I don't understand the hygiene argument - Page 2

[AFWife]

Originally Posted by MommytoB

Plus, when parents circ their boys they sometimes do have to push back their remaining foreskins because how easier junk gets caught in there and believe me I changed plenty of those kids even when wiping you could see stuff hanging out from the remnants and your going how in the world does a kid get fuzz or lint kind of stuff in there ? Also, sometimes parents have to push/pull back the foreskin remants if it's trying to attach on the scar or attaching in someway to prevent the kid from peeing (not referring to meatal stenosis at that point)

Plus to wipe off tiny specks of feces with a wet wipe is not an easy task you would have much better luck with a wash cloth and how easy those feces are to end up in the exposed meatus hole.

So, in truth they think it's easier on the kid but wait until the kid gets older and has skin bridges one guy on one website said he has a hard time cleaning smegma underneathing his skinbridge depthness of deep as bellybutton but blocked by skin .

If they left the kid alone they would know all they had to do is go okay he has a foreskin -no worries and we will worry about it when it needs to be worried about etc .

My son is circ'd (the next one won't be!) and I can tell you that cleaning is a huge PITA. Even without a bad skinbridge (and he does have one...I didn't realize it until he was 3 months) all sorts of stuff does get caught in there. ANd yes, I was told by my inlaws that I had to push it back with each diaper change (once it "healed") to ensure it didn't reattach. Apparently, SIL's youngest had to have his redone because it reattached at some point.

Originally Posted by Fyrestorm

These complications aren't reported as possible complications though..When parents are giving 'consent' these things are never mentioned. If they happen, men are not told this was done to them on purpose or that it had anything to do with their surgery. It's not counted in statistics...it just is 'normal' male developement

I was told that "deformity" was a risk...but not given details. They kind of just shoved a form at me and quickly listed off all of the "risks" and ran out of the room...

Originally Posted by MeAndVee

And back in I believe the Victiorian era, I could be wrong, woman were discouraged from wearing restricing garments {like panties}. Why you may ask? Because it would restrict air flow and the vulva would rot.

TMI, but I'm prone to yeast infections and stopped regularly wearing panties several years back because it was the only thing the helped...I only wear them on rare occasions (didn't you need to know that? lol) but yeah, airflow is important...

[benj]

I think it's just that people are ignorant of what they're not used to. It's an easy answer to justify circumcision with "it's easier to clean." Cleanliness is desirable, etc. But I had issues where I wouldn't shower for weeks (read: drug addiction) and I never had smegma even then. I actually don't think there's a significant difference in care. An intact male will clean his penis just as he cleans any other part of his body. Wow, this post makes no sense.