CIRCUMCISION TO LOOK LIKE OTHERS.
It is the circumcised father who may feel uncomfortable if he looks different from his son.
Circumcision is often chosen by parents so that their son will not "look different" from his father or peers.
The belief is that an intact (uncircumcised) boy will feel uncomfortable if he does not "match" others.
In fact there is no published evidence whatsoever to support this belief.
This assumption may be the product of a psychological defense mechanism called projection, the process of attributing feelings to others that belong to oneself.
It is the circumcised father who may feel uncomfortable if he looks different from his son.
The fear of confronting these feelings in themselves motivates circumcised men to cling to the myth that intact sons will have such feelings.
Furthermore, when the first generation of American boys was circumcised, they looked different from their intact fathers.
This belief was not prevalent then because intact men had no repressed feelings about how their penis looked.
Investigation of the literature, interviews with intact men, and other pertinent information lead to the following inferences regarding the decision to circumcise for social or "matching" reasons........
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