No, of course not. That would be crazy. But of course that is because your example is hardly apropos. The tongue is functional tissue that serves a necessary purpose - tasting food. So removing the tip as a means of reducing sugar intake would be insane - an important function, tasting sweets, would be eliminated forever. No one would suggest doing something so radical to solve a problem that can just be remedied by controlling your diet.Steve3007 wrote: Another thought: If it were possible to perform an operation to remove the taste buds from the tongue which respond to sweet tastes, do you think we should do it? Sugar is very unhealthy and most of us eat way too much of it. I recall from my high school biology that these particular taste buds are on the tip of the tongue. Perhaps all young children should have an operation to remove the tip of the tongue? Good idea?
The foreskin, however, really has no useful purpose, and its only function appears to be enhancing sexual pleasure. Removing it will not lead to any loss of important functionality - guys can still have sex and reproduce quite nicely without it. In fact, I'd think we'd all agree that guys don't need any extra excuses to have sex, do they? Circumcised guys obviously have sex just as much as uncut guys do, so removing it does not really affect anything but the pleasure, which imho is not nearly as important as just having a healthy sex life which is compatible with God's teachings.
Of course, you could argue, as many of my friends do, that it's not fair for me to reduce his sexual pleasure just to curtail how much he masturbates, but I feel comfortable with my decision for the following reasons:
1) His masturbating was becoming a bit perverted. If it wasn't, and he was only doing it occasionally, like maybe a few times a month, I might think differently. But he's doing it almost daily and like I said I've found porn on his computer. In light of this I think it would be prudent to do something to curtail it, before it gets even more out of hand and I start finding even more outlandish stuff on his hard drive.
2) In this day and age I think it's likely, even probable, that our sons and/or daughters are going to engage in premarital sex, and imho 'natural' sex is simply too intense for them to handle responsibly. Their young bodies are too full of hormones, they are too passionate, and they lack the experience and self-control to think about the long-term implications of their actions. I mean, I couldn't imagine having the kind of sex I do with my husband when I was a teenager, I'd probably have had sex every day if I could! And as a mother I feel it's imperative that I do anything I can to prevent that, or at least to discourage it as much as possible. Because nothing would screw up his life more than getting some teen girl pregnant. And I know it's going to be difficult enough to prevent it from happening, or even to minimize it if it ever does, and just imagining my son having the ability to give some teen girl the kind of toe-curling orgasms his father gives me chills me to the bone.
3) He might get an infection and have to have his foreskin removed later anyways, so wouldn't it be best to just do it now, before he he's had sex, so that neither he or his partner will ever know anything different anyways? If I don't do it and he develops a bad infection after getting married, then he and his partner would know the difference, and it would probably adversely affect their sex life. But if I just do it now, it won't affect them in the least. I mean, I'm honestly am of the opinion, at least concerning this issue, that 'what they don't know won't hurt them'. They will never know what they're missing, and I'm sure they can alleviate any issues the same way I did with my ex, by using mega amounts of lube! So I feel it's just better to do it now, rather than later, that way any reduction in pleasure will not be an issue because they won't even be aware of it.
I do agree with that, Lucky. That is absolutely true. My sister told me that it's much better to do it when they're infants, so they will not remember the pain. And after watching that video (with the sound) I definitely agree. The baby was screaming madly, it sounded like he was choking on his own saliva, and then he went into shock and passed out for about a minute! Then he kept screaming again throughout the rest of the procedure. It would obviously be much better to do this when they are too young to remember it, for sure.LuckyR wrote: 3- No one cares if your kid gets circed, BUT if you are going to do it, do it as a newborn
However, my sister told me that older boys can handle the pain better psychologically, because they understand what is going on, and she assured me that she's never heard of any cases of lasting trauma. She told me that after several minutes of recovery time, they are as good as new, and like any other traumatic experience, the whole affair quickly becomes a faint, almost unconscious, memory. And she said he would be back to his normal activities in just a few weeks. So I'm not worried.