inactivists are more motivated by the belief that male circumcision causes loss of sensation, not about conventional cost/benefit.
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Replying to @dkegel
Loss of sensation, loss of a functional body part, violation of physical autonomy in absence of med need, potential trauma are all factors.
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Replying to @MassBayIntact @dkegel
Also supposed benefits almost exclusively benefit adults, therefore the decision over amputation of sex organs should be left to the adult.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/09/intactivists_online_a_fringe_group_turned_the_internet_against_circumcision.html … covered the arguments more or less well, I think. I don't find the sexual sensation argument convincing, myself.
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Replying to @MassBayIntact @dkegel
Morten Frisch MD PhD has done groundbreaking work on the subject. Published several studies and articles:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/morten-frisch/time-for-us-parents-to-reconsider-the-acceptability-of-infant-male-circumcision_b_7031972.html …
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Replying to @MassBayIntact
He's a serious guy, but it doesn't change the fact that the thrust of the intactivist movement comes from sexuality, not from risk/benefit.
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Replying to @dkegel @MassBayIntact
The evidence does not support reduction in sexual satisfaction in circumcised males; see e.g. http://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/2015/07170/Examining_the_association_between_male.16.aspx …
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Replying to @dkegel @MassBayIntact
sexually pleasurable parts are destroyed by circumcision. That is the clearest form of reduction i can think of, they don't exist anymore!
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Replying to @stopcuttingboys @MassBayIntact
Not in my case. Absolutely zero pleasure comes from my foreskin.
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and i can find many men who disagree, the solution is to leave children alone and let adults decide for their own body
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