Is there any ridiculous claim anti-circumcision activists won't make?

See the lists of bad reasons for circumcising (circumstitions) and absurd claims about the foreskin and circumcision (circumsurdities).

I'm all for changing trends and educating people about circumcision. What i'm not for is categorizing people as barbaric because they do this. There are plenty of people who are happy with a lack of foreskin who wouldnt change a thing. I used to think having large breasts was a desire of every woman, i was wrong. Many love having small breasts and the practicality it allows. If i liked having b-cups and degraded everyone who was for getting implants i'd be a nut. The renowned Anti-circ people are militant, rude, hateful and try to scare everyone into believing what they do. I see them no differently than the people who go on talkshows telling everyone about how all implants are bad because their silicone implant leaked and "possibly" caused their autoimmune disorders.

Militant people of any kind piss me off. They insist their way is only way. They never see exceptions to their rule and pull out their propaganda when someone brings up complications of an intact penis. They aren't very likable people to be around. They tend to be "glass half empty" types who blame all on the lack of foreskin and encourage other men to feel like shit for liking being cut or encourage them to feel depressed if they are bothered by being cut. They want everyone to be miserable and to wallow on this mantra all for the sake of "educating" everyone against infant circumcision.

The truth is they are truly miserable people who have found a niche, memorized all the possible horrible outcomes and use their own sexual/psychosexual and self esteem problems and trace them back to their RIC. They discount anyones firsthand account of enjoying their sex life in spite of no foreskin because this would ruin their agenda.

Instead of convincing people by saying "its perfectly good tissue, dont cut it off" they go into scare tactics and their best comebacks are "well the cut guys just dont know any better"

It's a source of contention among many members here and if you look around for 5 seconds you will see that people all over this planet are tired of the same people with the same referrals to the one and only fanatical anti circumcision website. All nuts refer to that website and i've read it myself and its like reading the horrors of any procedure by the people who are 100% against it at all costs.

Mlle R thinks she is being funny, but would anybody here deny that a lot of a man's self-esteem seems to reside in his penis? And if someone becomes aware that a significant part of his penis has been CUT OFF without his consent, and he would have preferred otherwise, is it surprising if it impacts on his self-esteem?

Poor analogy. If little girls routinely had their breasts surgically reduced at birth [I imagine there are buds there whose removal would prevent growth later - if not, make that "reduced at puberty"] at parental whim, I think Mlle R might get militant about it.


The movement has its share of loose cannons, but they are on the fringes.

I'm unfamiliar with that website. What's the URL?

All reasons, all opinions, all choices, all cuts or naught, it is a practice worldwide that will always and forever occure.

There was a time I felt a little (adjective or verb) for my missing tissue, I think it was October 17 1983 from 2:12pm- 2:13 pm.

I just wanna know what they do with it after it's removed?

anyone..anyone?

I base my healthy opinion on males by those i know in real life and i've asked a lot of them about how they feel about being cut and they are pretty content with orgasms without much effort that they never think of it. Maybe i just attract people who arent depressive whiners.

It's almost unknown in South America, Scandinavia and non-Muslim Asia, and it's fallen to residual levels in the English-speaking world, outside the US.

One thing they do is turn it into cosmetics. The vast majority in the US are incinerated with the rest of the surgical offal.

To the original poster: don't start a thread belittling people for making ridiculous claims when you do not cite a one. It makes your ridiculous point even more ridiculous.

It's claimed that they make cosmetics (mostly face creams) out of them, but hospitals and private practices report that they dispose of them the same way they would dispose any other removed tissue: in the dumpster.

You, mi dame, are my hero- ine

Well put...

Virtually every claim made by the anti-circ folks is baseless, exaggerated, or outright and knowing lies.

Why is it that its always those who want to control OTHER people's behavoir who are so morally slippery about lying to achieve their ends? ( i'm looking at YOU, intelligent designers)

It DOES reduce HIV transmission in heterosexuals.
It DOES reduce transmission of other STDs ( the reason it was so widely adopted in the US was as a counter measure to syphillis... guess what... it worked )

It IS being promoted in Sub saharan Africa by the World health Organization.


Really, boys... give it up...

Its FINE if you're happy with your flappy dick tips.

Let me be fine with my crew cut.


And if you're cut... and whining about it cause you can't get over what was taken from you... then you might as well have the rest cut off if you can't act like a man.

Face creams? Great....i'm cock-eyed.

Circumcision causes global warming....excuse me while I go LAUGH MY ASS OFF for the rest of the night.

Yeah, exaggeration is bad.

I don't lie. Why can't you see that being against infant circumcsion is exactly in line with your view that others should have control over their own bodies?
It does not. This has not been proven. The results of the 3 random *controlled* trials in Africa have not borne out in any real-world setting.
It certainly may be true that less skin reduces the possibility for germs to attack that skin, just like pulling your teeth would prevent tooth decay, but that's not how we fight disease, EXCEPT in the case in the case of healthy infant foreskin. Very odd. Infants don't even have sex.
For ADULTS to consider, and it's a terrible idea. Ask anyone in line at the circumcision clinic why they're doing it, and they'll tell so they don't have to worry about using condoms. (Which is nonsense; the cut men in the Africa trials contracted HIV at a rate six times higher than the rate of new infections for African-American men).
I'm delighted for you, but you're missing something, and you had the basic human right to decide if it would be amputated, and if so, in what fashion.

Foreskin feels REALLY good.
I'd say a real man stands up and demands his rights, and fights for the welfare of his fellow man.

A real man will not be called a second class citizen just because he has a penis. He deserves equal protection under the law. Female genital cutting - even forms much less harmful than any circumcision - is illegal for 94% of the world's population.