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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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.
The human body works just fine as it comes, I assure you. Also, with phimosis, I actually know a man who had it. He was circumcised later in life as treatment. Preemptively cutting off foreskin bc you MIGHT by some small chance get it is meant to scare people to do it. UTIs...that is easily treatable with antibiotics and men rarely get them. Sexual disease....I don't even know where to begin on this bc I've heard it so often as a "reason". Lobbing off body parts to prevent disease is just bizarre. I know you likely will scoff at what I say here, but in the off chance you are open to thinking more about it....just ask yourself if you would start trimming other parts of skin/organs to prevent all these things and go from there with the logic.