• ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I agree making the decision to circumcise based on appearance or ignorance about the benefits of having an intact foreskin is silly. I think there is an argument for circumcision at birth, in the US, where we don’t have free health care.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537143/#:~:text=It affects approximately 1 in,retract back over the penis

    I think the decreased risk of balanitis is worth the loss in nerve endings because it probably saves a decent number of uninsured families from having to pay expensive medical bills later. This national average is how much it can cost for adults apparently.

    https://www.mdsave.com/procedures/adult-circumcision/d781f9ce/california

    Just another reason for a single-payer healthcare system for the pile I guess.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCSWbTv3hng

    Adam mostly convinced me with his video on why people get circumcised in the US, but I did have a friend who got this infection and had to be circumcised later in life, not as an adult. And no it wasn’t me, I had a separate infection in one of my balls, but thankfully there was a pill for that. And neither of us live in biblical times, relative to us anyway.

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      is worth the loss in nerve endings because it probably saves a decent number of uninsured families from having to pay expensive medical bills later

      You’re disgusting, what the fuck is wrong with you.

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            I’m saying all people with penises getting circumcised in the US may have saved some people financial hardship later in life. I have no frame of reference to what I’m missing, so it probably isn’t as hard to think this for me. edit: typo

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                And cut off women’s breasts so they don’t get breast cancer! And cut off the criteria for some other reason!

                I’ll keep my foreskin and nerve endings thank you!

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                  Usually, balanitis is not too serious.

                  lol fuck off

                  EDIT Okay, imagine that if you cut off the tip of your tongue you can never get the stomach flu. Would you do it?

                  Would you do it to a baby?

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                    For reference, I’m circumcised. I don’t remember it. I doubt very few if any people actually remember their circumcision as a baby. Not saying circumcision is super great or something. But the US spent the last 100 years, and counting, doing it to people, so we might as well learn about it from a cost benefit angle with all the data we have. Whether or not anyone actually benefited from the practice seems like a worthwhile question to answer with data.

                    Stomach Flu is an interesting one. Here are some stats for Norovirus which causes stomach flu.

                    https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/burden.html#:~:text=1 in 110%2C000 will die,go to the emergency department

                    Norovirus does kill some people every year. I’m not sure what the threshold is for us all to cut off the tips of our tongues, but I’m guessing it’s greater than 900 people dying per year. I think it stands to reason if the mortality rate was high enough and cutting off the tips of our tongues saved a sizable portion of those people who would otherwise die, then people might do that to themselves, even babies. I guess it comes down to how we value our bodies and what is worth giving up for the sake of other people.

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              I’m saying all people with penises getting circumcised in the US may have saved some people financial hardship later in life

              Yeah wow, having a part of your body clipped away (often without anesthetics) is such a hardship saved. You’re a piece of shit.

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      And the risk to get it drasticly drops when you wash your dick. The fact that so many people get it, shows how few people wash their dick under the foreskin.

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        I was washing every night. And I assume my friend was too. Because we were kids, for better or worse, with helicopter parents. I assume people who live out on the street, don’t get regular showers.