I wish i was talking about a vasectomy. I had testicular torsion at 17 and a priapism at 24. Both very unpleasant to have resolved
Oh shit, that’s awful. I’m sorry you had to go through that.
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Not necessarily, but I think the individual should be given the choice (when they’re old enough to make it) instead of having it forced upon them at birth. I had it done to me twice when I was younger, the second time being when I was around 5, pretty scary shit when you’re kid…
Yeah as someone who has had multiple downstairs mixups that require the hospital, most people are going to pass on getting their shit sliced up if given the chance. I'm glad they did that shit when i couldn't remember it because I've had to be awake for other stuff and it was unpleasant
If you’re taking about a vasectomy that sucks man, I had it done this past summer and was given some valium, and just chatted with the nurse and doctors. Doctor was super attentive though and when I let him know there was any pain at all he injected more local.
As far as circumcision, I’m snipped but I’m against it. The only reason it became prevalent was as an anti-masturbatory thing. Sure it’s marginally easier to keep clean, but the difference is marginal and certainly doesn’t warrant mutilation.
It’s really like asking if you’d support removing ear lobes. It marginally makes it easier to keep clean and they don’t really serve a function, so why not?
As someone who isn’t from the US this is fascinating to me. I thought this was a Jewish thing, plus maybe a few cases where it was medically necessary, but from this thread it sounds like people just do it to their kids because…? Like what are the percentages of cut to not cut in the US?
Estimates have put it as high as 76-92% of males over here; it seems to vary by demographic. The CDC puts it at 65% in 1979 and it fell to 58% in 2010. Either way it’s still over half.
Back in the 1800s it was thought masturbating caused a whole host of illnesses, from mental to physical. Jonathan Hutchinson and Lewis Sayre promoted it as a deterrent to masturbation, with Sayre claiming Jewish men had far fewer STDs.
Britain, upon founding the NHS, actually did the sensible thing and looked at whether medical procedures were actually beneficial, and realized that the risks outweighed the benefits and so it wasn’t covered, essentially cause it was a waste of money. The US didn’t have any such review so it still was recommended by doctors, even up to today. Apparently the US finally made similar statements that it gave no medical benefit in the 70s but didn’t recommend against it. The current standing is that the benefits outweigh the risks.
So yeah, it’s all grounded in pseudoscience that masturbation makes you less healthy, and it’s backed up in peoples’ minds by the fact that if you don’t teach your child how to clean properly, smegma can become a problem. When it’s pointed out that the same is true for women people just wave it off.