Look up "John Harvey Kellogg circumcision". A lot of the US obsession with cutting up baby penisses is because of him and his obsession with preventing boys from masturbating.
On Wikipedia, his supposed instigation and popularization of circumcision is listed as a common misconception. It still looks like he supported the practice at some point though
yeah the flesh of your genits is some of the stretchiest stuff you have on you. it’s like one week of uncomfortable wanks when you’re a teenager and then you’re set for life.
I've heard an american nurse's perspective who's had to clean uncircumsized children. What I gather is thar americans are so generally unhygenic and neglectful that it's extremely common for parents to bring in children for cleaning when things go wrong. She thinks circumscion is a medically sound option.
The american government thinks circumcision is a cost effective preventive measure, which makes sense if you've seen the price of healthcare. The rest of the world generally agrees that this practice isn't super effective, and it's primarily fueled by judaism and islam or aesthetic.
I'll spare the horror stories and scary diagrams for my fellow man. I'm against circumcision. Have you seen what it looks lile after surgery and how much pain the baby is in? The diaper hurts them.
We don't complain about having to clean baby girls. Not to mention the risk for irreversable damage that can reduce pleasure or be painful for life.
I think consenting individuals should participate in the anatomy of their body and not have that choice taken away by religious/lazy parents.
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Kennystillalive@feddit.org · 75 pts · 289d
Laughs in European.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 289d
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 289d
Christians don't cut off foreskins outside of the US!
TheBat@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 289d
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 288d
South Korea does it I think, some Australians too iirc
then_three_more@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 289d
What is it with yanks and cutting up babies dicks?
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 289d
Religious cult nonsense is the typical reason.
philycheeze@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 289d
And then it got so popular they decided it would be weird to stop 🙄
jali67@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 289d
It’s cool to be stupid and promote anti intellectualism in the US
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 26 pts · 289d
Look up "John Harvey Kellogg circumcision". A lot of the US obsession with cutting up baby penisses is because of him and his obsession with preventing boys from masturbating.
then_three_more@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 289d
Wasn't that why he invented corn flakes too?
jali67@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 289d
And unfortunately, many Americans don’t ever think or question anything. It just remained this way.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 289d
It didn't work.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 289d
That dude was a freak
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 289d
The Kellogg in Fallout 4 is his descendant
okr765@lemmy.okr765.com · 2 pts · 288d
On Wikipedia, his supposed instigation and popularization of circumcision is listed as a common misconception. It still looks like he supported the practice at some point though
chunes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 289d
They sell the foreskins.
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 289d
And you have to pay to have it removed!
Darukhnarn@feddit.org · 7 pts · 289d
I think it used to be about preventing masturbation?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 289d
Lol you'd think they would have figured out pretty quick that it didn't work
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 289d
At this point it's mostly just to match the dad.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d
more carry overs from judaism; so much of the bible carries over
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 288d
Idk I got one because im Jewish, soon the entire thing will be cut off >:3
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 289d
Christian radicals I think.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 289d
Wait until you learn about Oral Suction Circumcisions
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 289d
Neonatal genital herpes isn't going to spread itself.
oeuf@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 289d
Extremely disturbing. I'm shocked this is legal.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 289d
Do I want to know?
db2@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 289d
You really don't.
Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 289d
Is there like an evil version of TIL? Because I just went to the Wikipedia article about this practice and I wish I hadn't done that.
rapchee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 289d
TIWCTL, or today i was cursed to learn
TheBat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 289d
yeather@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 289d
Oy vey calling out pedophiles is antiseptic.
Zozano@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 289d
Oy vey!
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 289d
Oral what now?
glorkon@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 289d
I suspect circumcision is a devious, elaborate conspiracy by the lotion industry.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 289d
Dude, grow up and use lube like an adult instead of hurting yourself.
glorkon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 289d
I don't have to use anything cause I live in a civilized place where parents don't mutilate their children.
rapchee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 289d
oooooh the lube is for the helmet
i never understood the need for lube when jerking it in the states, now it makes sense
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 289d
It's really not necessary imo
yuri@pawb.social · 1 pts · 288d
yeah the flesh of your genits is some of the stretchiest stuff you have on you. it’s like one week of uncomfortable wanks when you’re a teenager and then you’re set for life.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 289d
Also intersex kids. Obviously their bodies aren't sacred. Only binary cis people.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 289d
I thought only medically necessary surgeries are done?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 289d
Medically necessary to the doctor or parents' idea of binary gender. Yes.
yuri@pawb.social · 2 pts · 288d
that would make sense, right?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 288d
Seriously. Why would you think that?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 10 pts · 289d
Where else do you get calamari?
Gaja0@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 289d
I've heard an american nurse's perspective who's had to clean uncircumsized children. What I gather is thar americans are so generally unhygenic and neglectful that it's extremely common for parents to bring in children for cleaning when things go wrong. She thinks circumscion is a medically sound option.
The american government thinks circumcision is a cost effective preventive measure, which makes sense if you've seen the price of healthcare. The rest of the world generally agrees that this practice isn't super effective, and it's primarily fueled by judaism and islam or aesthetic.
I'll spare the horror stories and scary diagrams for my fellow man. I'm against circumcision. Have you seen what it looks lile after surgery and how much pain the baby is in? The diaper hurts them.
We don't complain about having to clean baby girls. Not to mention the risk for irreversable damage that can reduce pleasure or be painful for life.
I think consenting individuals should participate in the anatomy of their body and not have that choice taken away by religious/lazy parents.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 288d
The idea that baby boys are hard to clean and the healthcare excuse are both propaganda created by Christian fundamentalist groups.
It's not necessary in any way and is even considered unethical in many parts of the world.
https://www.galdef.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Welch-Erasing-Foreskin-JBSM-2024.pdf
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 289d
Wait til you hear about intersex babies.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 289d
King David in the corner:
DoctorPress@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 288d
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 288d
I WANT MY FORESKIN BACK
20,000 LOST NERVE ENDINGS
A LIFETIME OF LOW SENSITIVITY AND MID ORGASMS.
SOMEONE DESERVES TO DIE FOR THIS.
biotin7@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 288d
Should we trend the hashtag CircumcisionIsKnifeRape ?
notthebees@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 289d
Not the pencil sharpening
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 288d
I mean... They clearly believe in god and god told them to do that.
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 288d
Says the fat fuck alcoholic on his second liver transplant popping ed pills and finastrade to cling to his last morsel of relevancy.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -25 pts · 288d
Uncircumcised dicks look weird AF.
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 288d
Yeah the natural thing is the thing that looks weird. Not random genital mutilation of infants. Totally.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 286d
Maybe but unless you live in one of those countries where it's normal, you should do what's right for your kid so they feel normal.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 288d
Only because circumcised dicks are normalized by how common infant genital mutilation is.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 288d
It is what happens when you live in a country where the only type of sexual education is watching porn.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 286d
You are African? I don't mean that type of circumcision.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 285d
I am not.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 288d
Brainwashed instead of dick washed?