To circumcise or not to circumcise?

[Losty]

Okay, fair enough.

I would still consider this a very inadequate reason, but clearly you value it much higher.

How far would you take this to make your child fit in with other fads? What if other weird unecessary surgeries became common?

I already think circumcising to help your kid fit in or prevent bullying is just silly.

But I still think it's relevant to add that I am almost 27 years old now, I went to more than one school in both Ohio and Georgia and even all the way back then kids did not get naked in lockerooms together. And those big group showers are only in some prisons and fictional movies. The idea that our sons are going to be looking at each other's penises is a bit ridiculous. In the school where I work, they don't even have girls and boys restrooms. There's a hallway with stalls on each side and sinks in the middle so each child uses the restroom in private and then can be supervised for the hand washing process.

Yes, we should raise our kids knowing that everyone is a little bit different and that is ok. We should teach them to be confident in their bodies. But also, we should stop pretending like our boys are just hanging around comparing penises. By the time they're old enough to care about doing that they'll also be old enough to know that some people have been circumcised and some have not and to have been taught that they have no reason to be concerned about that.