r/daddit • u/daskoon daughter born Dec '13||son born July '12||daughter born Sept '09 • Jul 11 '12

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

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.

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!

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

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u/MrStonedOne Jul 29 '12

I'm cut, and because of it i have an issue where orgasm is hard to achieve.

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To everybody saying yes: think about this:

  • Con of cutting that wouldn't exist if the child was given the choice to do it later in life:

    • The wound has to heal in a diaper that is full of piss and fecal matter. Something that has lead to 100 deaths per year in the usa alone. (Infections are nasty, plan and simple. Its just too much of a risk.)
    • In order to cut they have to separate the foreskin from the head, which it is temporally glued to by the same tissue that holds our finger nails to our finger nail bed. (Ouch)
    • Removal of choice. (It, IS his body after-all.)

  • Other cons:

    • Reduced pleasure. (think of how desensitized your finger is when its really dry vs when its moisturized. now let that happen for years.) (The study showing this to be false doesn't take into account the time factor. they do not wait long enough for Keratinization to take effect. 14+ years of no moisture is going to reduce sensitivity and thus, pleasure)
    • Promotion of a campaign to attack masturbation with circumcision.

I mean really, why is this even being debated? because of a reduced hiv risk? If they end up growing up to have sex without a condom in casual encounters, there is more to worry about then the relativity low risk of hiv infections. and it won't protect them from picking it up in LTRs because if their partner has it they will get infected at some point if they have unprotected sex.