I got mine done as a baby. I knew a guy that got it done in high school. I'm glad my parents made the right choice.
WTF is wrong with people
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vkhamphi
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Why is it the right choice?
It's a baby, it doesn't have the capacity to exercise choice lol. Not to threadjack any further but it's not about choice. One is for the child's benefit (debatable as it may be) while the other is for the benefit of insecure religious zealots.
Someone I know got it done as a teenager by his uncle with no anesthetic. Ouch! I'm glad I have no memory of it.
Pretty easily...needles, not for the baby's benefit etc.
As for circumcision, there's no real health benefits beyond a few studies that show aids transmission might be affected. It's mostly tradition and religious reasons.
rmemedic
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Lol ok, at least you had anesthetic then. I just had nurses holding me down. But, I guess it's why I have a high pain tolerance now.
I've assisted on some vasectomies, the doc has his classic rock cranked up, usually singing along or having a normal conversation about anything other than the procedure between the three of us. Some of the patients don't really appreciate it, but after like 30 years of doing it, the Dr. is pretty efficient at it.
Dave L
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My son did not get "cut" and my daughter just recently got her ears pierced. She was 8 and had wanted it done. I also have a tattoo and although I wouldnt say that its was really painful I certainly do have an issue with parents and a tattoo "artist" doing this to a child.
Now i look like a porn star. haha. Mushroom Head > Ant Eater.
My son did get circumcised, but I was only 22 at the time. Now that I am older I wouldn't have gotten it done, because it is genital mutilation. My wife wanted to get our daughters ears pierced when she was 8 months old. I told her only if our son did me of his ears, he was 10 at the time. He wanted it and she said fine, he's had for the past 6 years.
We were driving last night and Howard Stern started talking about this video. I paused it and asked him what he though of it. He said he didn't think it was right. I then explained what circumcision is and why that's ok and getting ears pierced is ok, then why is a tattoo so bad. He admitted that it didn't make any sense why cutting a kids penis and jabbing needles through ears is ok, but tattoos aren't.
No admittedly I would never do it, I am smart enough to realize that times change and what is acceptable now, wasn't even 30 years ago. Move ahead or get left behind.
Though it was done rather extensively in the 1950s and 1960s, for perceived reasons of cleanliness. It's the sort of thing that goes in cycles, when it isn't done for religious reasons.
