What is the point in circumcision?

Answer 1

There is no point in circumcision aside from religious marking. the question is best answered by stating what the foreskin is for.

• Protection: Just as the eyelids protect the eyes, the foreskin protects the glans and keeps its surface soft, moist, and sensitive. It also maintains optimal warmth, pH balance, and cleanliness. The glans itself contains no sebaceous glands-glands that produce the sebum, or oil, that moisturizes our skin. The foreskin produces the sebum that maintains proper health of the surface of the glans.Circumcision totally destroys that balance.
• Immunological Defense: The mucous membranes that line all body orifices are the body's first line of immunological defense. Glands in the foreskin produce antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as lysozyme.Lysozyme is also found in tears and mother's milk. Specialized epithelial Langerhans cells, an immune system component, abound in the foreskin's outer surface.13 Plasma cells in the foreskin's mucosal lining secrete immunoglobulins, antibodies that defend against infection.14
• Erogenous Sensitivity: The foreskin is as sensitive as the fingertips or the lips of the mouth. It contains a richer variety and greater concentration of specialized nerve receptors than any other part of the penis.15 These specialized nerve endings can discern motion, subtle changes in temperature, and fine gradations of texture.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
• Coverage During Erection: As it becomes erect, the penile shaft becomes thicker and longer. The double-layered foreskin provides the skin necessary to accommodate the expanded organ and to allow the penile skin to glide freely, smoothly, and pleasurably over the shaft and glans.
• Self-Stimulating Sexual Functions: The foreskin's double-layered sheath enables the penile shaft skin to glide back and forth over the penile shaft. The foreskin can normally be slipped all the way, or almost all the way, back to the base of the penis, and also slipped forward beyond the glans. This wide range of motion is the mechanism by which the penis and the orgasmic triggers in the foreskin, frenulum, and glans are stimulated.
• Sexual Functions in Intercourse: One of the foreskin's functions is to facilitate smooth, gentle movement between the mucosal surfaces of the two partners during intercourse. The foreskin enables the penis to slip in and out of the vagina nonabrasively inside its own slick sheath of self-lubricating, movable skin. The female is thus stimulated by moving pressure rather than by friction only, as when the male's foreskin is missing.
• The foreskin fosters intimacy between the two partners by enveloping the glans and maintaining it as an internal organ.The sexual experience is enhanced when the foreskin slips back to allow the male's internal organ, the glans, to meet the female's internal organ, the cervix-a moment of supreme intimacy and beauty.
• The foreskin is made to become loose with the proper handling and then when man hood is attained becomes an important part of the and the woman's mans sex life.

The majority of circumcisions are done as a religious rite, a sort of blood sacrifice to god or as a sign of respect to a profit it is also done at times to mark a stage in life where manhood is attained. In English speaking cultures many people were convinced that during the Victorian era that circumcision would curtail masturbation. Masturbation was held responsible by the medical fraternity at the time for being responsible for over a hundred different diseases. Many people simply took their word for it and began with the genital mutilation of their children. this practice went on for more then a hundred years but is no reducing in light of correct medical information being made available to the people of these country's.

Circumcision is performed where the foreskin is too tight to retract over the glans. If the foreskin is forced back it can get stuck and need urgent surgical attention.

"Removal of a healthy body part without medical indication has been viewed as being a violation of the Hippocratic oath, falling under the United Nations' definition of genital mutilation. As such circumcision is seen as being against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration on the Rights of the Child." - Canadian Medical Assocaition Journal, Volume 152, Number 11, Pages 1873-1876,

June 1, 1995.

In other parts of the World it is still used without concern. Check out the related link below.

Answer 2

There is no medical reason for circumcision. the practice is a religious or cultural tradition and is in some cases falsely recommended by physicians.

Answer 3

there is no point in circumcision it is a harmful rite that has no health benefits at all