Here's a study on the subject of preputioplasty that "confirms its low rate of postoperative complications and its good results in terms of preputial retractability and cosmetic outcomes". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539601/ … I also found another cool one I'm going over now
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Replying to @KhazWolf @_Undersized_ and
Actually the thing I was reading isn't quite finished yet, here's a clinical trial still in progress for the rest of this year: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02854995 … Guess I'll keep an eye on that
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Replying to @KhazWolf @_Undersized_ and
Another one, suggesting preputioplasty is a "good alternative" to circumcision: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0090429508008467 … And another! https://www.fimose.org/uploads/6/5/5/4/65544215/preputioplastyinchildren.pdf … "Preputioplasty is a faster, easier, relatively painless technique with excellent cosmetic results and lesser complications than" circ
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @Gregory_Malchuk and
I'm not saying it's impossible for a circumstance to occur where it could be an option, but it should be treated like cutting off an arm: an extreme solution to extreme problems when every other option has failed. Such would be absurdly rare. Routine circumcision is abhorrent
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @Gregory_Malchuk and
Amputation of normal functional tissue is mutilation. That's why amputation is considered a last resort for treatment in general. Sometimes in extenuating circumstances it's required to "mutilate" the body to prevent even greater damage or death.
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Replying to @KhazWolf @_Undersized_ and
The point here is... The vast majority of American circumcisions are for no medical reason whatsoever. And the vast majority of circumcisions that ARE for a medical reason are for a reason that's invalid (preventing STDs), or a reason that can be cured with less invasive means.
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Replying to @KhazWolf @_Undersized_ and
I'm not saying it's impossible for it to be necessary to remove a foreskin. Just like we might need to lose a finger or a leg or an eye. But we should regard the loss of this extremely sensitive, pleasurable, functional valuable tissue the same as any other part of our body.
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Finland is the baseline for medically necessary genital mutilation of males (since it is never done routinely there)--1 in 16,000 cases
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