Male Circumcision Is Good For Boys And Girls, it’s not a myth. My first piece for @KinBoxMag.https://www.kinbox.com/why-male-circumcision-is-good-for-kids/ …
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Fourth "Male circumcision, by comparison, is not banned anywhere." The fact a thing is legal does not make it right, does not make it any less of a mutilation. Slavery was still legal when medical circumcision started in the USA, we all accept that to have been wrong, don't we?
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Fifth - "There is a strong indication that the recent attempted ban was motivated by racial and religious intolerance" Lets see this evidence? Are you talking the letters written by the ADL? And if we're talking religious freedom, many Muslim sects believe that FGM is also >>
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Sixth - The simplest, and most honest, reason is that I am circumcised myself so it seems natural. It’s not something, in my opinion, that others should read too much into. - But it is. "Look like daddy" is the worst reason to circumcise a child. In my opinion.
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Seventh - "I simply thought, I had it done and I am fine, so my boys should also have it done" - What's your comparison? You had it done and you survived, you had it done and you still can have children, but you have no comparison. There are hundreds of boys who die of this >>
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8th - It really isn’t different from the many things parents indirectly impose on their children in the early years. - it is VERY VERY different. There is nothing else parents impose on children that cannot be undone. Don't want to eat broccoli as an adult, stop eating it. >>
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9th - "At no point did I think, I’ve had a piece of my penis removed and so I must punish my son by inflicting the same upon him" and "The simplest, and most honest, reason is that I am circumcised myself so it seems natural." not in those words, but you had a piece of your >>
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10th - "I could make a list of other things that my parents imposed on me that haunt me to this day. This is categorically not one of them." Good for you, it's the TOP of my list, it wasn't for years, not until I started meeting intact men as sexual partners. Then I realized >>
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11th - "So I researched it. I sought out comments by adult men who had had a circumcision later in life, and more importantly, by choice." How many of these men were making reports shortly after? Before any long term issues set in? More to the point, what is the effect of >>
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12th - 'One comment, though, drew my attention. The writer said that all four of his siblings had been circumcised but that he hadn’t, and that he had always felt “discomfort as a child”.' One story, I can show you hundreds, infact look at the men who responded here, myself >>
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13 - "circumcised men have an up to 60% lower risk of getting HIV from infected women." Blatantly false, first they didn't actually know who was sleeping with infected partners in this study, second because circumcision needs to heal, the men couldn't have sex for 10% of the >>
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14 - "Take the HPV virus which is the leading cause of cervical cancer – while men are not affected by the HPV virus, they are carriers and can transmit it to their partners." A recent study showed that circumcisised men in the USA were twice as likely to have the cancer >>
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15 - "after circumcision they reported lasting ten times longer than previously" - you call this a benefit, I call this a MAJOR downside. I often give up during sex, the physical feeling is just not there, I'm too exhausted after the first few HOURS to keep going. >>
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2> Cultures which practice FGM insist on many of the same benefits, from hygiene, reduced disease, smell. Studies have found an inverse correlation between FGM and HIV, except where in male studies where this was found they attribute it to biology, in women they say it's >>
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3> because they have less sex. None of the studies on HIV in Africa looked at conversion rates, just the binary conversion, perhaps circumcised men (particularly in the 18 months after their circumcision, the length of the study), also had less sex?
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Also I believe that "respected medical organisation or practitioner" is a bit of an issue, since anyone who DOES come out saying FGM has benefits immediately ceases to be respected.
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