Originally posted by Neubob
In most cases you'd be right, foreskin isn't a problem, but, like I said, my condition was unique. It is called phimosis(or something like that)where naturally-occuring scar tissue around the area in question prevents mobility of the skin during--umm, excitement. This lack of mobility promotes infection and can lead to penile cancer later on down the road.
That being said, circumcision is never a bad idea. Even for people without the problem that I had, it is far more sanitary to not have foreskin. Somethings just don't have much use on our bodies. The appendix and the tailbone are two other examples.
And the doctor didn't make a dime off of it. He's an internist, and made the diagnosis during a standard physical, while the guy who performed the operation was a urologist. Both guys did the work as a professional favor.
Don't be so cynical Mechanic, the vast majority of doctors really aren't in it just for the money.
What a pile of pseudomedicinal crap !
Your personal condition is one thing but don't you try to lecture on general "healthyness" of the circumcision. You are just voicing the unsubstantiated OPINION of all circumcised surgens and nothing more than that. The next stop of your thought train is the approval of female circumcision.
Appendix, tailbone, foreskin may seem to be unnecessary appendages of your body, but in reality they are the constituent parts of your body. Attempting to get rid of parts of your body without the medical necessity for such an operation just can't be healthy. I hope you won't lecture your son that the forskin is a "useless" stretch of skin, nor instruct your daughter that the cesarean is "just another but easier way" of delivering a baby.
I understand that you are in pain right now, and you did what was right for you, but don't let your pain obscure your mind vision.
Healthy recovery to you
but be prepared that it may take a little bit more time than you expect.
