The debate over circumcision strikes me as one of those arguments
where first you come to a decision, then you pull together all
supporting/refuting evidence. Those who oppose circumcision wave
around reasons like number of nerve endings lost in the surgery,
personal decision, barbary. Those who really want their sons to undergo
the surgery trot out reasons like tradition, appearance, decrease in
AIDS/STDs, penile cancer and so on.
So surely each of us parents
of sons have rattling around in the backs of our minds the what-ifs and
buyer's remorse of how we treated the days-old baby's foreskin.
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