PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for January, 2003: Re: to Circumcise or Not???

Re: to Circumcise or Not??? - Dr. response please

From: Anna (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:08:42 -0600 (CST)

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Just my experience - I grew up in a European country where nobody was circumcised at birth, and out of all the boys in my age range only one ended up being circed at around 10 or so. It really is rarely needed, if ever. (The society I grew in was quite "liberated", so I knew what he had done, and I would have known about any others.)

An uncirced penis is no more dirty than a circed one, or you'd have to circumcise girls too - all those folds and crevasses, how can anybody trust a kid to keep them clean??? Hygiene is really no good reason whatsoever. Millions of little European boys live happily the way nature made them, and their mothers don't fret over it.

Oh, and one more thing: Sex is better "with". BTDT, clear choice. :-)

-- Anna

At Tue, 28 Jan 2003, lynn wrote: > >I think infection is the exception, not the rule. The fact that 4 brothers >all got infections bad enough to need circumcision I think is bizarre. Only >reason I'm saying this is that my hubby is from England, where they do not >circumcize. He never even heard of infection down there until I asked him >about it. Of course you have to be taught at a young age how to wash the >area. My obgyn had told me that years ago they thought men that were >uncircumcised had more risk of infection and penile cancer. He told me that >within the past few years, these claims have been found to be >unsubstantiated, and that is why more parents are opting not to circumcise >anymore. In other words, there is no medical benefit to it. I'd love to hear >from another doctor on this.... >

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