There is something extremely screwed up going on in U.S. hospitals ~3,000 times a day, 1.1 million times a year, going almost completely unreported. People tend to ignore it, minimize it, rationalize it, make jokes about it.
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"I’ll never forget that look. They probably shattered every bit of trust he had." / "I will go to my grave hearing that horrible wail" / "If I had ever known, I wouldn’t have done this in a million years."
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If you are especially unlucky, your circumcision will be botched. You may lose your penis entirely, bleed to death, or suffer from an infection that kills you.https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/complications/ …
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Deaths are attributed to something else to cover up the cause http://www.cirp.org/library/death/ /https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhj750kn-HI …
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What happens later in life? You discover you've lost 10-20,000 nerve endings, that your glans shouldn't be keratinized, that women generally prefer intact penises, and that sex is probably going to feel worse for both partners http://sciencenordic.com/male-circumcision-leads-bad-sex-life … / http://www.notjustskin.org/node/59
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In some cases, "persistent discomfort from contact with clothing throughout their lives" https://www.circinfo.org/Warren.html
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Many develop PTSD and can't speak up because they suffer from crippling symptoms when they think about it. Imagine a system of intergenerational child abuse that could do this! It's already been here for thousands of years. https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/psychological-impact/ …pic.twitter.com/T06CJdsaAs
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Apply the reversal test: imagine the world without circumcision "grandfathered in" from thousands of years ago. If someone invented it in 2018 and started performing it on newborns, what would we think of it?
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Think about how bad the STD justification is: forcing all the downsides for some tiny chance of benefit decades from now. There's no time machine for future STD risk. If he wants it, he can consent to it as an adult.
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Pretty much no one enjoys talking about this. But is the discomfort of talking about it worse than yet another person being subjected to a lifetime of dealing with the consequences of circumcision? I don't think so.
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If you haven't already seen it, Eric Clopper's excellent show covers the history of circumcision, the functions of the foreskin, and the AAP's garbage report (at the 1 hour mark):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuy163srRc …
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Thank you
@clopdads and Momma Michelle and@sullydish for inspiring me to start speaking out about this and I hope to be more useful in the futureShow this thread -
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