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AvPPoW
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: NJ
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sort-of. I'm circumcised but I have more foreskin than most.
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Apr-09-2004 14:22
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NeoPhono
Übermensch

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: In Orbit
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I am, and I've yet to find a reason why it would be better not to be. Infants and children who are uncircumcised are much more likey to develop infection, as are the elderly. For men our age it really doesn't matter, but at either end of life there are marked advantages to not having a foreskin.
Then there's also phimosis, paraphimosis, balantitis, balanoposthitis, frenular chordee and the associated psychological sequelae that I will never have to worry about.
Some fun facts:
-95% of urinary tract infections in young boys happen in the uncircumcised.
-Uncircumcised men have 9 times the risk of aquiring syphilis, 3 times the risk of gonorrhea and 2 times the risk of aquiring herpes from an infected partner.
-The risk of an uncircumcised man getting penile cancer is 1 in 50,000. For a circumcised man that risk is 1 in 12,000,000.
-Uncircumcised men have twice the rate of prostate cancer.
I could go on and on...if you want to look it up. Go here.
http://www.circinfo.net/#benefits
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Apr-09-2004 14:35
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Fast Turtle
Runs Quick

Registered: Nov 2001
Location: At The Party House HP: 9302
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| quote: | Originally posted by NeoPhono
I am, and I've yet to find a reason why it would be better not to be. Infants and children who are uncircumcised are much more likey to develop infection, as are the elderly. For men our age it really doesn't matter, but at either end of life there are marked advantages to not having a foreskin.
Then there's also phimosis, paraphimosis, balantitis, balanoposthitis, frenular chordee and the associated psychological sequelae that I will never have to worry about.
Some fun facts:
-95% of urinary tract infections in young boys happen in the uncircumcised.
-Uncircumcised men have 9 times the risk of aquiring syphilis, 3 times the risk of gonorrhea and 2 times the risk of aquiring herpes from an infected partner.
-The risk of an uncircumcised man getting penile cancer is 1 in 50,000. For a circumcised man that risk is 1 in 12,000,000.
-Uncircumcised men have twice the rate of prostate cancer.
I could go on and on...if you want to look it up. Go here.
http://www.circinfo.net/#benefits |
A lot of the research into complications and infections was done and redone and in the end, the APA says that as far as costs and benefits to the child, they both tend to even out.
As for the prostate cancer, that's controversial. Penile cancer is so rare it doesn't really matter anyway.
I know someone with phimosis too, and he's yet to have a problem with infection or sex or anything in his whole life.
What I'm surprised they didn't mention is HIV, which your likeliness of getting is reduced several fold...but why are you having unsafe sex anyway? Edit: ah wait, they did
Thread's been done to death though...I think it should be up to the adult male later in his life if he wants to get circumcised or not, when he can sit and think things through and decide if he wants it.
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you win again dude - and nice move shoving the whole i figured out how to order pizza thing in my face. i tried that 4 and a half months ago and woke up with a Taiwanese transvestite but to Ygrene it's just, "anoother day in the life, noooo biggieee".
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Apr-09-2004 15:35
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DigiNut
You kids get off my lawn!

Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto, Self-proclaimed Centre of the Universe
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Apr-09-2004 15:42
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