Think this needs it's own thread since the female circumcision thread was going this way....
When I found out I was cut I wanted to believe it was good and tried to for a while but the logic just wasn't there. I had visitied many pro and anti-circ websites and had also stumbled on some foreskin restoration websites. I decided I was going to restore what I could if nothing else to make it as much of my decision as I could at this point. The process took 2 years to complete. The difference was quite a bit more then I expected. The gliding skin alone was worth the effort but the glans is also no longer dried out (didn't realize how bad it was and how much more sensitive it could be until I restored). Obviously the most sensitive parts are gone forever but after restoring just what could be restored the difference was enough that I can't see circumcision as anything other then genital mutilation
as for std's since people commonly chime in about it, the studies are VERY mixed, studies that are pro-circ are generally old and often biased (such as one sensitivity study often referred to that they never even measured sensation on the foreskin). Aids and STD rates are higher in the U.S. (which has a high cutting rate) verse any country in western europe which almost all have a very very low cutting rate. If there was some protection from cutting we would expect the results to be the complete opposite.
As for infections/uti's, girls have 3 times the risk of uti's then intact boys, we wouldn't consider cutting them. plus infections and many foreskin problems in infants are solely caused by improper care when caretakers try to retract the foreskin (this should never be done, it will retract on it's own later in life) so if the parent just makes sure caretakers are aware of this since americans are generally clueless of the foreskin problems will be minimal. Even with that in mind however problems with a circumcised penis tend to be as high or higher then intact penises so that argument is invalid anyway.
Cutting up someone else's genitals without reason is unethical,cruel and just plain wrong. It sickens me that in this day of age that we still allow this to continue knowing the harm it does. As for parent's rights a parent does not have the right to harm their child. Let the child have the rights to his or her own body, let them have a say.
When I found out I was cut I wanted to believe it was good and tried to for a while but the logic just wasn't there. I had visitied many pro and anti-circ websites and had also stumbled on some foreskin restoration websites. I decided I was going to restore what I could if nothing else to make it as much of my decision as I could at this point. The process took 2 years to complete. The difference was quite a bit more then I expected. The gliding skin alone was worth the effort but the glans is also no longer dried out (didn't realize how bad it was and how much more sensitive it could be until I restored). Obviously the most sensitive parts are gone forever but after restoring just what could be restored the difference was enough that I can't see circumcision as anything other then genital mutilation
as for std's since people commonly chime in about it, the studies are VERY mixed, studies that are pro-circ are generally old and often biased (such as one sensitivity study often referred to that they never even measured sensation on the foreskin). Aids and STD rates are higher in the U.S. (which has a high cutting rate) verse any country in western europe which almost all have a very very low cutting rate. If there was some protection from cutting we would expect the results to be the complete opposite.
As for infections/uti's, girls have 3 times the risk of uti's then intact boys, we wouldn't consider cutting them. plus infections and many foreskin problems in infants are solely caused by improper care when caretakers try to retract the foreskin (this should never be done, it will retract on it's own later in life) so if the parent just makes sure caretakers are aware of this since americans are generally clueless of the foreskin problems will be minimal. Even with that in mind however problems with a circumcised penis tend to be as high or higher then intact penises so that argument is invalid anyway.
Cutting up someone else's genitals without reason is unethical,cruel and just plain wrong. It sickens me that in this day of age that we still allow this to continue knowing the harm it does. As for parent's rights a parent does not have the right to harm their child. Let the child have the rights to his or her own body, let them have a say.
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. All I can is that practically every major form of religion that has to do with the God of Moses proposes that circumcision is necessary. That's gotta be at least half the world population. I mean: Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Christians, etc. 
