How should i ask my parents about getting circumcised?

I am 17 years old and i have my mind set on getting circumcised. The only problem is i don't know how to bring it up to them. Please help!How should i ask my parents about getting circumcised?
Just bring it up straight out (preferably to your dad in private). See what he says. What's the worst thing that can happen? They say no? If so, you can always do it when you turn 18 (assuming you can pay for it). It is considered cosmetic surgery. May I ask, WHY you want to get circumcised in the first place?How should i ask my parents about getting circumcised?
Just ask them. At 18 you will be an adult, legally. Get some practice in and start acting like one.





As an adult, it is your choice to be circumcised. But, remember, it is surgery, and elective, cosmetic surgery at that. If you want to have part of your sex organ cut away and amputated that is your choice. But, I research before I go through any surgery. find out what you are in for, what you will be losing.





Just for grins, retract your foreskin and lightly run a moistened finger tip over the inside of your foreskin. Do you feel anything? If you do, just think how it will be with all that sensitive skin gone.
Bringing it up with them is the least of your problems, should they be crazy enough to agree.


Adult males lose 15 square inches (40 square centimetres) of skin in circumcision, over half the skin of your penis. You lose the gliding action as it slides on itself during masturbation and sex. You will suffer bruising, perhaps some bleeding, and the swelling from the disruption to the lymph system goes on for up to six months. Removing the foreskin turns the surface of the glans from an inner mucosal membrane to outside skin. Newly circumcised adults usually go through some weeks of intense discomfort as the glans is constantly exposed to rubbing on clothing, until it develops a thicker keratin layer and becomes less sensitive. You must abstain from ALL sexual activity for an average of six weeks. Some men like the final result but others complain of loss of sensation and miss being able to slide their foreskin over the glans. Circumcised guys often have little or no movable skin left and are forced to masturbate using lube or rubbing dry, without the loose skin. There is no going back if you don鈥檛 like the result.


A recent study has shown real differences in fine touch sensitivity between circumcised and intact penises and that the most sensitive parts of the intact penis are those that would be removed by circumcision.


The claimed benefits of circumcision are a beat up (based on flawed studies) and don't really exist but medical authorities have worked out that the overall complication rate is higher than all the benefits claimed by the pro-cutting advocates. One by one the claims are disproved but the pro-cutting zealots come up with more and keep quoting the old ones despite the evidence against them. For example you have more chance of dying from a circumcision or losing your penis from infection than from penile cancer. The rate of penile cancer is higher in the largely-circumcised USA than in European countries where less than 1% of the male population is circumcised. Plus circumcised men have been found to have penile cancer, mostly on the scar. (Remember this is a very rare disease in intact or circumcised men).


A very recent study in New Zealand followed a cohort of boys through life from birth to age 32. About 40% were circumcised. The intact males had a slightly lower rate of sexually transmitted infections than the circumcised but there was no significant difference.


Using surgery to mutilate the genitals instead of washing in a modern western society makes no sense. Normal intact male genitals are, if anything, easier to wash than female ones and the same substance, smegma collects in the genital folds of both sexes. A few intact males have problems with tight foreskin but this is only a tiny proportion of intact males. The condition can now be almost always treated with simple stretching exercises, sometimes in combination with a steroid cream that speeds up the process.


Many women who get to interact sexually with an intact penis prefer the natural state. Don鈥檛 do this to yourself just to fit in. Be proud of your whole and natural body.


Geoff
WHY





Why on earth would you want to get circumcised that to me and probably the other 85% of the uncut guys in the world is the dumbest idea ever. You are would be cutting of the most sensitive part of your body the foreskin with all those nerve endings, and then having the foreskin removed will expose the glans which also reduces sensitivity.


Check out this yahoo question (in source) it was of a person who was going to get circumcised but by showing him all the down sides of it, he is not getting it anymore. And for all you circumcision lovers, there are no proven facts confirming that it is better or healthier. Also the foreskin is a birth right not a defect. If we were given it why on earth would you want to take it away, evolution has worked hard to make it what it is.





@NoAnteaterHere


YOU ARE SO WRONG YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU LOSS ALMOST HAVE THE SKIN ON YOUR PENIS WHEN GETTING CUT, YOU LOSE PLEASURE DURING SEX AND MASTURBATION AND ITS UGLIER, ALSO THERE ARE NO PROVEN FACTS ABOUT CUT BEING BETTER THEN UNCUT, UNCUT ON THE OTHER HAND HAS BEEN WITH CERTAIN THINGS, WHY WOULD EVOLUTION GIVE US A FORESKIN IF WE WERE TO JUST CUT IT OFF THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE YOU ARE LOSING MILLIONS OF NERVE ENDINGS, ALSO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WATCH 3+ TIMES A DAY, JUST DOING IT ONCE IN THE SHOWER PULL YOUR FORESKIN BACK AND THERE YOUR DONE, ITS NOT THAT HARD. YOU WERE JUST ASHAMED OF BEING UNCUT AND LIVING THE LIFE WITH IT, SO YOU GOT IT CUT. YOU ARE THE ONE THAT IS BRAIN WASHED.
at ur age itll hurt like mess and itll take over 3 months to get over....my older bro got it done when he was 20...i was 16....i had to help him do everything....get dressed...take a shower...take him to the bathroom.....he couldnt do anything for 3 months without someone helping him....he could masturbate or have sex or almost over a year...he said it was not worht it.....but just ask ur dad about it
i don't see why you would want to do this, circumcision is only going to make your penis head dry and give you a scar on your penis





just tell them straight up to make an appointment with a doctor so you can get snipped
ok dude you know when you ask a girl and you just straight up ask.


do that just say it sraight up and i promise you! they will respect you and your wishes. Good Luck!!!
dont do it i found out on this one site i forget it but it sed either girls like it uncut or dont care meanin less girls like in england they make fun of circumsised guyz!!
Just talk to your dad about it. Just say hey dad I need to talk to you about something and then tell him.





-Connor
I would reconsider. Do not fall prey to peer pressure. The circumcised guys have lost out on a lot. You are normal and intact - they are mutilated. Why do I say that?





First understand how important the foreskin is. The foreskin contains nerves. These are specialized nerves found nowhere else in the penis.


Without the foreskin, you cannot masturbate properly. Intact men masturbate by moving the foreskin up and down, like so:


http://geocities.com/painfulquestioning/鈥?/a>


As the skin moves up and down, the nerves on the underside of the foreskin are stimulated.





Further damage is done because the foreskin is a protective layer of the penis. With the foreskin gone, the glans is exposed. Firstly it dies out. Secondly, it rubs on clothes; this causes the glans skin to become toughened. Both these things further reduce sensitivity. This page gives a good illustration of the damage done:


http://www.noharmm.org/IDcirc.htm





Circumcision obviously affects sex. Women and men enjoy sex more when the man has a foreskin. This page lists the ten reasons why:


http://www.sexasnatureintendedit.com/10F鈥?/a>





There are some studies that say that there is a mild protective benefit of circumcision in relation to certain conditions. On the other hand, there are studies showing no effect, and some showing the opposite. But if there is any benefit, the conditions are not serious and/or very rare and the health advantage is extremely small. So there is no real health benefit - the losses and risks of the operation certainly outweigh the supposed benefits. Here is a good page to find out more:


http://cirp.org/library/disease/





Circumcision was originally introduced for non-religious reasons in the late 1800's. It was done by crackpot doctors who thought that it would cure various diseases such as paralysis and mental illness. It then took hold as a method of discouraging masturbation. By the way, it was only taken up in English speaking countries. Presumably foreign doctors had a few more brain cells.


You can read a more complete history here:


http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/ind鈥?/a>





Circumcision never really took hold in Britain and by the 1950's it had stopped completely. Less than 1% are circumcised in Britain today. It began to die out in Australia and Canada in the 1970's; today less than 10% are circumcised in those 2 countries. In the USA it has declined, though not by much, from a high of about 85% to about 60% today:


http://www.cirp.org/library/statistics/U鈥?/a>


The USA is now the only Western country that still performs this barbaric procedure. European countries like France, Germany Holland and the Scandinavian countries have never done it. Only 20-25% of the world are circumcised - and 2/3 of these are Muslims.
if it hurts, tell your dad about it.
wait till ur 18 so u dont have 2 ask them
tell them that it hurts all the time and really bothers u
Talk to your Dad, he more than likely wanted to get you circumcised when you were born. You may have to wait until you are 18, I had to!


I was circumcised at 18, so been there and have the t-shirt! Being circumcised is much cleaner, uncut guys need to wash at least 2-3x a day and before sex as there is always a stink. It is healthier to be cut, uncut guys have a 60% higher chance to get STD's and HIV! Looks better to be circumcised, that's a no brainer. It also enhances the sexual experience. The foreskin just gets in the way! I had no hesitation to have my boys (2%26amp;4) circumcised as I know there is no downside, only a lifetime of benefits!





Don't fall prey to the antis! Most are uncut or brainwashed by the lies! There is nothing good about being uncircumcised!











Also read about new studies!





http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081217/sc_n鈥?/a>





http://allcircumcision.blogspot.com/2008鈥?/a>