As an adult? -- you do! As a baby? -- how could you?

As opposed to individuals being circumcised , and taking no part in the decision.

It is usually done at the baby stage so how can the baby decide. And who can force an adult to have it done unless you are talking about the brutal female circumcisions.

I believe that ones body is ones own decision as to what happens to it. But with circumcision do you really think a teenage boy, or a grown man would want to go through that? They do that when you're awake, no pain killers. Ouch!

I think that you should have that right, however it is done at birth, because they say that most men couldnt handle the pain at a later age.

I believe in letting either the father of the child or closest male relative deciding.

I think they should. I wish I had been better educated when I had my son, I thought it was necessary at the time. After seeing what it put him through I'll never force it on someone again.

personaly im glad it was done to me, and my kids will have it done too.

It would be difficult, considering that it's done (or supposed to be done) when a boy is 8 days old...

http://sti.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/79/1/65 - data from S.Korea Looking at S.Korea you will find a culture that recently started to circumcise their infants, due to the influence of American culture. They have higher circ rates than the US, they have no preference for infant circumcision at all. 99% are NOT circ’d as infants or during the first year, Less than 10% are circ’d as infants or children under the age of 10.More than 90% are NOT circumcised during the first 10yrs. Why is this important ?, because it shows that a new population that accepts circumcision doesn’t necessarily accept the preconceived (SOW- same old way) ideas, they may develop their own ritual preferences. What’s REALLY IMPORTANT, they circumcise at Any AGE - this completely blows away any BS ideas that a time window is critical, because this is a Pro-Circ society that has consistently higher circ rates than the US.

I'm a guy, and one that wasn't cut at birth but later became permanently retracted around puberty, so that I now have what resembles a circumcised penis in almost every way. With this before and after experience, I am one of a minority that may be qualified to speak on this issue. I used to support RIC, but came to believe that it's an invasion of a boy's rights. But being strongly in favor of circumcision, I urge you to delay the decision until your son is old enough to comprehend and decide for himself, while encouraging him to seek it. Meanwhile, it's not too soon to encourage foreskin retraction IF it is already fully and easily retractable. It may not be, until about age 3 - 5 (average), or as late as age 10 (for as many as 1% of boys). But by starting school age (assuming normal, healthy and functional foreskin), your son should be keeping it retracted and clean at all times if possible, and be educated about circumcision, which he will be discovering among his peers very soon, and told that he can get cut when he reaches about puberty if he feels he needs or wants it. Most boys already have developed strong sentiments about that by then, and are old enough to make up their own minds.