flyingsaucerscandal (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Teaching your son to wash his foreskin is easier and less harmful than cutting it off. Whether or not to have your foreskin amputated should be the choice of the individual penis owner, not his parents.

lochinvar00465 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Traumatic?!?!?! Ya think? It is so far beyond any pain that boy is likely to ever experience in his whole life that to call it "trauma" is but a slight shadow of an understatement. And then, for the rest of his life to be sexually handicapped is a crime. How can you amputate healthy tissue from a child without any other reason than "the parents wanted it", maybe you should be more interested in what your patient(the boy) wants. I thought that was just simple medical ethics.

aromadti (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I've been married twice and both of my husbands were NOT circumcized thank god and they've never suffered any infections and they were also very clean, so to me that's such a stupid excuse when people say that they circumsized their child because of that, why perfom a torture on your baby when it isn't necessary, torturing a baby is sooo not human

aromadti (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I saw a documentary once, I forgot what the title was, but it was concerning a large group of adult men that were circumcised when they were born and they were talking about how angry they were with their parents because they ruined their sex life, they complained about how they suffered from impotence and other erectile disfunction due to the circumcision that was performed on them, something that the doctors were able to prove them in their case that that was the cause

aromadti (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's common freakin sense to know that circumcision is not necessary and DANGEROUS, to practice circumsicion is an insult to nature, if nature would have wanted men with a circumsized penis men would have been born that way, that piece of skin on the penis is there for a reason, not to be tampering with it, for what? for hygene and infection prevention? well what a stupid reason, that's why TEACHING was invented, to teach your male children how to be hygenically clean,problem is, people are lazy

amymurfthesmurf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The doctors know it wrong...I believe they will be punished in the end...as well as the parents for allowing it. My son is 5, I did not allow him to be mutilated, his penis is fine...no infections. I wish America would take another look at male circumcision with the same "open eyes" as female circumcision. The whole thing makes me sad. If you have a baby boy PLEASE dont let them amputate a part of him...you wouldnt let them remove his fingers or toes...so why remove a part of his penis?

manwithemeraldeyes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

america, for gods sake! STOP THE MUTILATION OF YOUR SONS!

brendubab (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

For fucks sake man approving the torture of male babies is a crime. How anyone can approve of that is beyond belief but guess what the US permits it. The US permits torture of male babies.

samarra86 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i would like a man to have it done while awake and not drugged. He then can see how "painless" it is.....were lucky babies cant talk!

brendubab (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The United States of America, Israel, and Arab and some African countries for religious and cultural reasons mutilate young male children. We are a civilised society and this torture of innocent male children must stop. Male genital mutilation is a crime against humanity.