So I was circumcised as a baby and I personally don't mind that my parents did that. BUT isn't it similar to giving children hormone blockers (obviously not as extreme, but the principle). To my understanding the surgery is purely cosmetic and causes the nerve endings to be destroyed making sex less pleasurable. Do you guys support parents circumcising their children? Is it ethically wrong to make that decision for a child?
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A lot of people talk about not wanting to cause pain to their child. But for a little perspective, a baby getting circumcised has just recently been compressed and pushed through the birthing canal. Slicing off a little extra skin pales in comparison to that pain of child birth.
Slicing off skin from the penis...a vascular and highly sensitive area with no pain killers. Why do you think they take the baby out of the room to do it? Bc it's a fun time for baby? No. Use logic and see beyond the ingrained cultural norms.
yeah they never let parents see.
When I had my kids circumcised, we did it at the pediatricians office a couple days after birth. There was a local anesthetic applied. I was in the room the whole time. Yes, the babies cried, but nothing severe and they stopped 5 minutes later. All in all, it's a minor procedure.
Why put them through that at all?
Decrease risk of sexual disease transmission and UTI's. Aesthetics. And that whole phimosis thing is scary as shit.