I'd say ask the doctor if your son has excess foreskin, if so 'nip the tip'. If the foreskin 'normal' then I dont see the need as long as good hygiene is practiced/taught.

No, its a barbaric and antiquated practise. And what do you mean by your child will be ridiculed? Who will he be showing his penis to at a young age? That shouldn't be a problem until hes ready to have a girlfriend and most girls don't care much about it.

I'm not american and uncut is the norm around here, but felt like trhowing my two cents on a couple of points.

First, as you mentioned only around 60% of newborns are being circuncised nowadays. Messages of bodily autonomy, acceptance, etc are on the high (even thoguh yes, mental disorders also are, as someone mentioned earlier). Current macro-politics aside, I would wager this is a trend that'll extend through his youth. So yeah, maybe he eventually gets poked fun at, but it'll probably be less likely and possibly tend to be less of a deal then than it would have been back in your puberty. And, I mean, if he's gonna have body image issues (really hope he doesn't of course, those suck : p), I doubt the simple lack of a little skin is really gonna be enough to change that.

Other than that, not to get into some slippery slope fallacy, but is this a kind of care that you could possibly extend to your general upbringin of him in any justifiable, healthy and sane way? Also, yeah, it is cosmetic. Do you feel like having your baby go through cosmetic surgery for something like this would transmit a messege, hell even a lesson you believe is right or healthy for you son, let alone the culture or general discourse?

If a girl would reject your son (which I doubt, I don’t think American girls are that shallow) later on because she doesn’t like the look of his thing, she probably doesn’t deserve him anyway so I wouldn’t be scared about that.

EDIT: Also, the easier to clean argument is strange. That’s like saying it’s better to pull out my teeth because I’ll have to brush them...

I'm surprised at all the "no" responses in this thread. Being an American it's still a pretty common practice. I gotta say it's a bit of a bummer reading some of these comments as a circumcised male lol. I've started to feel a bit bummed about it actually over the recent years of reading more and more about how the pros far outweigh the cons of being uncircumcised, when in the last decade and prior, most of what I had heard way essentially reversed. Too bad I can't "reverse" what's already been done :/

It's even a bit more insult to injury to me as I have heard it's largely done (at least in my neck of the woods) as a Christian/Catholic "tradition" more so than any precieved health benefits and I'm quite firmly anti-religious..

But yeah, it's still a pretty common thing in the US (though I sense this is starting to change now that religion isn't as prominent and more information is out there). Even now to a degree, here in the US you're typically considered a bit strange or at least "different" if you're uncircumcised, and I've heard of a lot of women saying it looks strange to them.

I have to say though..

(INCOMING GROSS STORY, if you're easily squeamish you may not want to read)

..I did sort of rethink my envy of uncircumcised a bit when a good friend of mine (uncircumcised - he told me this btw, we're not "that way" lol) - but anyway he told me a rather stomach-churning tale about some of his skin getting .. erm "ripped" and bleeding pretty roughly at the top of his penis when having sex with his girlfriend.

The both of them should go to the doctor and get a proper check-up cause there is something severely wrong with one of them

Probably a piercing

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The use of child is referring to offspring...not to a young kid. And I've heard how girls talk about uncut penises. Most girls probably won't care, but many do think it's nasty compared to circumcised penises, at least in American culture.

I don't know many of the details and I wasn't about to ask as I didn't really want to know myself haha. But I do know he got it looked at and dealt with after a particularly embarrassing trip to the doctor.