• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    21 days ago

    When my son was about to be born my mother in law caught wind that we didn’t plan on circumcising (before researching it I mostly felt it was just strange to do cosmetic surgery on a newborn) but her argument was mostly parroting the 50% reduction in this that and the other disease, missing the fact that it was going from a 0.5% chance to a 0.25% chance, but of course introduced new risks by nature of being a surgery.

    Naturally after looking more into it I learned just how bonkers circumcision is so I was far more cemented in my position

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      it baffles me that anyone with a penis, or really anyone who knows what a penis actually is, would think it’s a good idea
      would people remove a child’s eyelids? NO OF COURSE NOT holy shit
      piercing flesh is generally to be avoided unless absolutely necessary, as is helpfully indicated to us by it being fucking painful

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      21 days ago

      The fact that it is even allowed in so-called civilized countries is outrageous. In the US it common because some religious nut was obsessed with children’s masturbation.

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        21 days ago

        Which is nuts, as a circumcised individual (medically necessary, my parents aren’t monsters) I masturbated A LOT as a teen.