• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    It’s interesting that the pro circumcision crowd who rant about hygiene don’t support girls having their labia cut off to prevent grime from accumulating between the folds. Circumcision should be reserved for actual medical reasons, like phimosis, and if possible at age of consent.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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      If you don’t wash behind your ears, bacteria will grow and cause it to smell. By their logic, they should be chopping off ears as well.

      The purpose of circumcision is to make maturation and sex less pleasurable as it removes about 1/3 of sensory nerves and meant to make it more difficult to masturbate because you can’t just pull on tight skin. You can still perform the basic acts of sex and masturbation, but it’s not as pleasurable. Likewise, one can still hear without ears even if it’s not as good as those with intact ears.

      Just goes to show how insane these people are.

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        Jeez, if you make masturbation MORE pleasurable, teenage boys will never get anything done. It would single-handedly (pun not intended, but I’ll take it) crash the gaming industry.

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        6 hours ago

        As a young child I didn’t know I had to wash between my toes, and I got athletes foot.

        If only a kind doctor had cut all my toes off when I was born.

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        You are meant to wash under the foreskin obviously but only with water. Soap is generally considered too harsh for that area

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          But obviously there are times one uses soap. It’s part inside, part outside. You have to keep outside out of inside.

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      5 hours ago

      and if possible at age of consent.

      While I agree with the majority of the argument, I don’t agree with this point. Age of consent is mainly a political thing, disregarding the actualities involved with teenagers and sexual life, and discrediting those who have problems before that set age.

      Biologically, pubescence which is around 13 is where this decision should be undertaken, as this is the point where the individual is sexually mature.

      Medical problems start before the age of consent so the individuals which are sexually mature should have the option to treat this condition.