If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet?Submitted 2 weeks ago by FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world to [deleted]
There are memes like “when you have to prove that you’re jewish” or crass jokes about people standing out due to their lack of foreskin, but i remember hearing that a huge swathes of American men are circumcised - it’s like 49%. Jesus.
If literally half of every men are circumcised, why is it even a remarkable topic to Americans? How did it become such a meme?
I wonder what kind of parent is okay with sexually mutilating their child. That sounds just fucked up.
Here Rabbi, bite the tip of my infants penis off. Crazy isn’t it?
I fear every religion and society that imposes that on children suffers from a very sordid case of “author’s kink”. If you’re born with it and are not suffering from it, there is absolutely no fucking reason in the universe to cut out the foreskin of a boy or the clitoris of a girl. What the absolute fuck, mankind.
It’s viewed as either a cultural or religious tradition. Both of these are hard to pull your head away from once you’re raised in that situation, but it is possible. There are likely some cultural or religious practices most of us follow that might be viewed as bad by the masses in a few generations, like eating meat. Or at least lamb/veal.
It’s only 49‰? Color me surprised.
Color me surprised.
Such a batman-villain-esque line. The riddler, meet the colourer
- Americans are a minority on the internet
Unless you’re american?
That’s true but it just seems to me that they lead the way in those kinds of memes.
Genital mutiliation shouldn’t be normalized
exactly.
My parentd abided by a religion that I barely know jack shit about and will never know jackshit about… (because Im an atheist)
Yet, I STILL have to live with permanent genital mutilation cause of THEIR religion… why? Why is the canadian government OK with this? Honestly why is ANY government OK with this set up?
The logic aint ‘logicing’
THIS is why Im an intactivist . THIS is why we need faaar better sex education that illegalizes Male, Female and Intersex Genital Mutilation!
Study of Danish men shows that amongst about 800,000 men tested those who were circumcised had higher STD and HIV rates
link.springer.com/article/…/s10654-021-00809-6
Study of almost 400 men shows that after circumcision more of them reported having more difficulty achieving orgasm and masturbating than before pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17155977/
histological study of 26 men showed that the foreskin was the most neurologically sensitive part of the penis. The foreskin also played a part in protecting the glan of the penis from rubbing against clothing that made it more sensitive in those with a foreskin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/…/joa.13481
Intact America Survey finds that the majority of mothers who were prompted to give their son a circumcision accepted meanwhile the majority who were not did not give their son a circumcision. mothers were asked on average 8 times if they wanted to circumcise their son. Soft sells,” such as being handed a consent form, increased circumcisions by 137%. Instead mothers should be given informational materials on how to clean theirvintact son’s foreskin. the foreskin will correctly retract after late puberty intactamerica.org/press-release-having-a-baby-boy…
American Academy of Pediatrics representatives get grilled on questions that have to do with the functionality of the foreskin AND OF COURSE, they cannot answer them. Because they’re corrupt bribed shills!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUU6g_hoGvU
researchgate.net/…/334636997_Perversion_and_Perpe…
A study of nearly 200 adolescents from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa show overwhelming ridicule of those who have an intact penis and a ton of misinformation. Women believed that men who had a circumcision could be more promiscuous and that having a circumcised penis improved the sexual health of all partners involved in sex. Men reported a widespread support from female lovers to get a circumcision. There is no evidence that male genital mutilation or circumcison leads to significant increases in pleasure or decreases in disease transmission rates . The circumcision propaganda machine is clearly working!
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5888916/
according to the CDC and what they examined amongst men in the USA at least. The rates for breast cancer and penile cancer in men are actually about the same.
www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/men/index.htm
gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/Trends/
www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/basic_info/index.htm#%3…
healthline.com/…/cancer-of-the-penis-is-rare-but-…
Therefore, In men preventative mastectomies against breast cancer are more justifiable than circumcisions as preventative measures against penile cancers.
(And also yes being bigger or having more skin does increase your odds of getting some cancers as having more skin cells increases your odds of getting cancer… but I doubt that penile cancer is one of them - www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34515952)
"Does Circumcision Reduce Men’s Sexual Sensitivity? " Sham article that was ‘medically reviewed’ by a person who…is a writer that majored in English!? HOW!? We don’t see people who majored in mathematics medically reviewing articles, right? So why should people who majored in English be the ones to medically review stuff??! We should have had a surgeon or doctor medically reviewing all human anatomy articles
psychologytoday.com/…/does-circumcision-reduce-me…
www.circumstitions.com/resent-celebs.html#affleck
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/…/article-p9.xm…
docs.google.com/document/d/…/edit
You can’t even trust the wrold health organization for accurate information on male genital mutilation and circumcisions since they are biased and ahve blood money from bill gates and melinda foundation
en.intactiwiki.org/…/World_Health_Organization#ci…
Posts and surveys from hundreds of people showing their anger against having had been circumcised.
www.circumstitions.com/Resent.html
The ridiculousness of male circumcision
dovepress.com/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-…
AccorDing to the Circumcision Information and Resources Pages, studies they have reviewed have shown that circumcision laeds to problems like premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, and less marital and sexual satisfaction
A heroic website created by women who talk about how their partner’s circumcision has negatively impacted their lives
drmomma.org/…/how-male-circumcision-impacts-women…
Phimosis: Stretching Methods with or without Application of Topical Steroids?
www.jpeds.com/article/…/fulltext
The penises of mutilated boys of the Ulwaluko tribe who are forced to undergo circumcision from a young age in unhygenic settings by unprofessional surgeons (VERY NSFW)
en.intactiwiki.org/wiki/Ulwaluko#Ulwaluko_photos_…
“There Are 20 Different Penis Types — and They’re All Important” SHAM article written by a quack which downplays the terrors of circumcision. Even in the article they recommend that circumcised penises should most likely use lubrication for masturbation…right after saying that circumcised penises function similarly to uncircumcised ones!? wooot!? Another SHAM article that’s what!
www.healthline.com/health/types-of-penises#penis-…
Lost Boys: An Estimate of USA Circumcision-Related Infant Deaths
academia.edu/…/Lost_Boys_An_Estimate_of_U.S._Circ…
Numerous cases Of chidren having their penises burned and severed off as a result of a botched unnecessary circumcision process
intaction.org/botched-circumcision-baby-loses-pen…
Doctor Accidentally Lasers Off Boy’s Penis During Circumcision
www.menshealth.com/health/…/laser-circumcision/
Boy who was forced to live as a woman after their genitals had been seriously damaged in a botched circumcision in Canada
canadiancrc.com/…/Globe_and_Mail_Boy_raised_as_gi…
There has also been a connection found between delayed ejaculation and circumcision. Some men with circumcised penises have found that the suffer from delayed ejaculation as a result of the numbness sci-hub.se/10.1111/and.12101
According to a small survey the prevalence of death-grip syndrome , which is a serious destruction of nerves in the penis due to harsh masturbation, is moreso prevalent in circumcised men than in non circumcised men.
joseph4gi.com/…/death-grip-and-circumcision-is-th… I for one have suffered from death-grip syndrome even though Im a virgin so let me give you what information I have gathered about it from myself: The foreskin is a massive organ remember! It covers the whole of the penile shaft from the meatus to the testicles and it slides back and forth and acts as a natural protector and solid lubricator for the penile shaft during masturbation or intercourse. Men with no foreskin tend to be gripping the the unprotected urethral shaft , which is not meant to be tightly gripped at all one should note, just as tightly as they would a protected one. That unprotected urethral shaft over time WILL receive thousands of microinjuries and destroyed nerves over time. The loss of nerves in that region means that a man has to grip the unprotected urethral shaft harder and Harder and **HAAARDER ** every time they masturbate and this damage eventually results in a loss of stimulation. I am sure there are many women out there who suffer from dead vagina syndrome which was made worse by THEIR unconsensual circumcision!
metro.co.uk/…/need-know-dead-vagina-syndrome-7156…
And finally a study of over 100 men proved that a circumcised penis is FAR less sensitive than a uncircumcised one in the ventral scar and glans of a penis because the foreskin protects the man’s ventral scar AND glans from unwanted overstimulation (like when a man’s glan is rubbing against his pants on a shaky bus ride) and environmental damage (like water running down his urethra during a shower) - sci-hub.se/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06685.x It is possible that circumcised women ALSO experience a decrease in stimulation to the clitoris without the clitoral hood due to , once again, overstimulation and environmental damage and it is possible that a woman gets her clitoral hood chopped off in a unconsensual circumcision. Heck some women have reported having their ENTIRE clitoris butchered off during their genital mutilation! …I believe, and I’m sure most men agree with me, that a woman and all other non-males has the right to be born with and grow up wit h a vagina that is unharmed and unadulterated and gives her as much sensitivity, freedom and pleasure as she wants. Now, why do I so many men not have this right to having a protection against over stimulation and environmental damage?! In this case men, women , and non-binary peoples are ALL are getting fucked over equally by genital mutilators!
Study of almost 400 men shows that after circumcision more of them reported having more difficulty achieving orgasm and masturbating than before
This is, unfortunately, the reason it was originally done
Good lord this may as well be a peer reviewed article behind a pay wall. Good stuff.
Thank you very much for sharing
It might be hard to wrap your head around it, but there are people on the internet who are not from the US.
Bullshit.
Next you’re gonna tell me there are actually girls here, too.k
No, not here specifically
The girls are on tik tok comparing themselves to other girls
Because it’s an immoral act to impose it on anyone without consent and barbaric to subject an infant to it.
We’re not all American
I think it’s clearly american-led. The fellow I linked was American.
You misspelled male genital mutilation.
I feel like I you answered your own question.
If roughly half of all American men are circumcised, then that means that there is a predictable binary status men can hold in that regard. People will focus on a dichotomy simply because it exists.
In my experience, the strongest critics of MGM are victims of circumcision. There are some brainwashed people too who don’t see what the big deal is, but people with normal penises (and women) don’t seem to care much one way or the other.
I was circumcised and my penis seems to work just fine. I do have to say that I couldn’t care much less about the topic.
Yes, ironic that I clicked this thread at all, but I’m bored.
im surprised its just half. Im in a major metro area and unless there is something about circumcision that gets you to go to the gym more I would say its much higher in my area. Im pretty sure most every catholic in my area has it done.
Probably from the Northeast or Great lakes area then? It’s half the US population, but it’s not evenly distributed. It’s much less common on the west coast.
ok yeah. that would explain it.
If literally half of every men are circumcised, why is it even a remarkable topic to Americans? How did it become such a meme?
Because the other half are bigots.
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.
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.
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
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
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?