Male circumcision

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Ugh here we go again.
- Smegma is not a problem for those with proper hygiene.
- Penile cancer is incredibly rare, even rarer among boys under 18 no? Not to mention the evidence for the reduction is risk is questionable at best.
- Later life circumcisions are RELATIVELY less safe and less easy. But all in all it's still a very safe procedure, certainly much safer than other cosmetic procedures, not a good reason to do it against the kids will.
- Irreversibly chopping off a functional body part for anything other than correcting a serious dysfunction of the penis should always ALWAYS be the choice of the owner of said penis and maybe not even then.

Wtf? So now anti-circumcision = antisemitic?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLGcqPE7xu0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3oa4Mx9hs[/youtube]

Nice unbiased videos here (ahaha kidding)

Even if they did make laws regulating circumcision, they'll likely still allow it for religious or medical reasons, like they did in South Africa. So, Jews and Muslims would still be able to have their sons circumcised.

You should cut your hands, it will reduce you the work that is to wash them.

@THE CURSE OF SMEGMA. I am uncircumcised. Smegma is not a big deal at all, it is just something you need to wash during shower time just like you need to wash your feet. Unnecessary detail: It gives you pleasure to wash it even.

Since this topic is screaming to me that I shall give my opinion here it is:
- The supposed lesser infection rates are meaningless in comparison to the improvement in rates for using a condom.
- Pinile cancer rate studies are not convincing.
- Either way no rate found in regards to circumcision is relevant at all.

I won't deny that maybe 5000 years ago , it made a different, but in 2011, we have condoms and they are much better - Compare a 5% relative improvement to a 97% protection rate. The study ruveyn posted the other day was clear enough: There are not enough health reasons to promote widespread circumcision.

Now, about whether babies getting their penises cut is evil or wrong. It is actually true that there are tons and tons of people out there that went through it and they don't seem to be crazy because of it.

The claims about the uncircumcised penis giving more pleasure to the partner or the penis' owner are impossible to test as well.

So, what I must say here is that , for the life of god I cannot find any good scientific reason for or against circumcision. My common sense though tells me that it is probably not a good idea to put a knife close to my penis unless it was really, really necessary. But since science hardly has a say in regards to what is better or not, what parents do or don't with their babies' penises is their problem though. I for sure wouldn't do that, there is no need for that and in here the culture is not to circumcise them, but if you'd like to do that to your kid, go ahead.

Also, and to derail the topic, USamericans have to admit that the reason they are a majority of circumcised is not because of out of respect to semitic tradition nor to prevent penile cancer. But because US protestants during the 18-th (or 17-th? I am not sure) century were very scared of the idea of kids masturbating and thought that circumcision would be an effective counter-measure.

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Note that there is a woman named B.J. Smegma in the video.