Should I circumcize my son?

[Alexander's Horse]

That's very funny Asher.

I like how I look and who I am.

When you've actually done a few things in life, anything in fact, let's talk again son.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
When you've actually done a few things in life, anything in fact, let's talk again son.

I find the trend of old men using that argument in every situation they can to be very annoying. blackice, Horsie, and Sneak all use it and they use it in situations where it's entirely irrelevant.

I'm glad you like how you look and who you are, everybody loves stories about people who never give up in the face of adversity.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Seneca
This may have been pointed out (not read the the whole thread), but I feel it's worth articulating the reaction of the average British gentile male, who's rather unfamiliar with the concept.

OOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!! ****ing ***!!! I mean, OOOWWWWW!!!!! *****!!! How can you can even think of ****ing your own kid's ****?

Oooffff!!!

I mean, one tries to be broad-minded and all that, but... NOOOOO!!!

very well articulated.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Asher

I find the trend of old men using that argument in every situation they can to be very annoying. blackice, Horsie, and Sneak all use it and they use it in situations where it's entirely irrelevant.

I'm glad you like how you look and who you are, everybody loves stories about people who never give up in the face of adversity.

Just wait 'til you get older... you'll be doing the same exact thing.

[Alexander's Horse]

Yeah - grow up a bit and we might stop talking down to you Asher

[Asher]

When I'm older I'll be too busy having fun at the Playboy Mansion to spend the last half of my life trolling Apolyton for ****s and giggles, Horsie.

[SuperSneak]

Don't you mean the Playgirl mansion?

[Asher]

Wouldn't want to move in on your turf big guy.

[notyoueither]

lol

I have to say that I must side with Asher, Strangelove and Tom. What a strange brew.

The procedure seems to have questionable benefits and potentially serious side effects.

In my case, I am 'uncut'. I would have been, because when I was a tott it was standard practice in these parts, only... my older brother had serious complications from his and thus my mother fended the blade masters away from me. I am slightly older than the average Polyzen so when I was eligible things were different here than what Asher is indicating.

When I was in school, in the locker room, it was obvious at a glance that I was the only 'complete' unit in the lot. Nobody ever made an issue of it. No woman has ever told me to go away based on the appearance of my gun.

Don't know if this helps. At this point this thread is prolly beyond help. However, you asked for opinions of men on the subject. So mine is that I would not have it done to my prospective son, because I think it is unecessary and intrusive.

I am undecided about whether it should be banned, but I am leaning in that direction unless some valid medical opinions on the benefits are brought to my attention.

[SuperSneak]

Originally posted by Asher
Wouldn't want to move in on your turf big guy.

That's funny...weren't you the one who professes to be a pole smoker?

[Tom31]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
ONE guy says it isn't de minimis... the rabbis probably thought he was asking if it was no/minimum pain to the infant, not if the cutting of foreskin is such a minimum wounding to be irrelevant.

De minimis is like when you accidentally bump into somebody on the bus, not when you remove half the skin from their sex organ.

In any case, male circumcision is comparable to Type I female circumcision (removal of clitoral hood) and the latter is a felony.

"Whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."

--Title 18 United States Code Section 116

[JohnT]

God, are we back to the De minimis discussion again?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by SuperSneak

That's funny...weren't you the one who professes to be a pole smoker?

IIRC, Asher's an AC/DC kind of guy.

[SuperSneak]

Yeah...I wonder how he pulls that off at his parent's house? They probably wouldn't approve.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by JohnT
God, are we back to the De minimis discussion again?

What do you think people from some cultures think about our proscriptions against female circumcision?