Where are all the intact boys? - Page 4

[Brina]

two intact in a northshore suburb of chicago. unfortunately, in a distinct minority in our immediate area. not long ago we lived closer to northwestern university and it was far more common for kids to be intact - combination of students and professors from all over the world and a decidedly more liberal outlook than in our current neighborhood, just 15 minutes away.

[kelley03]

My intact boy is in his first year of college....what a trip that was, taking a boy out of the hospital intact back then! (Im in western NC)
All of my nephews are cut....makes me so very sad.
Kelley

[~Jenna~]

I've got my 2 in NC. My nephew unfortunately is cut Most of the people I hang around with leave their boys intact.

[maxam67]

intact boys

Including my husband, there are 4 in my house, here in Chicago (very midwest). :LOL

[ashjulimom]

One in OK, nursing on my lap!

I have 3 friends with 3 sons each (6 boys in OK and 3 in TX) -- all circ'd. My cousin's 4 also.

My sister is an ob in AZ and she told me it was cosmetic surgery with no real reason to do it -- and then circ'd her baby! I nearly cried for the poor thing! She said that there, it's becoming an income thing since Medicaid and the low income health program won't pay for it....

Kristin, mom to dd#1 (5), dd#2 (3), ds#1 (10 months)

[PancakeGoddess]

Mandy, you live in *dayton*

I'm 15 minutes away in crunchy Yellow Springs - we've got whole penises here!

[laurdsed]

Here in Madison, it's fairly common to see intact boys. My guess is it's at least 50/50 around here, but I really don't have any data to back that up. It's a liberal area around here. My three sons are all intact, so we can add them to the count!

Laurel

[jgc920]

we have an intact little man here in central VA. most of my friends have left their boys intact as well, although we did have one friend circ their little boy who was born in sept. what an odd sight it was to see his penis, after being so used to my son's! my nephew (who is 10) was circ'd, but the town i grew up in (where they live) is pretty mainstream...

[m0mto3]

There are 2 intact boys and 1 intact daddy at my house

[BiniB]

I have to say I don't know anyone else who decided to leave their sons intact, either...although DH is intact & I'm assuming the rest of his side of family is. Come to find out after having DS#1, that my own father is intact. Too much information for me but Grandpa seems very proud of that!

I have had people ask me how long the circ took to heal after I had DS#1 - and actually look at me like I had 10 heads when I said we chose not to do that. : I didn't realize we were so strange! LOL!

Robin
Bobby - 3/1/2002
Andy - 5/1/2005

[mysterygrl]

"All" of my baby boy is sleeping in Sarasota, FL! I finally met another intact baby boy last friday. He was the first. Daddy is all there but that's not what influenced my decision. I just think it's the right thing to do.

My girlfriend is jewish and she had two boys. She invited me to the "brist" of her second. A brist is a "celebration" when the baby is, I think, a week old in which they circ him in the home and it is done by a special jewish, I can't remember what he is called, person. I said I had to work. There was no way I could be present and listen to that when I was due any day with my DS. On top of it all they took him to a specialist last week because he has scar tissue and has gotten a UTI.

[tiafit]

2 here in so. cal. extened family 1 cousin intact one circ. as for close friends it is about 30%intact / 70% circ. . honestly shocked that people still do it. my friend who has 2 girls and is jewish once said she would hate to circ her boy but would do it to make her dad happy.What????!!! i was preg at the time and not totaly firm in my intact choice. crazy logic cutting your boy to make dad happy ??? i think there are so many other things that will please a grandpa.

[JustVanessa]

I only know of 2 circed boys in my little mountain town, and they are 10 and 9 (same dad). All the other boys I know of aren't cut including mine and dh. It is not covered by our medical here and doctors don't even ask you if you want it done....you have to ask them. I know my doctor personally won't do it. Guess we are all a little crunchy up here in Smithers, BC Canada

[jillc512]

One more intact boy in ND! Thanks to a family I nannied for (didn't circ their boys 13 and 7 years ago -- very progressive for ND I think), and my sister in FL who had her baby boy first and didn't circ. All of my co-workers and my in-laws cut their boys .

I wish I would have done more to talk them out of it. Their arguments for it were pretty vague. One actually said that she heard circ'ing lessened pleasure, which would be a good thing if her son was anything like his father?!! What the...

[KSlager]

I have 3 whole boys - 12 years old, 11 years old and our pleasant surprise 7 month old!

Through the years of being a mom, I've found that almost all the sons of moms I've met through LLL and more "natural family" type circles have kept their sons intact.

However, in more "unnatural family" circles (for lack of a better definition - you know, the parents that just do what they're told and not what their hearts tell them) like at church, neighbors and the general public have had their boys cut and the sad thing is they don't have a reason for it! No thought even given to what has been done to their little boys!

I don't understand ignorance. :

~ Kris ~
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[Journey]

I have no idea where they all are! I was an assistant at TWO different daycares here in Western New York state. I also babysat several different little boys. My son has the only uncirc'd penis I've ever seen IRL! EVER!

I've only heard of 3 men in my area being circ'd. Yeah, it's big news around here when somebody finds out a man isn't cut!

[maigheach]

Originally Posted by My2Matthews

Well... there is AT LEAST one intact boy here in Tennessee!

mine is.... <G> only one i know, though....

[3littlebirds]

i see a good number of intact boys -- including my own -- but i live in san francisco. i'm sure there's a higher percentage than many other cities/towns.

[lawgrrl]

Let's see... there's one intact little guy upstairs asleep (my son); one down the street at work (my husband); one down the block (friend's son); one down the road (friend's son); a whole gaggle of them in a friend's playgroup and several in my La Leche League group ... Come to think of it, I don't think I actually personally know a single little fellow who was chopped except for one of my cousin's children (from Utah). Hip Hip Hoorah for Carrboro/Chapel Hill, North Carolina !!!

[DavinaT]

Posting from Ireland:
I was absolutely SHOCKED and HORRIFIED to discover that this preactice was carried out so freely and without (from what I can see) reason, in the U.S.
Here in Ireland Doctors do not carry out medical procedures (because that is what it is) on babies or children without medical reason.
When I assisted at communty daycare (as a volunteer whren I was younger) I only ever saw one circ'ed baby.
This was carried out due to phimosis.
As far as I know, phimosis and ballinitis (relatively rare) are the only two conditions for which doctors here will circ a boy.
My friends hubbie had a partial circ as an adult due to an overtight foreskin which suffered repeated (painful) spilits and scarring.
But apart from those two, all the males I know here, are intact.

My cousin tho' is married to a U.S. man of the jewish faith and he is circ'ed.
His Mom's argument for it (I could not get my head around this!!!) was
- Why should boys not have to go thru circumcision; their mothers have to go thru childbirth -
I was too stunned to reply!!