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Originally Posted by perspective  Umm, neither actually. To me it just always seemed weird, and once I actually thought about it, everyday logic told me that it was dumb.
Unless you have been somewhat "brainwashed" to believe that there is something wrong with the foreskin, the idea of being against infant circumcision is just the default, and the obvious choice.
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This was me. I grew up in south Alabama. The first I knew of circumcision was when my baby brother was born. The first time I watched mom change his diaper I was horrified. I asked her why his penis looked so gross. She tried to explain circumcision but all she knew was that everyone did it. It ALWAYS struck me as wrong. I never thought about it again until I was pregnant at 17. I was terrified of having a boy because I didn't want to circumcise him and at the time I was led to believe that it was what you had to do. I didn't know there was a choice. I had visions of sneaking my newborn out of the hospital before they could hack off part of his penis. I had a girl though. When I was married and we were pregnant with our 2nd I brought it up to dh. I knew at that point I had a choice. Dh said of course we'll have him circumcised. Before I could argue with him we discovered we were having a girl. We had 2 more girls before getting pregnant with our first boy. I immediately began pulling all the info I could find about circumcision. My dh is a very reasonable person. As soon as he read the info he was totally and completely against circumcision. We now have 3 intact sons and my dh in spite of being a major introvert never fails to speak out against circumcision to his friends who are expecting sons.
