Re: Why do Men get Circumcised?
Sigh.
Circumcision is genital mutilation enacted on a person who cannot consent.
Circumcision greatly reduces nerve endings, and causes scarring of the penis. Every single male who has been circumcised has a penis covered in scar tissue. Boys are born with their foreskin, which does not fully retract until age 5 or even later. It serves its purpose to protect the mucusoid tissue underneath. The tissue on under the foreskin on a penis is exactly the same as the tissue under your eyelid. Compare that to the tissue of a circumcised penis. It's very apparent that the penis has been scarred.
Studies has also shown that comparing circumcised men in the USA with HIV to uncircumcised men in Africa with HIV, there is no case that truly proves that circumcision prevents HIV.
Regarding hygiene, teach your children to clean themselves properly. Hence, no issues.
Now concerning the ethics of this.
1. It's an invasive procedure done on an individual who cannot consent. YOUR rights end where my skin begins.
2. It does not prevent nor cure any disease. It is purely aesthetic and cultural on those grounds.
3. Any doctor who performs this operation is in direct violation of their oath to harm none.
4. Circumcision offers the ultimate betrayal to the bonding process of a child. It interrupts irreversibly the bonding process between child and parent. A parent is supposed to protect their child from harm, yet they offer up the child to even more harm.
5. It's a common misconception that babies feel less pain than adults because their nerve endings aren't fully developed. In fact, babies feel MORE.
6. It gives the child it's first genital experience, which is one of pain, violation, and terror. It offers a terrifying blueprint forever stamped in the mind of the developing child that it's penis first gave it pain.
7. You cannot give a pain killer to a child during such an operation.
8. You take away that child's right to it's bodily integrity. The only reason so many people accept it, it's because it's done so much. If you were told that FGM reduced HIV and STD's, (which it probably does), does that make it acceptable to mutilate a woman as well?
9. It's MUTILATION. Case closed.
10. I have yet to see a reference in the Quran telling us to betray and mutilate our children. Please present it to me.
Circumcision is pointless and harmful. If a man chooses later in life to become circumcised, that's his full, consenting, educated choice. However, it is not anyone's right to do this to anyone else.