I know of 2 people who had it done, neither was for cosmetic reasons.
Are you circumcised or uncircumcised?
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Um, just because a baby will not remember the pain does not mean it's OK to inflict it upon him. Adults are given anesthetic during the surgery and pain relief afterwards. Babies get neither one. Since the infant foreskin is attached (whereas the adult one usually is not), it has to be literally peeled off his penis. Is that something you'd care to experience without pain relief? And to add to the pain, nice fresh urine in an open wound? How can anyone inflict that upon their newborn?
Personally, I feel that babies scream so much anyway and remember so little that it really doesn't matter that much. Being born is an altogether shitty experience. Might as well get the foreskin out of the way then, when things suck anyway.
The reason babies do not receive anesthetics for the procedure is that such drugs can harm of kill a newborn.
To bad you're both wrong. Babies do in fact take a local. I wouldn't have done it to my son otherwise. Now, i'm sure there are places that don't do that.. That was the first question i asked.. If fact, i remember the doc saying that Miles slept right through it.
The hospital my son was born at did NOT use anesthetic for circs. We were specifically told that during child birth class. So no, I'm not "wrong". I understand some places do use some pain relief, but it is by no means universal.
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This "only stickling point" is a significant one, in that most circumcised males undergo the procedure for religious reasons. Something like 70% of all circumcised males are Muslims, amongst whom the prevalence of circumcision is well above 90%. Circumcision for reasons unrelated to religious beliefs and traditions is the exception, not the rule.
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I'm cut baby; who wants pics? 
^ I can sense Shameless entering the thread 
You rang?
Heh. I don't think we *CAN* technically post THOSE kinds of pictures here, can we?
I'm cut baby; who wants pics?
Seriously?
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Doesn't really excuse the "mutilated" shit though. Some guys seem to like to make a big deal out of something that to me really isn't that big a deal. I prefer the cut look, and I'm glad that I'm circumcised and that it was done to me as a child, but I'm not really "proud" of it. There's so much insecurity there with some people it really perplexes me, and the way they argue about it, its almost like arguing with religious people, seriously, it's like the Holy Church of the Foreskin the way some of them act.Well, you don't have to be Freud to work out why
The dick is central to our egos, society tells us it is constantly as well. Tell a man his dick is ugly he's gonna get uptight about it, make him think about having to cut a bit of it off he's gonna get uptight about it, tell a man his dick is incomplete he's gonna get uptight about it. It's no wonder that by and large the two sides don't see eye to eye, so to speak...
I'm going to guess that's because 1) it's what they're used to by that point, and 2) even though they'd be unconscious for surgery, afterwards there would still be pain and there's always the chance of infection, especially given how dirty that area can get since God had to be a civil engineer and route the toxic waste disposal system through the amusement park ride.
HAHA. Yes, quite.
Why so serious?
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