BACK in 2008, Andew Lye (inset) questioned why religious circumcision of children was necessary if God “made man in his own image”. In a short piece he wrote he said: For the record, I …
I must admit my opinion on this topic has changed hearing the arguments. I still think that getting medical advice from the internet is a really bad idea.
Basically there is no reason for the vast vast majority of people to remove the foreskin of their children. If you are one in a thousand or so parents who has a child with a damaged foreskin at birth and the doctor recommends removal go ahead, otherwise don’t. One of my nephews had that issue and the doc said straight off to my brother that there wasn’t any other good options. He was going to be circumcised or die of an infection one day.
I must admit my opinion on this topic has changed hearing the arguments. I still think that getting medical advice from the internet is a really bad idea.
Basically there is no reason for the vast vast majority of people to remove the foreskin of their children. If you are one in a thousand or so parents who has a child with a damaged foreskin at birth and the doctor recommends removal go ahead, otherwise don’t. One of my nephews had that issue and the doc said straight off to my brother that there wasn’t any other good options. He was going to be circumcised or die of an infection one day.