Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet?

ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But it’s cleaner and easier to manage

  Both complete lies btw

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  • forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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      • forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        It’s not a big deal to clean, but it does require a little extra care, yeah

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      • essell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Sometimes cleaning it is the best part of my day

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  • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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