How to talk to your parents about why I was Circumcised?

I am circumcised and never once thought twice about it. As a matter of fact I was in my teens before I knew there was any other way. My sons are also circumcised and never said anything about it. My oldest said that he doesn't like the way an uncircumcised one looks and that was it during the "talk", and we never discussed it again. If he kept obsessing about why is healthy functioning penis was circumcised at birth I would be seriously concerned about his mental health. I have said it before, I think as a parent I have and will make way more important decisions for my sons than circ or not circ. For instance, the woman I chose to be their mother, where they go to school, what type of medical treatment they receive, what type of health insurance they have, how much money to invest for their future, the type of friends they can and cannot hang out with, how they are disciplined etc. My oldest son will start high school next year and there is a choice of 3 to choose from. We have discussed it with him but in the end it will be my and his mother's decision not his. Even if they weren't circed as babies and the issue came up now it would still be their PARENTS decision to do it or not regardless of how old they are until they are 18 have their own insurance and or money.

Yeah... forget about it and get over it!

Doctors routinely circumcized male children for a long time- they told your parents it was in your best interest, all the other little boys were being circumcised, you don't want to stick out in gym class... its healthier...

they told them all kinds of thing... including its not a big deal...
and you know what? its not a big deal.

Either you have dick issues, or, more likely , you have parent issues.

But either way, just leave it alone...
Your parents did the best they could with the information at hand...

Sounds to me like you just want an excuse for making them feel guilty.


Seriously... the tip of your dick is not the axel on which the world turns.

..they CUT you? you suggest you "might" CUT them down the road...see what they think about that?

Stupid Damian. Restoration is barely the equivalent of a bandaid on the millions of infant circs performed every year. How you going to change anything if you don't start talking about it? Babies can't protect themselves. Since so many people are fixated on their normal healthy genitals for reasons of culture and because they need to feel good about their own truncated genitals, yes, we have a long way to go in correcting that, starting with talking about it.

CURVEDANDTHICKK,

If one of your sons came to you and said that he wished you would have let him make that decision for himself, what would you say to him? Would you dismiss his concerns as trivial?

I know a lot of guys that i consider "normal" guys, they have no issues that i am aware of, but do not agree with there parents decision.

I don't think it's the fact that they are cut that is the problem, it is that something was done to them they had no control over and no say in.

You don't say!

I had to be cut as an adult for phimosis and I so wish my parents had done it when I was an infant and my dick meant nothing to me.

The hysteria over the topic still baffles me though. It's not that we're talking about Lobotomy / No Lobotomy!

I don't think Americans realise just how morally shocking their acceptance of routine infant circumcision seems to most in Britain and Europe. As a parent you have the right and obligation to make a whole lot of decisions for your children, of varying degrees of importance. But usually you do not have to make a decision on circumcision as it is rarely medically necessary, and few cultures truly require it. The needless circumcision of a child is very hard to justify. In Britain it is discouraged. We're not yet at the stage of making it illegal, but it will pretty surely come as the human rights act is applied by our courts. Children suing their parents for circumcising them is not a nice prospect, but probably that too will come.

Dxj
Of the thousands and thousands of circumcisions done each year not just in the usa but also in the middle east africa and asia many of the circumcised guys won't even give their circumcision status a second thought. The guys on lpsg who spend all their time moaning wingeing playing the victim ranting at their parents and blaming all their ills on being circumcised have self worth and parent relationship issues but are in a minority in the wider world. Most people don't focus all their rage on being circumcised


UOTE=dxjnorto;1351699]Stupid Damian. Restoration is barely the equivalent of a bandaid on the millions of infant circs performed every year. How you going to change anything if you don't start talking about it? Babies can't protect themselves. Since so many people are fixated on their normal healthy genitals for reasons of culture and because they need to feel good about their own truncated genitals, yes, we have a long way to go in correcting that, starting with talking about it.[/quote]