Gordon and I had quite a heated discussion last night about whether we should circumcise the baby, if I have a boy. Gordon wants to circumcise and I refuse to do it. To me, it is genital mutilation and I want no part of that. I am not religious and I don’t think it is necessary to put my poor little baby through it.<\/p>\n
And why should I make that choice for him? If he wants his penis circumcised, he can do it when he is older. For those same reasons, I am not going to pierce the ears of my baby if I have a girl, even though it is a family tradition. What if she doesn’t want pierced ears?<\/p>\n
Apparently, though, I didn’t always feel this way. My friend Marianne says that back when she was having her little boy a few years ago, I was all in favor of circumcision. I don’t remember being for or against it back then, but she has a good memory so she knows. But even before I got knocked up, maybe in the past year or two, I was thinking that if I ever had a little boy I wouldn’t get him circumcised. So I guess something happened between then and now to change my mind. Gordon, in his infinite wisdom, says I want an uncircumcised penis now because of all the uncircumcised penises I met in Boston. (Please note that when I say infinite wisdom, I am being highly sarcastic.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, despite Gordon’s protests and the fact that I have no penis, should I have a baby boy, I am not having him circumcised.<\/p>\n