Circumcision

On every "mommy board" I have posted at, no one ever admits to circumcising thier sons. Ever. So I suspect that the next few generations will be highter than 25%, even discounting all the moms who don't admit to it because they want to still enjoy posting with other moms without "what do you know, you mutilated your son" coming up every day. It's a minefield of a topic, that's for sure.

I had already decided if I had boys not to do it, and I had to talk my husband out of it - his best friend growing up was apparently the ONLY BOY IN THE WHOLE TOWN who wasn't cut (possbily the Eastern Seaboard!). We just had girls, though, so it was moot.
 
My boys are cut. We did it for semi-religious reasons, for much the same reason my helix and tongue are pierced. Physical reminders of who we are, Whom we belong to, what we are doing, and where we are going.

I realize they had no say in their circumcision. But I had no say in receiving my mercury-laden vaccines, nor the gov't trying to take me from my family, nor my inadequate public schooling... nor many of the ill-begotten windfalls in my life. But even so, I accept them, learn from them, and move on.

I hope my boys can appreciate being cut, and why. If not, I hope they can appreciate my advice, to accept, learn, and move on.
 
honestly, the way the rabid threads would go, I think that some people worried way too much about other peoples children's foreskins. I have never looked at a kid and thought "I wonder if his parents had him cut?" and I don't imagine that a lot of other people do either in reeal life. However, on parenting websites, it was often seen as a litmus test of "good parenting." One of those things the internet has given us - the ability to get into full fledged raging arguments with people that we don't really know, so we can easily divide them into "good" and "bad."
 
honestly, the way the rabid threads would go, I think that some people worried way too much about other peoples children's foreskins. I have never looked at a kid and thought "I wonder if his parents had him cut?" and I don't imagine that a lot of other people do either in reeal life. However, on parenting websites, it was often seen as a litmus test of "good parenting." One of those things the internet has given us - the ability to get into full fledged raging arguments with people that we don't really know, so we can easily divide them into "good" and "bad."

I hear that. I know a lot of those "be a good parent" tv-shows would love to smack the shit out of me because of how I raise my boys... but they are *the* most well-mannered, polite, caring, and selfless kids I've ever met, and I am honored to be their mom. Then I look at their cousins (where most of them were raised by the concepts most of these tv shows and websites advocate), and I want to pull my hair out because they treat their parents like shit, and their parents think it's normal, and moan and cry about how spoiled they are, or how they talk back, or fight, or whatnot.

Circumcision really should be *the* *last* concern on our list as to whether we're good parents or not. We ought to be more concerned on stuff like grades, sharing, manners, and overall growth as an individual... not whether they have a little extra skin to be pleasured with, or not. Sex is not the end-all, be-all, to most of us... neither should we let it be the end-all be-all of that of our kids, either.
 
honestly, the way the rabid threads would go, I think that some people worried way too much about other peoples children's foreskins. I have never looked at a kid and thought "I wonder if his parents had him cut?" and I don't imagine that a lot of other people do either in reeal life. However, on parenting websites, it was often seen as a litmus test of "good parenting." One of those things the internet has given us - the ability to get into full fledged raging arguments with people that we don't really know, so we can easily divide them into "good" and "bad."
I'd like to go on those boards and say "yes I got my son cut" and be all proud and then they'd yell at me and I'd be like I'M JEWISH YOU BITCHES!!

Then again, I'm only assuming they don't snark at the Jewish mothers for it. Maybe they do.
 
Money

There is one utterly compelling reason for chopping the end off a boys dick.

Doctors get paid for it .

There is no other reason. A lot of people here have suggested uncircumcised boys get STD's - Bull shit, not one of those people has produced a reliable source as evidence.

They have simply believed some second rate MD looking for an additional fee for a completely unnecessary procedure.
 
What I really want to know is, whose business is it of anyone else's if parents want to get their boys circumcised? This is a decision typically made when the child is an infant (in this country anyway) so consulting the child is not an option. Therefore it is the parents' decision - nobody else's. Why do people get all up in somebody else's business?
 
I don't seen snarking going on here. I see people sharing opinions and views, having a discussion.

:rose:
 
I think people do it because it makes them feel superior. And I also think that for some people, they feel like if they do certain things that make them a "good parent" then nothing bad will ever happen to thier kids, thier kids will never have any hard problems, etc.

You sort of see it when something tragic happens to a child and people start to point out how it could have been prevented - the whole "it won't happen to me because i do a, b, c" thing.

Also, I had bad taste in my parenting board, it was really judgemental...and I was so insecure as a parent for a while that I was looking for someone to tell me the "right" way to do things...ha ha, the right way to parent! that's funny, now!
 
I belong to quite a few parenting boards. I've never seen anyone taken to task for circumcising their boy. The reason being, is that MOST still practice this in the US.

I even belong to some "crunchy" parenting boards.

However, quite a few of them do get pissy if you don't agree with them about religious matters.

Dumb bitches.

I actually have a file folder of the witch hunters on some sites. If you don't agree with them you are automatically being "mean" and / or "need their help."

:eek:

That being said, I know quite a few religious types from quite a few religions that are actually wonderful people. They seem to be in the minority though.

Also, I would NEVER join a board that was clearly religious as part of it's whole function. I would know that wasn't the place for me. So if that board had been the God Squad Moms Board I wouldn't have joined!
 
Ok, we've established I'm ignorant

I thought I admitted it upfront in my original post.

At this point, I'd like to say I'm sorry if my post caused any mothers or fathers pain about a decision they may have made concerning their sons. That wasn't my intent.

However, I would like to see the practice end or, at least, for parents to consider carefully before acting in the future.

Circumcision is not a ritual it is a medical procedure. Those words have very different meanings so don't confuse them like that.

Mutilates you say? The definition of mutilation does not fit with the act of circumcision at all. It does not deprive the male of an essential part, does not disfigure or damage and does not make a penis imperfect. By throwing those kinds of words out, you sound ignorant and you invalidate your point.

1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably
3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts

Disfigurement or injury by removal or destruction of any conspicuous or essential part of the body.
 
Thangs that make you go hmm?



I like any customers cock full, cock less, cut or not, in today's society. I would think anyone would. Hmm.

Her profile claims she's a sex worker in India. I would imagine cockless customers are hard to come by!

SO...TO...SPEAK.
 
Her profile claims she's a sex worker in India. I would imagine cockless customers are hard to come by!

SO...TO...SPEAK.

Maybe not, eunuchs can get off too. Somehow, right??? The biggest bestest sex organ is between the ears after all.
 
Maybe not, eunuchs can get off too. Somehow, right??? The biggest bestest sex organ is between the ears after all.

Well, yes and no. Eunuchs - castrati - have less testosterone; the reason they chemically castrate sex offenders is in the hopes that it'll stop them from attacking people. It doesn't usually stop the attacks, but it lessens the orgasm's intensity. (Still there, still involves ejaculate (no semen), but less fun.) So yeah, eunuchs can have sexual pleasure, you're absolutely right - same with people who have paralysis.

But cockless people...without a penis...hard to come BY...then again maybe they have great tongue skills...

Oh hell I'm beating this horse.
 
Wait though I don't have a cock!

Well, sometimes I borrow one.

And I do have a bag full of them too . . .

:devil:
 
You keep them in a BAG?!?!

Derailing a thread that was already discussed to death and then bumped. All part of the services I provide.
 
You heartless hussies

don't you appreciate we're talking about serious stuff

us men get real nervous when the discussion involves chopping off parts of our parts.

I don't even like humans and wish there were about the same number of them as there was about 5000 years ago; but, still don't like chopping around on the organ that over-produced them.

Sure! I keep them in a BIG pink Hello Kitty bag!

:D
 
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