It's a tough decision that every American mother of a baby boy has to make: to circumcise or not circumcise? Opponents claim that it's akin to mutilation. Proponents cite studies showing the health benefits of circumcision. Still others have strong cultural ties to the procedure. Daphne Brogdon of Cool Mom asks the panelists, "What do you think about circumcision?"


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bwankel
2 days ago
Not wrong. Just completely unnecessary and antiquated. If you want to do it for cultural reasons, fine. This is America. Go for it. But just because you want him to look like the other boys in the locker room? No. (By the way, about half of the little boys born right now are not, so no one's going to care.)
 
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2 days ago
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eident9
4 weeks ago
At any rate I hope the admin group does in fact re-install our posts of the last 5 months. People putting so much time into the matter, and then all our posts were deleted. A lot of us men standing up about how much we've had it with this abuse (abusive parents and doctors cutting up our reproductive organs against our will, and yet same parents and doctors probably decrying child abuse per se).
 
eident9
3 weeks ago
Waited, and clearly while they said they weren't censoring they've not restored the posts. Funny how the women who run this site demand respect from men but don't give it. And that Alice Bradley bitch can take a flyin leap for her casual child abuse (based on video)... you want respect for females but you're happy to carve up a baby boy's privates.. freak.
 
andreas.biebl
4 weeks ago
This is one of the more controversial topics in Pediatrics today. The American Academy of Pediatrics, in their most recent Circumcision Policy Statement, concluded that 'data are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision' and that 'parents should determine what is in the best interest of the child'. Since the statement didn't really come out for or against circumcision, it left many parents still asking the question, 'Should I have my son circumcised?'
 
eident9
4 weeks ago
Were it YOUR body, would you really think it's rightfully up to your parents, when this is YOUR body and the only one you've got from cradle to grave? If the American Academy of Pediatrics said parents should determine whether or not to cut up little girls' labia and clitoral prepuces, would you really be asking "Should I have my daughter mutilated?" Little boys' bodies are no less respectable than little girls'. Our bodies are not yours to cut, but many take advantage to the situation and do this to us when we can't defend ourselves.
 
Loqi
2 months ago
I see many men commenting here who feel harmed by having been cut as children. I see no men here who feel harmed by not having beet cut as children. Perhaps such men exist, but there's a simple solution to their dilemma. It comes off anytime, but it never goes back on.
 
WitchMom
2 months ago
Circumcision is indeed wrong. It is genital mutilation on non-consenting parties. It is medically unnecessary and NO medical or health organization recommends it. Period. There were false studies for a while stating that it might reduce STDs, but those were proven false. It does reduce sensation, and there is plenty of empirical evidence that shows it. It is not as horrific as FGM that removes the whole clitoris, but it is horrific. I am soooooo glad that I did the research when I found out I was having a son. I didn't know any of the above information before that- as I have no brothers and most of the men that I've has as sexual partners were uncircumcised. I didn't know what they were missing and neither did they. Since then, I have met many uncircumcised men and uncircumcised ones that are angry about what does done to alter their bodies as infants. And I have learned that the vast majority of the world (80-90%)_ does not do this to their babies and you need to get written permission to have it done- it's not automatic, nor is it a tacked on service when you are at the hospital. It is taken seriously and you must have compelling reasons to want to do such a thing.
 
eident9
2 months ago
WitchMom thanks for standing against. I need to add something here... you said "It does reduce sensation, and there is plenty of empirical evidence that shows it. It is not as horrific as FGM that removes the whole clitoris, but it is horrific." Re clitoris I'm guessing you see the sensitivity analog as the male glans. It's true the glans is very sensitive, but we have the most sensitivity in the frenum, which is often partially or totally removed in circumcision. And even if that were left intact, uncircumcised men make it abundantly clear that the inner foreskin is also a huge part of their sexual sensitivity. Anyway like I said these are parts people are and have been tearing out of us. But there's another component and please try to understand (and I mean very respectfully I'm just trying to fill you in), aside from the major nerve damage done to us they also take, in mechanical terms, the skin needed for what the male body must do when it has it's sexual state. Not only are people removing our sensation in a way that women can't know (and I can't know what women feel), but they're removing our ability to have a normal sexual state without pain or at very least discomfort. It's amazingly obvious to any man who goes through sexual arousal, that the lack of skin needed for a comfortable transition to that state isn't there anymore. And you're right too, and I agree that, FGM is horrific. So is MGM. I can tell by your screen name you're a badass woman that's strong as hell and trust me, you're appreciated and respected for standing up when most just go along.
 
eident9
2 months ago
sorry, correction: "It's amazingly obvious to any man who goes through sexual arousal, that the *skin* needed for a comfortable transition to that state isn't there anymore."
 

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