Comments on: Is tattooing a child worse than piercing ears, circumcision?

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:28:02 +0000

I challenge ANYONE to do a google video search on “circumcision procedure”, watch the whole video, and then tell me it’s not cruel and barbaric. LISTEN to the infant choking on his own screams and tell me it’s not cruel and barbaric. Witness the calloused doctor, scraping foreskin from the glans while it is still connected by living tissue, crimping and scissoring living skin, feeding the skin up through a bell clamp and slicing it off with a scalpel WITHOUT anesthesia and tell me it’s not cruel and barbaric. The penis is meant to be an internal organ. It requires no special cleaning during infancy because the foreskin is connected to the glans (head) until 5-14 years of age. By then I’m sure the boy can learn to pull back his skin and clean himself. The claims of cleanliness and disease prevention are totally exaggerated or fabricated. Do the research. Save our children from any form of body modification they have no choice in. They trust their parents to do right by them. Don’t betray that trust.

By: anarchist

anarchist — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:40:47 +0000

for all the well trained & hearded sheep who responded to this article in serverely uneducated and presumptuous ways…there is ABSOLUTELY NOOOO health benefit to circumsission…it merely allows mothers 2 b lazier about cleaning their sons & men 2 b lazier about cleaning their penis. & if someones ears are pierced @ a young age the holes do not close…they are permenant!!!! its about choice. boys should be allowed to choose if they want their foreskin…& everyone should be able to decide on their own if they want earrings or tattos…their parents should not decide for them!!!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:38:34 +0000

What does it take to get the moderators to pass a post thru? I have submitted the same post twice and it has not been passed thru. Is there some magical incantation I need to use?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:07:34 +0000

hi im 11 and want to get a piercing in my left ear. but my mom and dad wont let me. there are guys in my school that are 8 and 9 and have ears pierced. so its ok for them but not me. its not fair.

By: ontheboat

ontheboat — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:29:45 +0000

Sirius,

you forgot to mention piercing ear which is as worse as tattooing or cutting hair. I do agree circumcision is different because it cures you from AIDS, syphillis, penile cancer, infections, STDs, deafness, masturbation, dyspepsia, hernia, nervous exhaustion, and diarrhea.

By: Sirius

Sirius — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:25:59 +0000

Circumcision prevents vulvar cancer. Removing the useless clitoral hood and redundant labia improves hygiene. An uncircumcised vulva looks weird and smells atrocious with its foul smegma. It’s a parental right to circumcise your son or daughter. There’s no medical study proving that uncircumcised women have better sexual sensation, and if it were really harmful it would have died out centuries ago: it’s *women* who do the cutting, so they would know.

Labiaplasty – read circumcision – is now the third most common cosmetic surgery chosen by women in the U.S. Why not do it in the neonatal period when the pain won’t be remembered? Sex is better, men like it, and it’s the healthy thing to do.

HOwever, if you tattoo your child, well, you should be thrown in prison. There’s no right to tattoo a non-consenting minor.

By: ontheboat

ontheboat — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:11:27 +0000

Circumcision isn’t medical procedure at all, it’s cosmetic surgery. No medical organizations in the world recommends circ.
Cutting off the most erogenous part of your body to prevent a few problems that circumcision may solve is insane.

By: Thaddeus B.

Thaddeus B. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:42:01 +0000

Okay…all of you people are wack!! No one should be tattooing their babies-that is just wrong. Pierced ears, c’mon what is wrong with that? They close up and they’re gonna get them done anyway, and to who said it was white trash…you are white trash my dear-pure ignorance with a bufont and aquanet okay. As for circumcision, it should not even be in this field…it is a medical procedure not a cosmetic addition. There are a slew of men who will tell you they are uncircumsized and that you should have your babies cirumsized.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:07:48 +0000

“Have you ever thought that the euphemism for circumcision might be “male genital mutilation”?”

Actually circumcision is a euphemism for male genital mutilation the same as it is for female genital mutilation..

By: Nandi

Nandi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:32:56 +0000

Did you know that in cultures that “circumcise” girls they do it for tradition, to look like mommy, to keep it cleaner, because a husband won’t marry a girl who is not “circumcised.” In the US we call this female genital mutilation and banned it in 1996. However, we feel it is perfectly acceptable to “circumcise” baby boys so they will follow tradition, look like daddy, keep clean, and because girls won’t have sex with a boy that has all the foreskin he was born with. Does anyone see any similarities between this? http://www.circumstitions.com/FGMvsMGM.html
Have you ever thought that the euphemism for circumcision might be “male genital mutilation”? Amputation of a functional body part?