Do you think being circumcised is mutilation?

i think it should be illegal if its not medically essential

It's clearly less awful than "female circumcision" but interfering with a baby's genitals when it's not a medical necessity is clearly abusive.

I'm circumcised and it doesn't bother me any.

I hear there are issues of cleanliness if left uncircumcised and I'm glad I don't have to think about that.

I was circumcised as a baby and i love my dick...a loose piece of skin that was cut off is no skin off my nose! pardon the pun...I promise you that I have a super sex life, my dicks head is as tough as a buffalo's hide, and I would out last most uncircumcised men whilst doing the deed! Thank you Daddy!

The only instance where circumcision (of both sexes) is okay is when a grown man or woman willingly undergoes it. In any other situation it is mutilation as well as child abuse.

Yes. Holding a little child down to cut off a part of their natural body while they cry and could make the decision if they wanted to later in life, is mutilation in my eyes.

You don't think so? Would you consider female circumcision mutilation? If yes, then unless you're a sexist douche, you should see male circumcision the same, if no, well, then you're pretty much a double douche.

I would call it "modification" rather than mutilation. People pierce their bodies and get tattoos and all that (which serve no medical purpose). I am American so I may have been raised to believe its the normal thing, but I have known people who had to get it done at an older age because of medical problems and it is certainly NOT. It should be either done as a baby or not. Its not the same as female circumcision which is done strictly for misogynist reasons and is often performed in unsanitary conditions when the girl is 4-8 years old and traumatic.

I was circumcised as a kid & certainly don't feel that I was abused or I'm missing out on anything (except obviously some skin)
I prefer it, although I obviously have nothing to compare to...

Was something to do with health reasons, I dunno, was too young to remember it, but if it was a necessary thing I'd rather it as a kid than an adult.
Whether I would get my own kids chopped is a different story...

Everything you do towards another human being without their consent is mutilation and should be frowned upon and illegal ...

A penis is SUPPOSED to have foreskin.

If you do it without consent, it's mutilation. Unless not doing it would result in immediate death or something, which is highly unlikely.

Do I consider cutting off part of a little baby's penis to be mutilation?

Why yes. Yes I do.

No, my definition of "mutiliation" is quite a bit more extreme than circumcision. Circumcision, in a vast majority of cases, doesn't actually change your life in any meaningful way. I also don't think it's child abuse because the child isn't being abused.

People overreact pretty hard to this, and that makes it hard for me to support their cause. I was circumcised and my life wasn't ruined, there were no "complications", I don't hate my parents, I have no desire to get it back, and I'm plenty sensitive.

Basically, people throwing around the word "mutiliation" on this subject pisses me off. It doesn't fit and it's not applicable. The word conjures up actually-serious injuries and life-changing events. Not the cutting of a redundant piece of skin.

To be clear, I'm NOT saying it's a good practice. It's just not mutilation.

The girls that I've talked to enjoy a circumcised penis because they look normal to them

The roots of circumcision are found in religion. Another reason why I hate religion and why im growing my foreskin back.

Yes

Here's a list of complications:
http://newborns.stanford.edu/CircComplications.html

I don't see how it's mutilation- it's prevents you from getting diseases and is more comfortable once u get used to it. Don't need to circumcise a person if they hardly have any foreskin though.

it's good hygiene. you can grow some nasty stuff under foreskin.

They should make that shit illegal.

Lol at the poll. Must be a lot of turtle necks on this site.

I've seen this discussion brought up on other forums before. I've noticed the only people who seem to have a strong opinion on the subject are almost exclusively uncut guys.

Why did you delete a completely reasonable conversation...?