no i wouldn’t mutilate my child! this should not be happening anymore! it is not hard to have a shower and practise good hygiene, right?

Wasn’t this guy eventually proven to be not so much of an expert? My son isn’t circumcised and has had no issues

I have one son circumcised and not the other. I just had to make sure that I cleaned extra carefully around the tip of my uncircumcised sons’ penis.

This research does not seem to be in line with other research.

This was very interesting, thank you.

My son is not circumcised. It’s something I asked my Gyno/OB and he showed disinterest, and wouldn’t do it. I wasn’t requesting it, more asking questions in case I had a baby boy – my first child. My husband is circumcised, and I believe it was the done thing back then. It seems to not happen now, but there’s also a lack of education. It’s not something that is even discussed.

Cut parents – cut their kids.
(Boys AND girls)
The only reason non jewish and muslim parents in Australia make the \’decision\’ to cut their son… is because daddy\’s cut :/ sad, but true. Let\’s be harshly honest with ourselves.
My dad was cut, it was a miracle I was left intact. If I was cut, I\’d probably cut my son. Fortunately the generational genital mutilation cycle has stopped in my family and many other families. However it still continues for a small and declining number of non Muslim/Jew parents.
This article is misleading. Brian Morris is a fraud and a very, very sad man, trying to justify what happened to him as a defenceless infant by campaigning for it to again be inflicted on all infants.
I urge all parents to look at:
-intactamerica.com
-sexthewaynatureintendedit.com.au
-Bloodstainedmenandtheirfriends.com.au

My husband nor my boy are circumcised and never had problems ! I never new that over their lifetime more than one in two uncircumcised males will suffer an adverse medical condition caused by their foreskin !! That is a very high rate !

I possibly depends whether the boy maintains good hygiene after being taught how to do it when he becomes independent. Having to have surgery as an older child must be very uncomfortable. Slight deformaties are sometimes a contributing factor.

Like you, mine are not circumcised and have never had any problems. Guess it depends on how you teach them to bathe themselves as well, but touch wood they have never had problems and they are very grown up now.

I just wanted to add that my first hubby was circumcised & my second isn’t. It doesn’t make any difference to me as the foreskin retracts when they have an erection anyway. So it wouldn’t feel any different for them either

I had my boys in the 80’s when it was very controversial. I educated myself & decided to have them circumcised. I felt it was my right as a parent to make these kinds of decisions. As it turned out my younger son needed to be done for medical reasons but we didn’t know that until the procedure was carried out. My oldest son has grown up in swimming pool change rooms & I once asked him if it bothered him as boys muck around in change rooms in different stage of dress. His reply was NO what do you think we do check each other out LOL

Strange to see this topic. I dont have friends who have done this with their sons… but the article states everything opposite to what i’ve heard.

I only have daughters so its not something that i ever had to worry about. A friend had to have her son circumcised when he was 3yrs old for medical reasons and it was sad for the poor little fella but the discomfort didnt last long and then all was well.

I am surprised at this article and the conclusion of the research as it seems to be the opposite of everything else I have read on this topic. I am always interested in the researchers and their focus groups and the accreditation process for research.

my eldest son had to be circumcised at 8 years old due to medical problems luckily my youngest two haven’t needed it

This “expert” Brian Morris is so out of touch with the entirety of the Sydney University that they do NOT employ him. That’s what “Emeritus” means- no longer employed by. Sydney University have had to take legal action against his claiming to be affiliated with them.
Moreover-
Morris is NOT a pediatrician.
Morris is NOT a surgeon.
Morris is NOT a urologist.
Morris is NOT even a GP.
Morris has NOT EVER treated ANY PATIENT, much less their genitals, much less infant children.
Morris has NOT run ANY studies or tests. All he does is report on the work of others then review it himself.

He has ZERO qualifications and he is a laughing stock of the Australian Medical Industry.

This is the worst journalism to portray him as any kind of authority.

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  • • cherz replied
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  Very interesting ..thank you for your report/comment.

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    • • mom227070 replied
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    Spot on.
    Brian Morris is a sad man.
    A very sad old cut creep.

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    • • mom81879 replied
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    Which is why it’s a bit distressing to see articles like these on MoMs. Parenting is confusing enough without publishing half truths like this.
    My partner is circumcised, his mum was very vocal in getting my son done when he was born. I didn’t. He’s 27 this year and no issues whatsoever. My nephew had to be circumcised at age 3 for medical reasons. My brother in law had to have one at age 30 for the same reason. He suffered! All I thought was imagine making your baby suffer like that 🙁

Please don’t cut your sons. There is so much information out there now. My son hates me for having this done to him. He is suffering psychologically. He describes sex as seeing the world in black and white and feels he will never see it in colour. I wish I was given more information and wish I had researched it more. There was no internet in 1989. My brother had the procedure done when he was 7yrs old. I didn’t want my son to go through it at an older age. My sons father was circumcised and he was not against it and never expressed any psychological or physical side effects from being cut.Not a day goes by that I don’t feel such great sorrow and guilt for making the worst decision of my life. I pray that one day my son will forgive me. Please please don’t do it.

“No risk of infants and children getting infections under the foreskin” an infants foreskin is fused to the head of the penis until about 7 years of age so they should not be able to get infections under the foreskin at this age unless some idiot tears the foreskin away from the penile head.
As for UTIs males almost never get them anyway.
Then STIs, well my son will learn about safe sex and hygiene to lower that.
” the foreskin seems to protect the head of the penis” that’s because that is exactly what the foreskin does.
“painful intercourse for the man’s sexual partner” TESTIFY, without a foreskin there is unnecessary friction (even with lube and foreplay), the sliding of the foreskin over itself during sex causes extra pleasurable sensations for the man and almost friction-less gliding for the woman.
scars from circumcision can be nasty looking, on the other side of things my partner had his foreskin torn during a sexual accident so he has a tiny scar from that.
bottom line the foreskin has a purpose and unless medically necessary I will not be letting anyone perform a procedure on his penis, the same as no one will perform surgery on my daughters genitals without a medical cause.