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I like my circumcised dick. Y’all can downvote me if you want.
I like your circumcised dick too!
I like any kind of dick, but I still don’t approve of pointless cosmetic surgery on infants. If he wants to be circumcised, let him grow up and decide for himself.
So, I actually have a friend who had not been who ended up having to have it done at 30 years old for medical reasons. Apparently the experience was pretty hellish.
I can imagine. The only reason people think it’s okay to do to infants is that they cannot complain about it at the time.
No but it is cruel and a gross violation of bodily autonomy that should have huge amounts of jail time attached.
OK but it is still a barbaric practice and I don’t see why we allow it. Just because it is culturally accepted does not make it OK.
“Sorry. We don’t read studies anymore. We’ve found the emotional inner knowledge of hunches and gut feelings appears to get us more money.” America under trump.
Who… how could… what?
… ah.
“Parents have been concerned about this potential circumcision-autism connection, but hopefully these findings may help allay their fears,” says senior author Monica McGrath, research professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Epidemiology…
Ah ok I understand now.
“Parents”.
Bigotry against autists is so extreme that idiot religious extremists will actually consider one of their more barbaric, senseless, cherished traditions as negotiable, relative to the utter ‘horror’ of their children potentially being autistic.
Right?‽ the logic of this is just so messed up on both ends
Stop cutting bits off children, you complete wrong uns.
Who else is fine with pretending it does if that results in fewer circumcisions?
I’m on board with that.
Nah, there are plenty enough confirmed reasons why this is bad.
But if you know one thing about conservatives, it is that they’ll whitewash everything they want. They won’t stop even if you say it causes autism, depression, or sudden death.
“Voting gives you autism!”
You’re against circumcision because you believe it causes autism.
I’m against circumcision because I believe genitally mutilating non-consenting infants is an atrocity.
We are not the same.
Well, better than not being against it…
Yeah, honestly if this is a psyop to return a little bit of humanity to the world then I’m alright with it
…did people think it did?
It’s such a weird thing to do a study on in 2026 given how many thousands of years of data we already have. Like if it made any difference at all it definitely would have been spotted by at least Roman times.
Tell the religious people that circumcision causes trans women. At least that one could make sense to someone who’s afraid of trans people.
Aren’t there literally people who were biologically male but raised as a girl due to botched circumcisions?
I think so. There are also some intersex people who were “modified” as a baby to be female, but heaven forbid waiting for the child to at least be cognizant.
Can we spread a lie that it does ?
Idk what else will stop people from mutilating their child’s genitals.
Culture needs to be developed where parents are explicitly asked are they mutalating their kids and feel the social pressure.
*mutilating, fyi
In the UK, the way they made it go out of fashion is make it so the national health insurance didn’t cover it anymore.
I think that could work here.
Wait one thing american insurance has no problem covering is penis mutilation? Looking at this more - it is true though not covered by medicaid or if you’re an adult. How fucking weird. I genuinely don’t understand this but my bad here for trying to rationally explain this.
can we still like, stop doing it though ?
No, sorry; tradition.
BuT tHe CeReAl MaN sAiD wE sHoUlD!!!1!
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It’s not mandatory, so… yes!
Still genital mutiliation and child sex abuse
Agree. I’m from Europe and I find it very weird how common it is in the US
It’s SO common in the US that while growing up I felt ashamed and incredibly self concious of being uncircumsized in high school showers. Life’s so strange.
Thankfully the millennial generation has started doing away with circumcising our children. Last time I checked, which was admittedly 10 years ago, the circumcision rates were closer to 50/50 in the US.
Update: It’s dropped below 50%!
“We reviewed over 1.5 million U.S. hospitalizations of male neonates, ages 0 to 28 days, during the period 2012 to 2022, and found that the overall prevalence of hospitalizations where a neonatal male circumcision was performed decreased significantly, from 54.1% to 49.3%,” says study co-senior author Aaron Tobian, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Decreases were observed across most patient and hospital subgroups, including whites — a group with traditionally high circumcision rates — where circumcisions dropped 5.3% over the decade studied.”
My husband started out with the “he should look like me…” and then quickly came around after a bit of reading. The Adam Ruins Everything on circumcision is great!
It’s good to know it’s moving toward not maiming kids. I’m afraid to ask about vaccination rates because my sister’s kids are of questionable status on that front, and my sister won’t talk about such things. Very alternative hippy type.
I wish the stats were even better than they are now honestly. I think it’s a horrendous practice.
It’s not really a thing outside the USA? At least not in Canada anymore. I’m one of a bunch of kids and about halfway through my siblings they stopped recommending it.
Confused the hell out of 8 year old me tasked with giving my 3 year old brother a shower.
you beat me to that exact phrase 👍
Yes bit it doesn’t cause autism so it’s not bad/wrong.
You needed a study to know that circumcising doesn’t cause brain structure differences?
This IS idiocracy.
Science!
Fuck yeah!
