When you teach a kid how to clean themselves in the bath you teach them how to clean each body part with no shame. How hard is that to manage.
Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet?
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 2 weeks ago
I got pushback when I told my ex and docs no to chopping my kid despite having been so myself.
‘But it’s cleaner and easier to manage…’
Don’t care, unless you can give a medical need reason he can make that choice as an adult if he wants.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the proper attitude.
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
So did I but I got overruled because I don’t have a penis therefore I don’t know what I’m talking about. His cries still haunt me and it’s one of my biggest regrets. I should have thrown a bigger fit but I’d just done 3 days of active labor.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 2 weeks ago
That’s a damn crime, both ethically in discrediting your view, and I would guess legally if they literally went ahead despite the protests of a parent?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Both complete lies btw
Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The one “truth” is that it “reduces the risk of cancer”… Because technically chopping anything off reduces the risk of cancer, because that thing can no longer get it.
However foreskin cancer is not exactly a high cause for concern, and by this logic cutting off your ears and nose would be more logical.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also not necessarily correct, foreskin protects from chafing and other similar micro fissures that happen daily for people without foreskin (as shown by the person above you having issues running). And while removing a part of you does lower the chances of getting cancer there, if it’s protecting another part of you from something it can increase the risk of cancer on that other part.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah fair point.
There’s probably studies/data on some of this, but for a thinly veiled argument that people use in bad faith I wasn’t going to go that in depth.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
It’s definitely easier to manage the sccccccchhhhmegma without the ol smegma catcher being present, but I didn’t get my son circ’d because running in gym shorts when you’re fat, with a little acorn pointing straight forward, can lead to sphincter chaffing … and I’m not very fond of that feeling. I didn’t want to pass it down to him.
I hope he goes on to become a fast runner without the threat of penile chaffing. Good luck, my son, should you ever read this after I’m doxd
timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I shower everyday and never have cheese dick… You just pull it back when you’re cleaning it. It’s one extra hand movement. I don’t see how one is easier or cleaner than the other tbh
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i don’t shower every day and i’ve still never had dick cheese, i’m frankly not sure if it’s actually a medical condition that people just think is normal…
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Probably same folks that say mouth wash is too difficult.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
It’s not a big deal to clean, but it does require a little extra care, yeah
essell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sometimes cleaning it is the best part of my day