There’s a Netflix documentary about circumcision, and here’s a quick thread for anyone who wants to know my perspective as a male medical student
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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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Circumcision is effectively a triple-layer curse. The outer and inner layers of the foreskin do not exist anymore. The glans sensitivity also gets restricted. Ah yes, circumcised = no gliding motion between foreskin and glans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VUBx5rXoFg&disable_polymer=1 … ….
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