I said chronic balanitis, not balanitis. Tonsillitis is treatable and avoidable but if you’re prone to getting it often (chronic) you get recommended to have your tonsils removed.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @Vegaytarier and
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.
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Replying to @JazhuStreaming @_Undersized_ and
And if all other avenues have been exhausted, and circumcision is all that's left, then it's a medical procedure.
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Replying to @JazhuStreaming @Vegaytarier and
You’ll find (by reading all of the replies I’ve written) that I agree with you. That’s why the idea that surgery should be considered before anything else isn’t my argument. I’m arguing that it is a medical procedure and has multiple valid uses, unlike female circumcision.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @Vegaytarier and
If you to argue that, I would argue then that it should be used as a last resort 'treatment', never as a prophylactic procedure. I'd like doctors to stop recommending it so quickly. It gives people the impression it's the best way to treat these problems.
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Replying to @JazhuStreaming @Vegaytarier and
It’s not presented like that, they ask you and according to HIPAA they have to give you the pros and cons. Educate the parents, don’t blame the doctors for doing their job. It’s not like they enjoy extra work.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @JazhuStreaming and
Doctor's jobs are not performing unnecessary surgeries or genital mutilations. And doctors have the ethics education to know what they are doing is wrong.
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Replying to @Gregory_Malchuk @JazhuStreaming and
They don’t just “perform it”, they *have* to ask the parents. Blame them, not the poor doctor who has to listen to the baby wail.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @JazhuStreaming and
Not historically. And they still bully parents. They fact that they present it as an option ITSELF is loaded. They don't "offer" ANY unnecessary surgeries on female genitals. I thought you claimed to be opposed to "circumcision for no reason" which ARE these cases.
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Replying to @Gregory_Malchuk @JazhuStreaming and
You cant use justification of past instances of an idea and assume the justification is the same now. There is no benefit in female circumcisions, but in males you drastically reduce urethral infection chances. That's enough reason to ask, and the parents are the ones saying yes.
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Actually, circumcision increases UTIs in boys https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20929075 1% risk of a UTI in an intact male vs. circumcising him creates a 2% risk hemorrhaging and infection https://adc.bmj.com/content/90/8/853.short … Meanwhile, girls get UTIs at a rate five-fold that of boyshttps://www.aafp.org/afp/1998/0401/p1573.html …
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