Let us take this step by step.
Is it OK to cut bits of babies? Tips of ears, ends of toes, tips of noses? End of tongues?
Is it OK to tattoo babies?
Foot binding?
Stretching necks?
Is the foreskin just a bit of skin? (Go to site for more info)
http://www.circumstitions.com/Functions.html20 Functions of the Foreskin
This list is intended to be exhaustive (including all functions, no matter how trivial, just as the most trivial of reasons to circumcise is taken seriously), in descending order of importance in each section.
Sexual
1
Erotic pleasure, especially via the ridged band and Meissner's corpuscles
2
Acts as a rolling bearing in intercourse and masturbation
3
Prevents dyspareunia (painful intercourse)
4
Stimulates partner's genitalia, giving erotic pleasure
5
Supplies skin to cover the shaft in erection and prevent tightness
6
Stores pheromones and releases them on arousal
7
Stores, releases and helps distribute natural lubricants ("smega" and pre-ejaculatory fluid)
8
Makes the glans a visual signal of sexual arousal
9
Provides a seal against the vaginal wall to contain semen
Protective
10
Prevents the glans becoming keratinised, and keeps it soft and moist
11
Protects the thin-skinned glans against injury
But you know what happened to me when I was 10 years old? I was playing on a playground and slipped down a wet slide backwards. I landed facedown at the bottom. The ground was covered in rocks there from someone who had dumped a pile at the bottom of the slide. I scratched up my legs and stomach and tore my penis skin. It was hanging almost from a strand. The doctor made sure it was clean and sealed it with glue. Do you know what he said to me? He said, "If you were missing your foreskin, you would be having cosmetic surgery right now." My penis skin saved me from surgery!
- LK, aged 13 on The Daily Guggie Daly, Februrary 1, 2011
12
Protects the nerves of the glans, retaining their erotic function
13
In infancy, protects the urethra against contamination, meatal stenosis, (and UTIs?)
14
Provides lysosomes for bacteriostatic action around the glans
15
Pigmented, it protects the unpigmented glans against sunburn
16
Vascular (rich in blood vessels that bring heat to the tissues), it protects the less vascular glans against frostbite, as Sir Ranulph Fiennes found on his epic transpolar walk.
Other
17
Provides skin for grafts to burnt eyelids, reconstructive surgery, etc.
18
"The foreskin is important embryologically in the formation of the end of the penis and the urethra. If there is no foreskin the urethral opening is not at the end of the penis where it should be, but somewhere on the underside of the penis (hypospadius [sic])." - Dr Edgar Schoen (!) (but he claims that is its only function)
19
Holds absorbant tissue in place after urethral surgery, in case of minimal incontinence, etc.
20
Holds semen after masturbating until it can be disposed of. Comedian Joe Diaz describes doing so here (3:55 NSFW).
21
Holds M&Ms in a "pouch-off" (contest to see whose holds the most). (NSFW)
22
Conceals notes. "Members of the IRA were known to hide notes under their foreskins when incarcerated"
- Richard English, Armed Struggle (2004) 200-201 quoted in Non-Therapeutic Male Circumcision, Issues Paper No 14, 2009, Tasmania Law Reform Institute
23
Stores contact lenses, keys, drugs, smuggled jewels, etc. - not all recommended uses ...
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
April 8, 2008
Dealer hid heroin in his foreskin
Now what precisely were your reasons for doing it?
Is this not serious child physical and sexual abuse, otherwise known as pedophilia and gbh and worth at least a ten year prison sentence? Oh but I am an extremist, who was cut as a baby....
Poll
Topic: Medically unnecessary, non-consensual circumcisions should be banned.