02-21-2018, 12:36 PM
(02-21-2018, 10:57 AM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: Did that get your attention? Honestly, I really don't need to know about your bits or lack there of, but I thought this was an interesting topic to add to this board. Iceland is proposing to ban all circumcisions on baby boys, the lawmaker from the center-right Progressive Party said she proposed the measure after realizing the country's ban on female genital mutilation had no equivalent to prevent male circumcision.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/12/iceland-considers-ban-circumcision/
Personally, maybe this is just an ‘American’ POV, but I certainly feel like the health benefits outweigh the risks emmensely. I’m no doctor, so if someone on here knows more about that, please weigh in. I know when my son was born I weighed the pros and cons of circumsizing him and finally decided I didn’t want him to get beat up in junior high PE class for having a turtle head. At least that would have happened in my junior high days. Now maybe things have changed since my days, but I still feel like I made the right decision.
I'd have to put in the effort to actually research, but I feel like the "health benefits" are really a nonfactor, and generally overstated. Even if studies are accurate and unbiased, UTIs have much more to do with hygiene, penile cancer has much more to do with other risk factors like smoking, and STDs have way more to do with unsafe sex.
I think it's much more an aesthetic/personal decision made by the parents (you admitted as much with the junior high possibilities) and to an extent I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I personally don't care one way or the other, and if my wife and I have to make that decision we've already discussed that we'll go the circumcision route. I think it has most to do with that fact that I am myself, and I think it would be an easy decision to leave my child intact if I were as well.
There are pros and cons and risks with both. And ultimately it comes down to the parents making the best chance they can given the circumstances. I agree with Pat in that it's probably not a decision that a grown man/older child would like to make.
