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should I get circumcised?
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replied August 19th, 2007
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Re: Circumcision
Sheldon Munn wrote:
should I get circumcised?

With no other information presented, I must say

NO
Absolutely NOT.

There is no medical benefit for a healthy man to shop off his foreskin. There are in fact far more downsides than "up" sides. I would never recommend circumcision to anyone unless they had something like incurable phimosis.
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replied August 19th, 2007
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Re: Circumcision
Eiri wrote:


There is no medical benefit for a healthy man to shop off his foreskin. There are in fact far more downsides than "up" sides. I would never recommend circumcision to anyone unless they had something like incurable phimosis.


I've got to agree with Eiri on this one and I'm cut. I never had a choice, something you do have and I recommend you stay the way you are. Logically, as she said, there is no medical reason to do this, so why would you?

I have never had a problem with what little foreskin I have left, but after researching the subject, I have become an adamant uncut proponent. It's cutting off a part of your body, man! Most women are not scared off by uncut men and most don't care, because they usually like or love the guy for other reasons.

Phimosis is the only reason to get cut nowadays because the US is really the only place where circumcisions are performed for family reasons like cleanliness, matching the father or looks. Believe me, if you clean your foreskin regularly, it's all good.
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replied August 19th, 2007
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I'll make it unanimous and strongly agree with the others not to do it unless there is a real physical reason for it. I was also circumcised as a baby and I see absolutely no benefit to it.
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replied August 20th, 2007
The idea that circumcision ruins everything is far from proven. There are both studies and anecdotes that claim that it has little if any negative effect on sexual function, just as there those that say the opposite for 'the other side'. In fact, some men that have had it done as adults say their sensation is improved. So it seems there are success stories to match the sob stories.
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