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  • Genital mutilation under the guise of ā€œeasier to cleanā€ is stupid. Cutting off your legs also makes them easier to clean.

    • I've seen people lose their shit over babies with pierced ears and young children getting tattoos. There's all sorts of dental work you go through as a kid that you have functionally no control over.

      Even had someone chew me out because a foster kid I was taking care of got a haircut (three years old and she'd literally never had one before).

      At some point, it is the parent's duty to take care of the child, and that extends to medical decisions with profound long-term consequences. I get wanting to change the culture, but the degree to which people exaggerate the harm of circumcision struggles to eclipse the degree to which it is defended.

      Cutting off your legs also makes them easier to clean.

      There is some substantive utility to legs that doesn't extend to the bit of flesh around the tip of your dick.

    • What's even funnier to me is how people will full on rage when someone brings up female genital mutilation while in the same breath saying circumcision is fine

      • Dude, yeah. Itā€™s so weird.

        I refused circumcision for my son (25 years ago, US hospital), and had to remind the staff several times because it was just assumed it would be done. I stopped them 3 times during different shifts when they were about to take him from our room for the procedure.

        Then when it came up in conversation when he was an infant, people would say to me ā€˜you should have done itā€™, because he would get infections (he never did), or heā€™d be bullied in gym showers (he never did to my knowledge), or whatever. My take was it should be his decision, not mine.

        The pressure was really intense, though. Itā€™s weird how interested people can be in someone elseā€™s infantā€™s penis. Weā€™ve never talked about it, but reading stories from other men, I assume heā€™s happy being uncut, and Iā€™m glad I didnā€™t do it.

        e: for anyone reading this days later, I did ask my son for his opinion prompted by this conversation, mostly because of responses I got elsewhere in this thread that made me question my decision:

        Me: Hey man, so feel free not to answer this if itā€™s too personal, but I was having a debate about circumcision and another parent challenged me saying Iā€™d made the wrong decision. So yes/no/I donā€™t want to talk about it cuz thatā€™s weird, do you regret my decision?

        Son: I donā€™t, and none of my partners have, either. I only get thumbs up and compliments. I hope that wasnā€™t too personal.

        Me: Not at all. Thank you for giving me your and your partnersā€™ review!

        So yeah, itā€™s not just my assumptions. And no regrets.

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