From a professional perspective: pre-puberty circumcisions tend to work better than those later performed. Either works better than uncircumcised All averages, of course...
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Work better than uncircumcised in what way?
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For sexual purposes. Less chance of injury, more versatility in technique, less issues with unpleasant sensitivity, and reportedly lower chances of STDs. Guys circumcised young tend to grow into the jacket, older guys usually stuck with some loose ends.
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Is there evidence of this? Brits seem to do OK! I'm surprised something which caused problems with sex wouldn't have been dealt with by natural selection.
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Evidence would be hard to find. This is a politicized subject to put it mildly. What I say is purely my own experience. And NS only selects for items preventing reproduction. It doesn't get that bad.
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Even making it slightly more difficult or less effective should have been enough. Penises got optimised! That's why they have a plunger on the end! XD
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The plunger on the end is to extract competitors' sperm. That makes survival of your genes a lot more likely. Having to mess around with foreskin? Not an issue preventing fertilization.
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Exactly. Well, if it doesn't make sex even a little bit more difficult or tiny bit less successful, it can stay.
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Circumcision is all risk and zero reward.
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There was an interesting, frustrating discussion of this at Battle of Ideas last month. It was on the extent of parental freedom. One panelist was as committed to head-in-sand on infant male circumcision as James is here, in spite of evidence presented to him.
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You'd think that not copping bits off of children for no good reason would be the default position people have but apparently not
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