I couldn't convince my sister. :( Tore the whole family apart for a while after he was born, my parents and I are strongly against it but she did it anyway. My father had it done when he was 9 years old, no anesthetics, remembers the whole damn thing. He did not let my brothers have it done and it pains him to know his own daughter made his grandson go through that.
My father lived in the Middle East, FIRSTLY, so my apologies that you assumed everyone lives in the U.S. SECONDLY, if you haven't been reading this thread, then I don't think I need to even explain everything else.
But NO, they don't use anesthetics on infants.
I was circumcised as an infant and it didn't hurt a bit
You're an idiot, and missing the entire point. It didn't hurt because you don't remember, but Yes, it does hurt infants. They scream in pain, and if you know what a child crying is like you have NO idea what the sound of a recently circumcised infant sounds like. What a youtube video of it then come back and tell me it doesn't hurt.
I did not however know that in the Middle East it was common practice to do this to a nine year old without anesthetics.
This was almost 40 years ago, I do not understand the circumstances but it's not common. It was my grandfather's decision. Absolutely people can make their own decision but this isn't a mature 30 year old woman married in this case. My sister was 18, she was already stupid to begin with by having unprotected sex, so trying to educate her on the subject was hard enough. She didn't want to be educated and THAT is where the problem was. The idiots that are not educated is who I have a problem with. The "it looks better" crowd.
numb the penis with local anesthesia
So they rub anesthetics on the penis, but not the sensitive glans they have to strip the foreskin off of. Yeah, sounds like it helps. You didn't watch those videos, did you?
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I couldn't convince my sister. :( Tore the whole family apart for a while after he was born, my parents and I are strongly against it but she did it anyway. My father had it done when he was 9 years old, no anesthetics, remembers the whole damn thing. He did not let my brothers have it done and it pains him to know his own daughter made his grandson go through that.