouth without a tongue would be cleaner. There would be less places for food particles to hide. Nobody is advocating that, though. Women have foreskins. Why is there no debate over removing them, except as it crosses US Federal law? Circumcised women are cleaner, studies show it...for the same reason the mouth would be cleaner without a tongue. How much trouble does a woman's foreskin cause? That is how much the typical male foreskin causes. These things have been evolving on mammals for 120 million years, and on humans for 4.7 million, at least. Most of the kinks have been worked out long ago.
There is no other healthy body part which is routinely removed. Why this one?
Why do they work fine for men in Europe, South America, Asia, Australia? Why are the HIV and HPV infection rates lower in European countries, than they are in the mostly circumcised US? How many circumcised Americans have died of AIDS, and how protected were they?
Given a choice between losing my foreskin, and death, I'd pick death. It wouldn't be a hard decision, either. I never knew a man who said, "I'd like less penis, please".
We had a daughter, then another son. We left him uncut. He thanked us several times.
The bottom line is, it's his penis, he gets to live with it for the rest of his life.