Circumcision?

[MamacitaTP]

Regardless of your religion or what not, how many of you are planning to get your little man circumcised?! I found out today that to do it, the doctor has a $260 fee and the hospital has a $200 fee, so $460 in total, not covered by Health Care. Pricey but I think me and my boyfriend still want to get it done for him. What are your thoughts?

[yourstruly21]

Im takin my son to have it done tmro

[Hugh7]

It's not covered by health care for a very good reason. It isn't health care!!

Most of the world's men have all we were born with - the vast majority of the men in the developed world - and we don't have any special problems with it. On the contrary, we enjoy "a symphony of sensation" from its >20,000 specialised nerves. Getting circumcised in adulthood has been compared to going colour-blind. Would you make your son colour-blind if you could? Or make him unable to see in 3D, by having one eye put out? Of course not!

The whole of the English-speaking world started circumcising, and outside the USA, found it did no good and gave it up. And now the USA has more HIV than most European countries. So much for that. (The cervical cancer claim is simply false. There is no connection.)

It certainly is a personal choice, and there's only one person who has any right to make that choice, when he is old enough. He'll almost always choose to keep it all.

[jayhatmom]

I am getting my son circumcised. There tend to be more health issues in men that are not and they've actually linked an increased risk in cervical cancer for woman whose sexual partners are not. Not to mention I'd hate for my son to be the one guy in the locker room who was different. I think it's a matter of personal choice and whether the other men in your sons life are or aren't, especially his father and brothers

[qunkieee]

im getting my son circumsized. it will only cost me 100$

[Combs7]

I am because there are so many things that can happen by not doing it. I asked my husband (who is circumsized) if he is glad his mom did it as a baby or would he rather have taken the chance of having to have it done asan adult or older child if there was problems. He said that it really wasn't an option to "hope for the best" when it comes to a penis & is quite satisfiedwith the decision to do it. Also, there is a higher risk of your son's wife having cervical cancer if he isn't circumsized. I figure I'm making a choice to not have him go through possible surgery later in life & his wife.

[Des92]

We are having a girl, but if she would have been a boy we would most deff gotten him circumcised... in the future when we have a boy we deff will.