I believe mutilating/modifying anyone else's body, including a child, should be illegal. But that's just me.
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Replying to @BoreasBear @Frute_Brute
Despite the fact that it has no demonstrable negative effects, may even have (minor) positive health effects, and is a sacred traditional and religious practice of millions of Jews and Muslims? I wouldn't choose it for myself/my child, but making it illegal seems rather extreme.
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Replying to @2ishta @BoreasBear
At least give the child a choice to make the decision for themselves once they hit puberty or some older age. As for the health ‘benefits’ I guess it just makes hygiene easier. I just have to be more hygienic than a standard American male :3
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Replying to @Frute_Brute @BoreasBear
i remember seeing someone tell their story of getting circumcised later on b/c being uncircumcised was giving them health problems (something bout it not being able to fully retract(?), it wasn't like lack of hygiene), & the exp. of getting it done later in life making it painful
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Yes that is the condition known as phimosis. King Louis XVI is said to have had phimosis and had to undergo a circumcision so he and the Queen could have an heir to the throne.
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Replying to @Frute_Brute
I think that was the name, yeah. It sounded very painful. And I think for them it just never went away so they had to get it ('cuz I mean they were in like their mid-late 20s I assume). I'm just glad I wouldn't have had to worry about that, esp. reading that it's common.
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Replying to @_lightling @Frute_Brute
Basically it just sounds like hygiene isn't the only health benefit.
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Replying to @_lightling
Phimosis effects less than 200,000 people a year and is considered a ‘rare’ condition. So I’d say that’s a benefit of necessity
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Replying to @Frute_Brute
OH I misread something, it said the tightness was common in children and is what usually went away, not that the actual condition was common, my bad lmao
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Replying to @_lightling @Frute_Brute
Every boy is born with a tight foreskin, which is actually connected to the glans by a membrane of tissue, that tissue will break and dissolve over time naturally and the skin itself will grow and loosen. by the age of 17 only 1% of boys will have any issues with tightness.
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Unless there was damage, scarring raises the likelihood of phimosis. But all the things circumcision is believed to help are rare enough that they shouldn't justify doing it on infants before they have a problem. Particularly when most don't happen until adulthood, like phimosis.
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