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[mrs_ladybug]

So, I was reading in the pregnancy community and one of the frequent and highly volatile subjects came up yet again- Male Circumcision. Female circ' would be even worse obviously. However, it irritates me. I understand that their are pro people, anti people and people like me who are pro-choice. There are people on every side who have and have not

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[jessikanesis]

I personally am for male circumcision (well actually i'm pro choice, but i think i'd do it if I had a son), even though I'm not pregant or a mother. All the men in my family have had it done, and none of them regret it. Also it's kosher, which is kind of important to me, but again, that's bringing religion into it.
My main concern is that I have a history of getting keloid scars, and I've heard horror stories (and seen pictures) of little boys who are circumcised at birth and by age six have a huge scar-growth on their penis that makes it not even resemble a penis anymore. Basically they were permanently disfigured by the scar of their circumcision, and it terrifies me that I could pass on a gene to my son that could make that happen.

[jessikanesis]

damn now i'm all involved. see what you made me do? :-P

http://community.livejournal.com/pregnant/8891242.html?thread=107441770#t107534698

[mrs_ladybug]

I've heard of that too. I've also heard of nipple confusion and that is way more frequent and frequently tempted. *shrug* I've seem more than my fair share of sausage, cut and uncut, I've seen uncut that were basically swallowed by too much skin and cut that looked weird but it's really rare. Hey, this is the price you pay for having all guy friends growing up, heh. Basically, if you have a decent doctor, there should be no problem. However, if you have a gene problem, then you want to be careful...are you sure that it would only happen if he was cut?

[jessikanesis]

Well a keloid is a scar which keeps adding tissue even way after the wound is healed, to the point where it looks like you have a hideous tumor. So if you don't get injured, you don't get keloids, no matter your genes.

[mrs_ladybug]

I suppose. That would be a good reason for you not to have your son(s) circumcised. Ya know and if he every had to explain to his friends why he is uncut- some mom's worry about this. Then he has a "cool" reason. I mean young boys find gross out humor funny so pictures of rampant scar tissue probably count. That is a more complicated problem though since boys are bound to hurt themselves in a million little ways anyway but why make it worse, huh.

[jessikanesis]

Well I figure by the time he's old enough to have to explain his penis to other people (high school locker room, first sweetheart, whatever), he's probably going to have a keloid or two somewhere else by that time anyway. I have two on my left arm, two on my right shoulder, and one on my back, all of which I got before age 18. So then basically he could just point to one of them and go, "It would be like this, but on my johnson." Or whatever he chooses to call it. I hope I never know. ;-D

Anyway, the asthetic part of the pee-pee keloid isn't the main issue. Some really extreme cases made it so the boy couldn't sit right or even urinate, so he had to be castrated. Now THAT is not worth staying kosher for.

Oh screw it, I'll just adopt. Stupid DNA...

[mrs_ladybug]

I agree that if you don't want to do it and it's not important to you then you shouldn't do it. But I really think the keloid issue is a better reason to be hesitant because sometimes a doctor fucks up. Honestly, we'd none of us ever go to the doctor if that were the case. Right? I just don't want you to balance this whole issue on the rare worst case scenarios, they should be considered but you have a valid reason without worrying about all that hon!