To circumcise or not to circumcise?

[robvalue]

Sure, yeah. But if they can't give any kind of decent justification, I'm not going to be impressed. I will assume they are projecting themselves onto the child and then rationalising after the fact. I don't consider "I like how my dick looks" to be adequate justification for surgically altering someone else's dick without their consent.

Not that they are accountable to me personally of course. I'm just saying how I would evaluate a parenting decision.

Rob, what you have to understand is that  a circumcised penis is the norm in America. You don't want your child to be the kid with the weird dick in the locker room or cause any type of awkward sexual situations for them down the road. So for parents in America its not as easy as saying well he can do it when he's an adult, there are things parents are considering beyond religion or medical reasons.

From what people have said, it's no longer the norm and is on the decline.

But even if it were, I don't agree that performing this surgery is adequately justified by trying to prevent a bit of bullying. Kids will find any reason to bully people. Kids are going to be different to each other in all sorts of ways, and I don't think this is significant. The greater issue here would be giving people some privacy so they're not inspecting each other's dicks. Myself and plenty of others got bullied relentlessly, for no particular reason at all besides people got a kick out of it.

If you think this is adequate justification, then fair enough.

This is only my personal experience, but I've seen circumcised dicks quite a few times. Never once has anyone been bullied because of it, even though others could see them too and the opportunity was there. They were the only ones with such a dick, in each case. Yet it made no difference. (This is a reversal of the described scenario.)

Also, statistically it seems unlikely a kid will be the only uncircumcised kid in a class; especially if you're making the choice right now, which is the matter at hand. In fact, it may swing the other way by the time it becomes an issue.