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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:15 pm
I picked NO, because I feel it's not my place to make or impose such decisions based on my own personal preferences. I'd let my baby decide and support his choice when he is of age to make his own informed decision.
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Hell. no! It's barbarism and has no place in the modern world.
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:17 pm
Cutting off a part of a baby's genitals seems disgusting and morally repugnant to me so no I didn't do it to my kid.
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:17 pm
My mom liked guys with scarred faces because she thought it looks better that way .... glad they took the broken bottle off her before she bottle fed me
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:18 pm
(June 10, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (June 10, 2016 at 1:10 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Why would you be in favour of male genital mutilation?
You Americans are barbaric!
Because it looks better that way. Don't you think?
I'm British and it's is not a thing over here, we are all as nature intended (except the people with a medical need I suppose).
I've never seen a cut one outside of porn and to me it looks wrong. Like a woman with her nipples cut off would, the absence jars.
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:21 pm
(June 10, 2016 at 1:18 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: (June 10, 2016 at 1:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Because it looks better that way. Don't you think?
I'm British and it's is not a thing over here, we are all as nature intended (except the people with a medical need I suppose).
I've never seen a cut one outside of porn and to me it looks wrong. Like a woman with her nipples cut off would, the absence jars.
I'm originally from Brazil. Moved to the US when I was 7 with the rest of the immediate family. None of my brothers are circumcised and neither is my dad, because it's not a thing in our culture either.
But my husband is American and is circumcised. So perhaps I'm biased but I hate the look of an uncut penis lol. No offense to anyone. Just personal preference.
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:25 pm
I'm curious if you condone all elective surgeries to make kids more aesthetically pleasing? Like... would you choose a nose job if you hated your baby's nose?
I seriously have always wondered this. It seems the genitals are the only socially acceptable place to do plastic surgery on a baby. It creeps me out a little bit tbh.
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:27 pm
It kinda creeps me out that a mom would care about what her son's penis looks like, and would want it to be 'aesthetically pleasing'
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:27 pm
(June 10, 2016 at 1:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (June 10, 2016 at 1:18 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I'm British and it's is not a thing over here, we are all as nature intended (except the people with a medical need I suppose).
I've never seen a cut one outside of porn and to me it looks wrong. Like a woman with her nipples cut off would, the absence jars.
I'm originally from Brazil. Moved to the US when I was 7 with the rest of the immediate family. None of my brothers are circumcised and neither is my dad, because it's not a thing in our culture either.
But my husband is American and is circumcised. So perhaps I'm biased but I hate the look of an uncut penis lol. No offense to anyone. Just personal preference.
It is an unrequired, quite major cosmetic procedure you are thinking of inflicting on a minor without its consent. If the kid wants a cut Pee Pee when its old enough to make that decision then he should get it done, the same as deciding to get a piercing or tattoo. But it should be his choice not yours.
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RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 10, 2016 at 1:28 pm
No. Hell no. Fuck no. Why in the name of all the sewers of Valhalla would I opt to slice a portion of my newborn son's cock off? It's his dick, he can do with the damn thing as he pleases when he gets older.
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