The moment has finally come where Jane had undergone twenty-seven hours of labor and had given birth to a beautiful baby boy. An awe-struck Jack was trying to keep his Bambi-like legs from giving out on him as he was still digesting the events that had transpired in front of him. After several minutes, Dr. Mike walked in to check on the new parents. “Are you guys going to have him circumcised?”. Circumcision is one of the most common procedures in any hospital and one of the most controversial decisions parents make. The decision maker to have infant males circumcised is arguable. Should the child be forced to wait until he is of age to consent the procedure? Should the parents or the legal guardians of the baby continue to have the right and responsibility to make that decision for him? Male circumcision that is performed for any reason other than physical clinical need is termed non-therapeutic (or sometimes “ritual”) circumcision. Some people ask for non-therapeutic circumcision for …show more content…
Most of the fathers how are circumcised agree that they are normal circumcised guys and they want their sons to be normal too. They believe that their sons should look like them and they also feel like circumcision is not only expect from women, but it’s part of being a man as well. Those who have been circumcised but who are not going to have their sons go through it say that they feel pain once and a while from the scars of circumcision and it pains them to have sex. Others say that their circumcisions are the cause of their erectile dysfunction (ED) and impotency. Same sex male couples who have one partner who is and one partner who isn’t circumcised say that the one who isn’t circumcised has more pleasure with their sexual experiences than the one who did get circumcised.