Reply #114: When I was in college.. [View All]

I paid my way through by working as a home health aid (kind of like a nurses aid but you go to the people's house and help them get dressed and bathe and go to the bathroom etc). I worked nights because it wasn't real demanding (as the patients normally slept) and gave me time to study. I worked for this one gentlemen who had terminal cancer. In the mornings I'd help him wash and get dressed and I remember that he was uncircumcised (in fact, it was the first uncut "one" I had ever seen) and as he would wash himself (he preferred to take care of his own 'private area') he would say irritably "If you ever have a son fer' christ sakes get him circumcised!" (well, he was kind of cranky anyway).
Anyway..when it came time to make the decision for my son I remembered that and I guess that's why I had him circumcised, besides the fact his dad is circumcised too.
From everything I had heard/read at the time, there really wasn't any medical reason to circumcise it was just more for "looks" (and I suppose religious reasons for some people).