As for the religious aspect, I find starvation for a month (aka Ramadan) and priesthood celibacy appalling as well. Not to mention religious-based homophobia. Hardly traditions that need to be carried on.

If the child when an adult wants to have it done for religious cosmetic cultural or std reasons or any other then thats their choice which should be supported. But till they are sexually active this std reason is balderdash so it’s not a reason to perform surgery which can still go badly wrong on tiny babies without consent and which they may as an adult regret had been done to them. And people leave religions they grow up in all the time whether changing faiths or going to atheism etc. So religious circumcision is still child abuse as the child may one-day leave that faith.

Let the children choose when adults! In all cases!

Female genital mutilation is outlawed in nearly all countries now (and so it should continue to be) – now why are young male babies still to this day subject to this cruel and barbaric practice!!!!!

Now I fully acknowledge that it is religious, but a lot of this is purely based on “religious practice” – but have they considered that 1 in every 100 male babies that go and get circumcised die from the practice??????

Or is that because they are men and “real men” get circumcised – just like their fathers were?????

I find ear piercings a good look. I wouldn’t force them on infants, though.

I’ve never turned away a cute cut guy but I personally think circumcised looks a lot better and I’ve seen quite a few men who were badly scarred by their circumcision.

Unless washing daily and changing your clothes is a challenge for you it’s not difficult to keep clean.

To put things in perspective the number of non-injecting heterosexuals with HIV in Australia is 0.2 percent.

So if we went back to where everyone did it we’d be circumcising 500 non-consenting infants for every heterosexual who forgets to wear a condom and catches HIV, and even then they’d still have to wear a condom to get full protection.

It would be far more ethical (and probably cheaper) to just educate heterosexuals more about HIV and other STIs which the Government does practically nothing on once they leave high school.

If anything we should be banning it from being done to kids – if people want to get circumcised when they’re adults, fine, but don’t foist a decision like that on a child that they then have to live with for the rest of their lives.

I don’t understand why people are against circumcision, it makes “it” look better, and it’s clean and way easier to manage!

I think people take the whole circumcision thing to heart becuase lets be frank, no man likes to be told that their wee wee comes second best to another mans wee wee.

Hear hear on the body parts!

I also find this form of genital mutilation repugnant and am amazed it is considered normal in some circles. Why not chop off other bits of the human body to avoid infections?

If Wodak, Cooper, and Morris were promoting a condom with a 40% failure rate, they would be laughed out of the room.