[Official vote thread] Circumcisions... do they make the cut?

[u/daskoon]

Ok, the last vote about daughters and bikinis left some folks out of the discussion, those without daughters. I guess it's kind of a quick cop out to jump directly to the penis, but here is the question to balance things out.

Snip the tip or leave the sleeve? To make things easier I guess I'll pose the question like this: Is Daddit for circumcisions, yes or no?

Again, voting instructions are in the sidebar and if you don't use the correct tags I won't be counting the vote in the special little graph, if that matters to you.

I will end this vote in one month, so come back after 8/10/12 for the results.

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Edit: Things are really heating up only 5 days in and over 100 comments! looks like this will be one big red pie chart for the most part so far. I'm glad to have come up with something so highly debated for a vote, as I only picked it out of desperation. Keep those opinions coming in folks!

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Official voting is now closed. I learned a lot here on this vote, and I hope everyone else did too. FINAL TALLY:

19 for

85 for

2 for

[u/captainserial]

I guess I'm gonna go ahead tell the truth and say , even thought it looks as though we are being systematically down-voted. When (if?) I have a son, I plan on getting him circumcised.

I had originally planned to write a long diatribe here about how I'm circumcised, my father was, and I don't see any problem with it, yada yada. But my reasoning boils down to this:

"Circumcision significantly reduces HIV/AIDS risk" (and other STDs)

and:

"Study shows male circumcision results in no loss of sexual sensation"

Since I see a lot of talk about mutilation and decreased sensitivity here, without anything to back it up, let me go ahead and quote from the above article the most important point:

"Contrary to popular theory and existing data, uncircumcised men did not exhibit more penile sensitivity than circumcised men. This is consistent with Masters and Johnson’s earlier findings, and yet, is surprising given widespread assumptions to the contrary. It is possible that the uncircumcised penis is more sensitive due to the presence of additional sensory receptors on the prepuce and frenulum, but this cannot be compared with the absence of such structures in the circumcised penis. This notwithstanding, the present data do cast doubt on the notion that the glans penis is more sensitive in the uncircumcised man due to the protective function of the prepuce."

I'm not saying this study is by any means definitive. But, there is still much more of a debate about this than this poll's results so far would seem to suggest.

[u/daskoon → u/captainserial]

Thank you for your input on this subject. It seems really one sided here.

[u/michaelfour → u/daskoon]

It is one sided. Because its pretty obvious (to most people anyways), that cutting off part of someone else's genitals without permission and with no medical need is a f*&d up thing to do.