Is the NHS carrying out thousands of unnecessary circumcisions on teenage boys? New report shows irreversible surgery is carried out 10,000 times per year

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  2. It’s an appalling, anachronistic relic popularised by idiot religious doctrine and long discredited medical disinformation that is, no matter how you attempt to approach it, a genital mutilation.

    How any woman can consent to this I’ll never be able to understand. Imagine spending 9 months of your life growing a child inside of you, 9 months of consideration, care and sacrifice, taking all the right steps to ensure the optimal health of your child.

    And then they’re born, pink and wriggling and absolutely perfect… and the first thing you think about is the logistics of maiming that perfection and having their penis mutilated asap. Barbarism.

  3. Isn’t it cleaner to remove he foreskin? I always understood that germs and bacteria can grow under the foreskin.

  5. I’m one of those rare people who was circumcised
    in adulthood for medical reasons, so I’ve got half a lifetime pre-op to compare against.

    Really regret going through with the doctor’s suggestion.

    The difference in sensitivity down there post-op is huge. You lose a load of nerve endings so orgasms are much less intense. Having no foreskin also makes it much less pleasurable to masturbate, particularly where the skin becomes really tight around the scar.

    If you ever have an alternative to circumcision, I really urge you to take it. A lifetime of pills/creams would be better than what’s lost.

  6. I don’t want to click the article, can someone link the report the headline is referencing? There are a few medical conditions that make it necessary to remove the foreskin, but I have no idea how common those are.

  7. Unless the patient has a condition where circumcision may be needed, such as Phimosis, there is **no reason** to be lobbing parts off their penis.

  8. Isn’t it uncommon in the UK ? I know Americans are completely obsessed with doing this to their children but I was of the impression that it is not really a thing the UK does, apart from religious reasons or medical purposes. Due to this I thought the majority of UK men were uncut ?

  10. Depends why they’re doing it

    Religious/religious cultural reasons? Yes its unnecessary

    Medically indicated for conditions not responding to other treatments? Justified.

  11. I just started a new job doing circumcisions. The pay is poor but I get to keep the tips…..

    Wouldn’t it be male genital mutilation to do this to children who cannot give consent?

  13. I’m Muslim and pretty devout and I think that it should m be made into a private practice thing if its being done for non medical reasons, if not banned or right till child can consent

  14. If it’s not for health reasons, then one is one too many. By the way, how much does it cost the national insurance payer each time?.

  15. At the risk of fedposting, I like to ask people to imagine any other context where a baby has part of their genitals cut off for cosmetic reasons, and ask them what they think the legal penalty should be. General consensus seems to be the death penalty not only for the person carrying it out but anyone else who aids and abets them, including (especially) the parents or guardian. Food for thought.

  16. Circumcision should only be used as a medical intervention for issues such as phimosis.

    People who mutilate children for tradition ought to be jailed.

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