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Originally Posted by JayJamJah
Ignorant Opinion, you can do better
Here's what the experts advise
From Health.Discovery.com
While the American Academy of Pediatrics doesn't consider circumcision to be medically necessary, there are some medical reasons for performing one. Those include preventing recurring infections of the head of the penis, avoiding obstruction of urine flow that can result when the prepuce's opening narrows, and preventing a tight prepuce from retracting over the glans. Also, circumcision may reduce the incidence of penile cancer (a very rare condition).
Even barring these considerations, infections, including urinary tract infections in infants, are less common in a circumcised penis. That's because a circumcised penis is easier to keep clean. (By pulling back the uncircumcised foreskin and cleaning carefully, a man can reduce the formation of smegma, a cottage cheese-like substance that can lead to a foul odor and infection).
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There is much more to this than medical discussion. We're talking about a social decision that will affect the child's sex life. There is nothing harmful or wrong about leaving the skin there. On the other hand the foreskin enhances sex, and removing it desensitizes the head of the penis. Furthermore, it isn't like they couldn't get it snipped during adulthood where it would be far more costly to attach foreskin, and I'm not even sure if you could resensitize the penis.