To circumcise or not to circumcise?

[Losty]

Umm...there's a huge difference between cutting hair which is painless and it grows back and cutting genitals which is not painless and is doesn't grow back. Also, it's understandable for your mother to want your hair to look however she thinks is nice...I don't understand why she would want your penis to look nice.

Can't answer for all the other mothers out there, but to me personally it's for the same reasons as everything else. 

If I lived in a country where no one got it done, I wouldn't get my son's done, either, because in that case it wouldn't matter. But it's much more common than not here in the US and I wouldn't want my son to feel insecure or embarrassed about his penis looking different from the other boys'. As I said, if I was a dude (assuming I'd be living in the US), I would hope my parents would do that for me while I was a baby. But to each their own. Not saying anyone is a bad mom for not doing it to their kid. We each do what we think is best for our own child.

Yes, I sat through several nurses and a doctor giving me this reasoning. My son is 6 as of now he's never noticed his penis being different. Generally in America boys don't hang out naked together. We don't even have locker room nudity anymore.

I don't think any parents circumcise their kids out of cruelty. I do think many do it out of ignorance. The pushing in Medical fields, that does piss me off. They literally lie to you and tell you all this bullshit about foreskin being unhygienic and causing cancer. It's not true. It's not supported by science. I can't figure out why the hell they're pushing it.

All that being said, circumcision is not nearly as common in the US as it used to be. Many insurance companies won't cover it. I hope is dies out altogether.