text: should i have a circumcision? i wanted to know because i am 16 and my mum asked me if i wanted to get it done when i was a child she didn't want me to have it but she asked a couple of weeks ago i just wanted to know people's opinion on this as i don't know what to do myself. thanks while your reasons would be religious, these days there are no hygenic reasons for circumcision if you bathe at least once a day. there will therefore be no smell. accusations otherwise are just born out of ignorance. if you consider most of european men, for instance, are uncircumcised, don't you think they would have moved to circumcision en masse long ago if circumcision was the most hygenic and correct thing to do? the poster who says that it will make your penis 'healthier' is in denial. it is simply untrue and he has no medical evidence to back this up.  almost all other reasons for circumcision are now medically treatable and therefore, circumcision is unneccessary.  for women, an intact penis is designed to work better that a circumcised one because the foreskin allows for greater movement during sexual intercourse and less lubrication is required.  it is also better for the man because his glans is soft and sensitive - the glans on circumcised penises gets thick and hard over the years and decreases sensitivity and can even lead to erection problems.  i am writing this as someone who is circumcised and i am appalled that a fully functional part of me was trimmed off for no real reason and which has, subsequently, given me a less satisfactory sex life than my uncut counterparts.