Here is an impressive list of reasons why some people circumcise their sons!!!
Which one you find the funniest??
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Conformity
? Because "a boy should look like his father"
? Because all the nice families are having it done.
? Because it is a cultural norm.
Medical
? To prevent or cure alcoholism, arthritic hips, asthma, balanitis, blindness, boils, cervical cancer, chicken pox, epididymitis, epilepsy, gallstones, gout, headaches, hernia, HIV, hydrocephaly, hydrocoele, hypertension, insanity, kidney disease, kleptomaina, leprosy, moral depravity, paraphimosis, penile cancer, plague, phimosis, posthitis, prostate cancer, rectal prolapse, rheumatism, schistosoma, spinal curvature, stomach infection, tuberculosis, urinary tract infections and/or yeast infections.
Religious
? To draw down the Divine light, bring down the soul of holiness into the body...
? Because it is a good Christian thing to do.
? Because Mohammed was "born circumcised".
? Because a baboon the Egyptians considered sacred is "born circumcised".
Sexual
? Because his mother and her friends prefer circumcised men for sexual pleasure.
? Because it enhances sensitivity.
? Because it reduces sensitivity.
Aesthetic
? Because it makes it uniformly pink.
? Because it makes the penis look more modern
Irrational
? Because the foreskin will fall off if a baby is put into a hot tub of water for a bath.
? Because it only seems natural.
? To prevent "psychological trauma due to castration anxiety".
Instructive
? To teach him that the world is a painful place.
Submission
? Because his master ordered it.
Pre-emptive
? Because it will have to be done sooner or later.
? To benefit someone else
? To provide collagen for cosmetic surgery on lips and cheeks.
Cleanliness
? To stop him dribbling when he pees.
Control
? "Because [my sister's] doctor said having his glans exposed would help calm him down a little".
Revenge
? Because his mother had an episiotomy. ("I was cut, why shouldn't he be?")
Financial
? Because a military surgeon "wanted to get back into practice because she could get $100 apiece for them in private practice."
Initiation
? To prepare him to receive tribal secrets.
? To separate him from his mother.
Non-conformity
? Because he belongs to the upper class.
? Because "I kind of think it is 'American'... in the early years of this great nation, we took pride in BEING DIFFERENT than other nations".
Concealment
? To pass as a Muslim.
Punitive
? To spite his absent/divorced father.
? To get even for having been raped as a teenager.
Symbolic
? To make the penis look like that of a kangaroo.
Status
? Because he will be prevented from speaking in public if his (Samoan) father is intact.
? "If you ain't circumcised, you ain't shit."
? Because he's an orphan.
Reproductive
? To prevent infertility.
Reward
? To use his foreskin for a dowry.
? In exchange for not having to change his diapers.
Convenience
? Because "we just do it. It's better this way." (to a man being operated on for kidney stones)
? Because he is under anaesthetic already for another operation.
? Because his mother was having another baby, so they could go in together.
Iatrogenic
? To treat paraphimosis caused by improper insertion of a catheter.
Ignorance
? To make his penis bigger.
? "...to protect the boy or man from the psychological trauma of an abnormally small penis"
? Because it's a law.
? Because his mother had never seen an intact penis and thought it was deformed.
Mistake
? Because of an "accident on medical records..." According to the "paperwork guidelines, I was not supposed to be Circ."
Pity
? Because the father "just didn't want to argue with her after she'd been through all that suffering."
Prudery
? Because his mother thought that cleaning him was too much like masturbating him.
Sympathetic Magic
? To give him the appearance of permanent arousal.
? To remove the female element from him.
Vague
? "She's not even clear on [it]. She just wants it, you know."
? "
thought [he] might as well be circ'd."
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Refrence: http://www.circumstitions.com/Stitions.html
Topic: MGM: Male Genital Mutilation (not the Motion Picture Company!!!)