Development: all embryos begin development using X chromosome genes. When male Y chromosomes genes finally start to cause an effect, the developing clitoris becomes foreskin. So let’s review... the foreskin is the SAME tissue as the clitoris (aka pleasure zone for cis-women)
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Sensation: when the exposed head of the penis grows, it develops a thick layer of skin to protect it—part of the role of the foreskin. Not only is the male equivalent of the clitoris removed, his penis head loses sensation as well by becoming “keratinized” (a ~75% sensation loss)
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Psychology: 90% of brain development takes place within the first year of life. All baby boys get an erection during the circumcision process, right before the extreme pain of the procedure. Therefore, circumcised boys subconsciously associate their first erection with that pain.
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Society: is it possible that the subconscious association between erections and pain cause some of the toxic masculinity we see in our culture? Seems to me no other country has so many men as angry and hostile as ours. This is of course speculation, and other factors are involved
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Surgery: the rate of botched circumcision is way too high to be considered worth while as an expected procedure. Common effects are loss of part of the penis, erections leaning to one side, or pain due to extreme tightness of the remaining skin.
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Hygiene: the foreskin actually protects the head of the penis, so long as it is cleaned regularly. The cleaning process is extremely dramatized by doctors, when all that’s really necessary is a quick rinse during a normal shower. I’ve never had a single issue in my 25 years.
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Personal opinion: there’s no need for such high rates of circumcision. Outside of America and the Jewish faith, circumcision is a rare procedure. Robbing a man from that amount of sensation is disgusting, and no one should have the right to make that decision but for himself
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Thank you for being a well informed medical student! Most of those in the medical field don't know half of what you stated
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It’s a combination of willful ignorance and not putting all the pieces together to make a whole
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There's nothing in my general Anatomy textbook about the foreskin other than "a peice of skin removed during circumcision".
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My program has an emphasis on histology and embryology, with like 10 credits devoted to the subject. It’s amazing what we don’t know as a society
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It’s a very important thing in the African tradition, especially in the Xhosa community, for one to be considered a man one needs to go through the process. It’s deeper than health and hygiene
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I tried to stay away from including cultural reasons on purpose. The point of my thread was to help people who don’t know the medical facts better understand them. Jewish and African culture is its own thing that I can’t really comment on for my lack of experience.
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as for jewish culture, read the book of Leonard Glick Marked in the Flesh and give 8 minutes to Ron Goldman:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec92eRrnWdY …
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That Ronald Goldman lecture is a must listen! Here's something I had no clue about until recently:
changed in Jewish culture during the Hellenistic period when rabbis made the procedure far more radical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_male_circumcision#Hellenistic_and_Judaic_culture …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfnqN3YgTd8&app=desktop … -
not the Hellenistic but the Roman period--ca. 200 AD
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The standard of care for pediatric surgery requires the benefits of the surgery to FAR outweigh the risks and harms or for the surgery to correct a congenital abnormality. Cutting off part of a baby boy's penis does NOT meet that standard of care! It's not even close!
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Cutting of a functional and highly erogenous part of a baby boy's penis is unnecessary because genital problems in boys are rare and there are effective, non-surgical ways to prevent and treat those rare problems.
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But I'm glad there are people like you joining the medical field, because everyone deserves to have their genitals intact as they are, they can decide otherwise later.
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