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Old 12-31-2007   #23 (permalink)
dxjnorto
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No medical association on earth recommends routine circumcision, but for reasons unknown, probably mostly to do with the profit motive, many doctors still perform them. Circumcision is almost never necessary, you don't need a doctor to tell you that. Because it's such an odd thing to do, there is plenty of writing about it, not only on the WWW, but books available. Opinions for whatever reason are so polarized - mostly cut guys arguing on these threads. Intact guys know they have nothing to prove and nothing to gain by getting involved.

The only two indications for circ that I am aware of are balanitis xerotica obliterans and severe foreskin injury, but even in those two cases, the surgery can be done conservatively so as to leave as much of the penis as possible. No I am no medical doctor, but I know as much about the penis as many of them and more than some. Doctors have to specialize in disease, so they treat everything with that medical model. Urologists in the U.S. are mostly cut, because most men of the age of sexual maturity in the U.S. are currently cut, so they have no personal experience of the intact penis. Besides, urologists mostly deal with kidney stones and prostates.