Male genital mutilation.
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Stop circumcising children. Let men decide if they want to be circumcised when they reach the age of consent at the age of 18. I guarantee circumcision will drop by 95% or more.
And if that's the case, that circumcision only exists if you don't give the boy the choice, then don't fucking force this on an infant!
Let's replace "curcumsising" with "imposing religion" to get the same result
Yes and no. That's a much harder thing to argue in reality. I'm an atheist so I'm pretty anti-religion, but the reality is that all parents want to teach their child at least some of their worldview. If that worldview includes religion, who are we to say "no, you can't teach that"? The child can always change their mind when they're older and in theory there's no harm. But a child can't decide to get their foreskin back. (I know there is a surgery to try to add some back, but it's just aesthetic, the nerves will never be recovered.)
Until about a year ago or something I didn't even know that it's such a common practice in the USA. For me it always was just a religios thing of Jews and for some rare medical cases where the foreskin opening is too tight.
But now I know that it's apparently considerd normal? dafuq
Be assured it's defenetly not in germany unless you are jewish.
Doing it as religious tradition isn't a justification as well, its still fuckin weird to mutilate a kids genitals without their consent
It is weird. Religious tradition is an entirely different beast to tackle though.
Yeah, it's said to have some kind of nebulous health benefits here.
It really goes back to the turn of the 20th century, when all kinds of health gurus claimed it would curb masturbation (which they blamed for a variety of ills), but nobody says that anymore.
...or Muslim. But yes, the US has this horrible practice of mutilating all kids. Just like some third-world countries.
Nah, just the male children.
Fortunately it's been in decline since the late 70s, but it still shouldn't be done
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Crazy idea, don't do cosmetic surgery on a baby?
Luckily is was almoat, it happens every year. It's rare but it possible to bleed to death from this
There's a really easy way to tell whether or not you should decide to circumcise a penis. First, check if it's your penis. If it isn't your penis, don't circumcise it BECAUSE THAT IS NOT YOUR DICK AND YOU DO NOT GET TO DECIDE WHICH FLESH BELONGS AND WHICH DOESN'T ON IT.
niche medical conditions walking in
Jkjk
My bro had one for medical reason, there's no problem with that even though we usually dont do it here
I had a foreskin issue where I couldn't pull it back. Got it removed around age 10. Wasn't fun but now my captain doesn't wear his cap to dinner. Looks normal too.
I assumed they were specifically talking about babies. If there's a genuine issue then it makes sense, but I don't know of anything that's diagnosable at birth that would require circumcision.
I know a lot of young adults also get the procedure for the same reason as you. I was in your boat until probably my mid-teens before things fixed themselves, but it clearly doesn't work out that way for some.
Maybe we should stop routine elective cosmetic penis surgery on infants?
It's not elective. They baby can't elect to having part of their genitals cut off.
It's elective because there's no medical reason to do it. Babies don't get to choose anything for themselves. An adult can elect to have a circumcision, and parents can elect to have their babies circumcised. It would be a better world if the latter weren't true, but that ain't the kind of world we got.
Stop with the "cosmetic surgery" and call it what it is...genital mutilation!
It's both. Parents want their babies to have designer penises, so they pay doctors to mutilate them for aesthetic reasons. It is mutilation, and it is cosmetic surgery.
Then they should have got that Chinese doctor to crispr some horse genes in there.
Stop mutilating your children.
Stupid fucking parents.
Awful parents.
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