This is just weird. It might as well be your appendix. I didn't have a say when they removed that at 13 or when I had hernia surgery at 5.
If you asked me on any day of my life if this caused me angst, I would say no. If you asked me if I would change things, I would say hell no.
Our country is now fascist. I think arguing about foreskin is a weird distraction from the historic destruction of our country.
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And did your appendix make sex better and cause no harm to you at all?
Also people with functioning brains are able to handle multiple conversation topics lmao
Funny how a Jewish tradition somehow managed to completely dominate popular media and medical opinion in the way it did. Hmmmmmm
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I agree that arguing about foreskin is ridiculous. Maybe not a distraction from the degradation of our country, but more a piece in the puzzle of people waking up to first principles thinking and ownership of oneās own streams of research supported by data. Imo, itās not something I want to proliferate, but itās not the most important issue of our time.
Do I circumcise my children? No, because itās not necessary for them.
Do I sit around sad that Iām circumcised because Iām āmissing out on somethingā unquantifiable? No -thatās nonsense. Iāve never had any complaints about my hardware, intimacy with my wife, or the kids that were born from that intimacy.
Will I allow people to remove organs, limbs, or whatever is needed from my kids in order to preserve their life? Yes, obviously. I think people throw the word āmutilationā around too easily in this. Itās more about educating on the necessity of it, not damming people into changing. No one yells at a parent because they got their daughterās ears pierced. Thatās ridiculous.
I would have questions, depending about the age, concerning what values they are instilling into their child by getting their ears pierced very young, but you are right that I would stop short of calling it mutilation.
Then again, ear piercings can heal over, while foreskin, once removed, cannot grow back.
