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Circumcised or Not?

The Great Foreskin Debate

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Kanye West

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Sister just had a boy, and I was wondering where we stand on this issue.
 
Oh boy. "OMG anteater dick freaking women out" v. "OMG how dare you MUTILATE your children."

Both sides get pretty stupid about an issue which is mostly cosmetic and religion/tradition-based.
 
are there really that many women in 2015 that get freaked out by foreskin?
 
HalIncandenza said:
Oh boy. "OMG anteater dick freaking women out" v. "OMG how dare you MUTILATE your children."

Both sides get pretty stupid about an issue which is mostly cosmetic and religion/tradition-based.
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LOL @ "anteater dick"...amazingly, I had not heard that one before and it is now going into my brain bank.

I think it's more than cosmetic religion/tradition based. It was/is largely thought of as the more hygienic option too, though that notion has been reduced in recent years.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
LOL @ "anteater dick"...amazingly, I had not heard that one before and it is now going into my brain bank.

I think it's more than cosmetic religion/tradition based. It was/is largely thought of as the more hygienic option too, though that notion has been reduced in recent years.
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That notion has been reduced largely because there is little to no scientific evidence to support that viewpoint.
 
ChicdeaC said:
That notion has been reduced largely because there is little to no scientific evidence to support that viewpoint.
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Sounds like you're not circumcised. Not from Sierra Leone, huh?
 
ChicdeaC said:
That notion has been reduced largely because there is little to no scientific evidence to support that viewpoint.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday announced its first major shift on circumcision in more than a decade, concluding that the health benefits of the procedure clearly outweigh any risks.

"There is clear evidence that supports the health benefits of circumcision," said Susan Blank, who led the 14-member task force that formulated the new policy being published in the journal Pediatrics.

The statement, and accompanying technical report, marks the first revision of the organization's position since 1999, when the academy backed away from circumcision. At that time, the group, which represents about 60,000 pediatricians nationwide, concluded that there was no clear evidence for or against circumcising newborns. The group affirmed that position in 2005.

Since then, the popularity of circumcision in the United States has declined. Only about 56 percent of newborn males are circumcised.

The academy's task force spent seven years combing through the latest research, analyzing more than a thousand studies. Their conclusion?

For starters, Blank says, circumcision helps baby boys pretty much immediately.

"The health benefits of male circumcision include a drop in the risk of urinary tract infection in the first year of life by up to 90 percent," she says.

But there's a much bigger reason to do it, Blank said. Circumcised males are far less likely to get infected with a long list of sexually transmitted diseases.

"It drops the risk of heterosexual HIV acquisition by about 60 percent. It drops the risk of human papillomavirus [HPV], herpes virus and other infectious genital ulcers," she says.

It also reduces the chances that men will spread HPV to their wives and girlfriends, protecting them from getting cervical cancer.

"We've reviewed the data and, you know, we have gone through them with a fine-tooth comb, and the data are pretty convincing," she says.
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The AAP disagrees.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...cide-boys-are-better-off-circumcised-than-not

As does the CDC.

http://www.today.com/news/circumcision-benefits-outweigh-risks-cdc-says-1D80331010
 
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bojanglefunk said:
The AAP disagrees.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...cide-boys-are-better-off-circumcised-than-not

As does the CDC.

http://www.today.com/news/circumcision-benefits-outweigh-risks-cdc-says-1D80331010
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I buy that the UTI data may be hygienic but for me there's a difference between medical reasons (The STD data presented above) and hygiene reasons which is what I was addressing. And I will also admit it's been more than 4 years since I did the research on the issue.
 
ChicdeaC said:
I buy that the UTI data may be hygienic but for me there's a difference between medical reasons (The STD data presented above) and hygiene reasons which is what I was addressing. And I will also admit it's been more than 4 years since I did the research on the issue.
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Gotcha, yeah I was actually surprised too when we did the research (~6 months ago) because I remember to movement away from it being considered cleaner and/or healthier and didn't realize the flip back.
 
bojanglefunk said:
Gotcha, yeah I was actually surprised too when we did the research (~6 months ago) because I remember to movement away from it being considered cleaner and/or healthier and didn't realize the flip back.
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Although, I have reviewed some of those STD studies and it's almost impossible to remove confounding factors from a study that involves adult behavior in order to definitively say one way or the other that the issue is circumcision. The thing that surprised me most in the whole research was that many insurance companies won't cover it (considering it cosmetic surgery) and that the surgery is usually (I read/was told "almost always") performed by the OB and not a pediatrician.
 
ChicdeaC said:
Although, I have reviewed some of those STD studies and it's almost impossible to remove confounding factors from a study that involves adult behavior in order to definitively say one way or the other that the issue is circumcision. The thing that surprised me most in the whole research was that many insurance companies won't cover it (considering it cosmetic surgery) and that the surgery is usually (I read/was told "almost always") performed by the OB and not a pediatrician.
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Yeah the OB surprised me at first too, but I guess it makes sense. They are trained to do them and are surgeons, so in some ways it makes more sense.
 
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I've never seen an OB do a circumcision. My experience is that it's typically done by a pediatrician, family doctor, or urologist.
It eliminates phimosis, para phimosis, and circumcised men don't get penile cancer ..
I don't have a son but if I did I'd have a urologist circumcise him.
 
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