• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    My atheist parents had me circumcised because at the time it was recommended for “health reasons”, and was common to do so at the time.

    I suppose this means I was a victim of child abuse?

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending circumcision, and my son isn’t for what that’s worth. But, They need to be careful how they word this law.

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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      If your parents had instead started a dramatic stretched piercing, would you see it differently? What if they made a pretty scarification pattern on your back?

      It is abuse, because it’s a permanent body modification with no medical purpose for which the child has not given consent. I think that for cultural reasons there does need to be protection so that estranged children who were snipped “for medical reasons” back in the day can’t go back and sue their parents, but the word “abuse” is accurate.

      Religious or not.

    • MontyGommo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’m in a similar boat (circumcised, kiddos aren’t). I do wish I wasn’t from a… sensitivity perspective? But I can’t argue about the ease of keeping it clean, and how pretty it looks all the time!

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        Gonna let you in on a secret, but uncut dicks aren’t hard to clean, like at all.

        And as for aesthetics, I much prefer them but that’s purely subjective. Some people like prince alberts, so I’m not gonna judge.

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        Ease of keeping it clean? So you wash your dick? Because that doesnt change wether your are circumcised or not…

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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        Yeah, Same boat.

        Let’s talk about how woman literally prefer it. No, really. Let’s talk about this.

        Lemmy and Reddit are full of white knights trying to fight for people who have no qualms with this.

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          We should not be altering the genitals of children because we think it looks better… how the fuck are you making that a controversial take.

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          Women preferring it is a cultural thing, if all the dicks you know are circumcised uncircumcised will look strange and vice versa.

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          Okay, but let’s then also talk seriously about routine infant labiaplasty. A lot of women prefer the look, and it’s a common cosmetic surgical procedure that many of them get later in life. If it were done at birth by a qualified medical practitioner, it wouldn’t harm the clitoris, but have the advantage of cleanliness and, while it hasn’t been studied extensively, preliminary results show some benefit in preventing disease. Seems like a great idea. Why don’t we do it?