Infant circumcision should be banned in most cases

Started by SatanLucy ·

Those who support infant circumcision say that it helps prevent STD and prostate cancer, offering health benefits, basically, as well as being a requirement of some religions.


Those who oppose infant circumcision say its merely torture and sexual abuse of infant, causing trauma, altering his sexual functions related to foreskin, while health benefits are so low and can still be achieved if person wants to get circumcised as adult by choice as opposed to being forced upon a person.

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Pointless, harmful, painful, and severe injuries in cases of "circumcision gone wrong"

Health benefits of circumcision are virtually non-existent. Countries with more circumcision on average even have lower life expectancy than countries where circumcision is rare, studies claiming benefits of circumcision are basically all small scale studies which are selective and which show such small benefits, in just 1% of cases which is also lower than margin of error for small scale studies.


But circumcision carries many obvious harms, such as severe pain, trauma to infant, altering sexual function of a penis because foreskin plays a sexual function. But that is far from all. In cases of "circumcision gone wrong", people have even experienced complete loss of sexual function, permanent damage to penis, and in some cases even death. Over 100 newborns die every year in USA as a consequence of circumcision, and additional 600 each year experience severe complications which require surgery to save their life, sometimes even a complete loss of penis.

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Essentially ritual sexual abuse of children.

There is no health benefit in circumcising pre-pubescent young boys. Only later in life might such a procedure be beneficial to well being. Ritual circumcision is just another example of religiously inspired human stupidity...I bet that God's dick wasn't messed around with by pious perverts.

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Yeah, people who support infant circumcision are perverts and torture abusers of infant's penis. Even Hitler opposed circumcision, and if Hitler won WW2, circumcision would be banned now world wide.

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