Ear piercing is cruel but circumcision is ok

When I was a child my maternal grandmother take me awhile from primary school and carry me to pierce my ears. My mother was upset. Maybe this is the reason I am not fussy for wearing ear-ring. I think that parents should wait until the girl can decide if she want her ears to be pierced because sometimes when they become older they decide against it.

As a senior male, I know very little about piercing ears, but circumcision I Know. I helped raise four boys, none of whom were circumcised. I've heard that circumcision is very painful, and I can believe it. None of my boys were circumcised and neither was I. I have never seen anything that would make me think circumcision was of any value to humanity. I have not seen one instance of infection, disease, or cleanliness that would give circumcision any value what so ever. My belief is that circumcision is an Olde Wives Tale, probably picked up in religious circles, that has absolutely no scientific, or health value. Its simply a religious torture that is perpetrated on young boys as a heinous religious ritual that should be outlawed as inhumane.

When I was a little girl, we were not allowed to get our ears pierced because only foreign girls had their ears pierced, not good well brought up English girls, so I had to endure wearing those clip ons and having my ears itch because I was allergic to nickel. I did not get my ears pierced until I was in my fifties. Yet baby boys then were being circumcised. It seems there is a double standard here. Oh by the way, piercing the ear does not hurt. It is just like getting a bee sting and if done young enough, the baby will not feel a thing.

If you ever worked as a nursing assistant or other medical personnel involved in the personal care of a patient and had to take care of a man with a serious infection due to not having ever been circumcised, you would understand that there is also a medical reason for circumcision. Personal hygiene has to be of extra care for the uncircumcised and when a man reaches a point in his life that he is not able to take that personal care, it can be a really bad situation. Circumcision is much more drastic than ear piercing. I don't see anything wrong with piercing the ears of a baby girl. The pain involved there is not that big of a thing. However, I would definitely make sure the child never wore dangly or hoop earrings until they were at least teenagers as they can get accidently torn from the ears if caught on anything. I had my daughter's ears pierced when she was 3 years old. Beforehand I prepared her for what it would feel like by giving little pinches to her earlobes. When she actually got them pierced she had no problems at all and didn't even cry. She said it didn't hurt. I do not think circumcision or ear piercing constitutes abuse. If the child grows up and no longer wants pierced ears, not wearing the earrings will eventually cause the holes to close, at least most of the way. I think our perception that something is going to hurt makes us feel the pain a lot more than the small child does because they have no other experience to base it on.

I think that both of them are ok. Circumcision is definitely better done at a younger age. I don't see anything wrong with piercing a baby's ears. I probably won't do it though, just because when I had mine done at an older age it got infected and hurt pretty bad. I wouldn't want to go through that with my child.

I have a two year old boy and I did not circumcise him. I do not see any reason to cut off part of his body. I would not pierce a babies ear either. They can feel pain and ear piercing pain is nothing like having your skin cut off pain. Why anyone would hurt their baby boy that bad I do not know.

Circumcision is a necessary evil. Without it a child can very easily get very uncomfortable skin infections. Ear piercing should be the idea of the child getting it. What does a baby need earrings for? The child should be old enough to decide for his or herself.

I think circumcision is really much more painful as compared to ear piercing. But i think its really better to be done when people are still very young so that they would not be able to recall the pain. I think nowadays most people prefer having it done when their children are still babies. I think is really hard if it would be done in the late ages of their children, imagine all the pain that the child would feel if they would be goin through all those things. I think its best to spare the child all the pain and just have it done while he/she is still very young.

Well, they are very different because one is for medical purposes and the other is for vanity. That being said, I don't ear piercing is horrible because it's not THAT painful. I guess if it gets infected it could hurt, and it may hurt more because their ears are tiny, I don't know. It's hard to know how much it hurts since we can't ask a baby, plus they probably cry way more than it hurts because of the shock, and not the pain. Maybe a doctor or something could back up that it hurts more for a baby because their ears are more sensitive, but I'm not a doctor! I had my ears pierced when I was five (my choice) and it didn't hurt at all. I think parents should just wait until their child is a little older though, because why put them through the shock and the potential pain just because you want them to look a certain way? It just seems needless, and the child should have the right to decide when they are older if they want to have pierced ears or not. They are too young to make that decision. When I got older I decided to let the holes in my ears close because I hate wearing earrings. So, what a waste to have had them pierced in the first place. Obviously a five year doesn't know what's best for themselves. I know ear piercing is minor, and it didn't hurt me, but it really just wasn't necessary.

It is not OK to pierce or to tattoo or otherwise to harm Your body ONLY BECAUSE OTHERS do it. And not even if other do it because of religious beliefs. One should do such things because he/she feels like to go for them. Because a true religious person finds his beliefs within his heart and from the inside of the body, and is not so much into showing it OFF to others by piercing his body!! Maybe it is a tradition there from where You come from, but anyway: tradition that does not bear true meaning behind is useless tradition, I think.

Just my 2 cents but... I am having a baby boy in January, My wife and I have done a lot of research on circumcision. Everything suggests that babies this young do feel the pain all the same but its such a young age that they can not recall it later on in life. We are circumcising our boy now so that he wont have to deal with the pain down the road.

ear piercing for baby is not pain now a days.u can take her to a beautician or any person u want to take and have pierced in cool manner. now a days there are piercing machine and with it there will be no pain for kids. and this ear piercing is a custom in india and all people will pierce their kids in india when the kids are between 9 months to 2,3 years and we don;t feel it a evil thing or other.and there is objection and compulsory in any religion. if u want u can get u;r kids ears pierced. or leave it .but there will be no pain for them. it will be just like an injection .just they will once pierce without any pain.