Recent questions tagged circumcision

Description : Did you circumcize your male kids?

Last Answer : answer:Circumcision is common in the USA where I live. A niece, who is a children's doctor and jut had her first child (a male) was asked if she and her husband, also a medical doctor, had ... to keep their son's penis clean and free from disease or risk it in exchange for better sexual stimulation.

Description : Is it true that the foreskin of a male baby is "fused" until they're about 10 years old, and doesn't retract until then?

Last Answer : answer:Nop, not so. I clearly remember pulling back my foreskin in the bath tub age 4–5 and sticking a big wad of chewing gum on the end of it and laughing my ass off. I was a strange kid.

Description : How did the idea to start circumcising men or women arise?

Last Answer : You can’t really compare the two, you know. Female circumcision is really more like castration.

Description : Why isn't male circumcision as abhored (and illegal) as any type of female genital mutilation?

Last Answer : Um, religion? My sisters have both circumcised their sons, for no other reason than so he'll look like everyone else . And I've heard the hygiene reasoning, but I don't buy it. Female genitalia ... and they spend the rest of their lives trying to make up for the loss of that exquisite sensitivity.)