If your partner was circumcised, would you have your son circumcised too?

[Nikoletta]

I noticed from another thread that a few women whose partners are circumcised seemed to talk very positively about it for various reasons, either because they believed it was cleaner, or they liked the way it looked, etc.
If your partner is not circumcised, I can well understand it if you would never dream of circumcising your son, as it is not really the norm in this country anyway. But if you do have / have had a circumcised partner, and you like the fact that he is circumcised, what would you feel about having your son circumcised too?
Would it be important for son to match his father?
Would it be inconsistent for you to like the fact that the father is circumcised, but not get son circumcised?
Especially if you have familiarity with circumcision in the family, I would be interested to know your thoughts.
What would you do?

Debster7808 said "you are left with a core of people, many of whom are pleased to have a circumcised partner, (-it's clear that there are lots of women who have this preference-), but can't quite bring themselves to impose their preferred state on their own sons. "

No, very few women have actually said this was their preference on this thread, I don't know where you are getting this idea from. I'm with Thumbwitch, I don't prefer a circumcised penis, in fact I prefer uncircumcised, and I've had a number of both slag that I was ;) . But DH is circumcised and considering how awesome an all-round human he is, it was not even enough for me to consider not being with him.

And there was no "can't quite bring myself" to doing it to DS, it was a clear, no, we aren't going to do that.

Well, a lot of my girlfriends have said that they prefer a partner to be circumcised because they think it is cleaner, sexier, and looks better. It's just anecdotal. But I think some polls on the internet show that even in the uk, quite a lot of women have a preference for circumcised partners, even though there is a lower preference for wanting their own sons to be circumcised.

I agree that more women want a circumcised partner than there are women who want to circumcise their own sons!

My dh is as is the norm from his home country infact it still is the norm for reasons of cleaniness. His opinion was that he wanted the same for DS and it would be done in his country as it is a normal op there (in hospital where baby is knocked out and then given pain relief). However i was against the idea. After much discussion ds was not done. It is still a source of amusement - MIL still laughs at DS's English willy. DH has told her stop as he is getting older now- 3 next month!

No.

I think the decision to circumcise very much comes down to what one is most culturally used to.
I grew up in a foreskin-free household myself, so when our son was born, it was an easy decision for us to go ahead and circumcise, as hubby is also circumcised (and quite happy about it too!).
But I can see how this is a big area of contention in the increasing number of mixed culture marriages. Always interesting to see how that one plays out. Who ends up giving in in that kind of scenario.

Ha! True. You can't really meet half way when it comes to an argument over whether the foreskin stays or goes!

As a bloke,the head (a.k.a. glans) of my penis is the most sensitive part of it and the part that if caressed gets me turned-on the easiest.a circumcised man would have a less sensitive glans as not being protected by the foreskin it becomes tougher.this i know having had sex with circumcised and uncurcumcised men.so this might be a reason why circumcision is practised in certain religions-to reduce the number of men having recreational sex. so a pretty bad reason to do this.

Absolutely not, it is child abuse as far as I am concerned. I wouldn't force my child to have plastic surgery on his nose if he didn't look like his father, I'm not going to mutilate his penis if he doesn't look like his father.

My DH is and when DS was born i was asked if i wanted him to be circumcised (the MW thought that since i was mixed race, i would want him doing on faith grounds) but i declined. I didn't want to inflict pain on my little boy.

That's an interesting point Paul

Given that this is the 21st century and most of us live in a civilized society with access to sanitation and clean water, why do some people continue think that circumcision is the cleaner option? Why is it considered normal to hack off a piece of skin for no apparent reason (medical or religious or otherwise)?

I forgot to say that the cynic in me thinks that in places like the US it is just an extra medical procedure that the doctors can make money from.