This is going way too far!

No national medical organization in the world recommends routine circumcision of male infants.

http://www.circumcision.org/position.htm

Many people cannot accept this because either they were circumcised or had their children circumcised. Denial does allow a person to function all be it a reduced capacity. So the unethical treatment of our disposable gender continues.

The most recent reference for the above link:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:me50GHLk5IAJ:www.ocsc.vic.gov.au/downloads/male_circumcision.pdf+2010+Royal+Australasian+College+of+Physicians+circumcism&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgCEJFMusvcVKlBwGFh6BaBaaApgO4J7ryyErGOQlQR6JPpDaCStq0gkVBoc5PkgrMjGXHwpokF9pWS9rBUZCmFtZIHV1cwj2Jy1w9uwubInajbqtaPHW_2NJ8ZsGg3dd7aQTsg&sig=AHIEtbRJalgy-WJuPItulSQ1dHKUXeOTXw

Well, I had my boys circumcised and I regretted it. I think it should be their decision. And as a parent, if the boys are not circumcised, we should make sure they know what to clean, how to clean it, and do it.

Local_Historian wrote: Just a point - baby Indian (India type) have their ears peirced.

Comparing female circumcision - done to repress the female sex drive, done without anethesia most of the time, often done with a razor blade, causing even more damage, and done by non medical professionals too often - to the removal of the foreskin, done by doctors, with anethesia, without any damage the vast majority of the time is ridiculous. They are by no means the same.

This org compares the two.

Similarities in Attitudes and Misconceptions toward Infant Male Circumcision in North America and Ritual Female Genital Cutting in Africa

http://www.nocircpa.org/4723.html

Parents need to educate themselves and not do unnecessary/unethical surgery on their babies.

Ignore the Myths,
Get the Facts

http://www.nocircpa.org/4642.html

jmc wrote: The decision should be made by the boy just before puberty around 12 years old. I would guess there would not be many performed. I wish I had have been given a choice.

They do offer reconstructive surgery, but I think I would pass on that. :VeryScared:

The government needs to keeps its hands off our penises!!!!

Well, since most women don't have a penis it really matters not to me what their thoughts are. However, it sure does matter what my own child does. Just saying