Yes, but many more people have 'occasional' tonsillitis than chronic. I would guess that the percentage of men diagnosed with chronic balanitis is much smaller than those with a single, treatable case.
So you have an issue with private healthcare. I do too. Luckily I live in a country with a pretty nice public healthcare system too. But anyway, that’s getting sort of off-track. Should there be a total ban on circumcision or not?
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You do realise no one, literally no one, has argued circumcision should be banned outright. What we're arguing it should not be used until there are no other therapeutic options available, and that medical staff should be aware that circ should be an absolute last resort.
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A female's life would have to be in grave danger before a doctor would recommend cutting her genitals for any reason. The same should apply for boys.
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Nope, it’s always banned. No situation where it’s medically necessary or provides any benefits. That’s why we don’t apply the same standard, not because the government hates men.
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No it isn't. There's literally an entire academic journal about it. Here's an article where female genital cutting provides health benefits: https://journals.lww.com/jpelvicsurgery/Abstract/2013/03000/Labioplasty_for_Hypertrophic_Labia_Minora.12.aspx … It's like you haven't researched this at all but act like you have. Dunning-Kruger Effect in action. Ridiculous.
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Again with the ad hominem! It’s not that it bothers me, it’s just that calling me stupid isn’t going to make me agree. That girl had a hypertrophic labia. That means thick tissue, which is abnormal. Of course she suffered more infections. Now it looks like you didn’t research.
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Yeah, that's the point: she had an abnormality and she had it surgically rectified via genital cutting. That's fine. What's not fine is forcing genital cutting on healthy boys for no medical indication. You said female genital cutting is "always banned". It's not, as proven.
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That’s not female circumcision. That’s a labioplasty. I’m amazed that you went at me for “not knowing anything” and “not researching” and don’t know the difference. I’m a high schooler who wants to do medicine that has nothing to do with circumcision and I know the difference!
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Actually, you don't know the difference, then. The only reason that labiaplasty is justified is because it's therapeutic. Any cutting of the female genitalia, even a ceremonial pin prick, falls under the umbrella of FGM. Read up: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/02/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-circumcision-time-to-confront-the-double-standard/ …
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That's not what I said. I wrote it exactly how I meant it. Regardless, all medically unnecessary genital cutting should be restricted to consenting adults.
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