60 minutes tonight

I think it is 60 minitues (or 20/20 can't remember), but tonight at 8.30 on 3 it has a thing on circumcision the for and against

On now!

I only caught the last half of that piece, but it seemed a little one-sided ie. don't do it. I think the Rabbi of Auckland came across as a bit of a moron and he could have been far more articulate on his side of the debate, but overall the tone of the piece was pretty biased towards the anti-circumcision campaign.

I definitely couldn't do it, I just couldn't watch someone do that to my (hypothetical) boy! But it's a very personal decision to each family.

I didn't think it was a great article for either side, the guy who was anti was a bit woo woo I thought (who comes up with elastic and a film cannister to grow back your foreskin??). But I agree, it was more anti than balanced. The most striking thing about it for me was watching the wee baby get circumcised, made me not ever want to put any of my babies through that.

Interesting argument about female circumcision. Is it any different? Ugh, just thinking about it makes me shudder. There's such an outcry about it being mutilation, what is different to male circumcision?

LOL Mazzy I thought that guy was a bit woo-woo too, but then again, he is a parliamentary researcher so that in itself suggests he is socially challenged!

Willie and I discussed it when I was pregnant with the gremlins and had they been boys we would have had them circumcised. He's done and doesn't have any 'manhood' issues about it, and both my brothers, my dad etc. are all done (not that I'm looking LOL I just know they are!) so it's just 'normal' to me. But then we had all girls so thankfully we don't have to worry about that decision, we just get the whole teenage contraception thing instead

i couldn't do it to my boy either and felt sorry for poor lachlan i just don't see any benefits in doing it. each to their own i guess

ARGH!!! I just typed out a huge ranty reply and it vanished! Is the censoring lock on tonight? lol

Anyways - I was saying that I believe both male and female circumcision is barbaric and can't see how it's ok when carried out on a boy in a sterile Dr's practice but not when done in the desert with a blade and a stone on a girl?!?!?

DH is very much FOR, I'm 110% against and refused totally to have anyone do that to my child. IMO "cleanliness" (DH's excuse) is not reason enough!

One of the big deciding factors for me is that when I was younger the boy across the road had to be circumcised for medical reasons when he was about 13 and I'll never forget seeing him hardly able to walk for days afterwards. I didn't understand what was going on at the time, but now I think it would be far better to have it done as a minor procedure as a baby than under general anaesthetic at a much older age.

Check out this link that someone posted on another thread about circumcision http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/circumcision/protect-uncircson.html
I am totally against it and couldn't watch that boy getting it done. I think it is barbaric to circumcise a baby without any anaesthetic and after reading the above article I would be inclined to not do it even if I am told there is a "medical" reason for it.

i just had to say... you dont have to chop out armpits, just get rid of the salt that you produce by absorbing it with crystals or something i think you call it smellies or deoderant. Maybe washing your baby will help, but remeber washing too much could also lead to skin disorders...