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2026-04-13 17:15 UTC
> So, if you’ve every had to clean out the inside of your son’s penis, you might feel a little bit differently. Circumcision was considered a standard hygienic practice for decades. There are some marginal benefits to health and safety, particularly wrt transmission of STDs. But given the modernizations in health and safety (particularly condoms and milder skin-friendly soap) it definitely feels archaic.
It feels archaic because this _is_ archaic bullshit. it takes about a second to pull back the foreskin and wash it with the rest of the penis/pubic area during a normal bath the bathing a baby/toddler, and teaching a child this very normal habit is very simple and easy. *The vast majority of human males on Earth* handle this very normal task, and have done so for the entire existence of humanity.
Just because the misinformation you just repeated was pushed by the American medical establishment for a few decades doesn't make it fact, and it has been widely repudiated by the medical establishments everywhere else, and even here in the US in recent decades.
It is no longer widely recommended, even in the US.
And your personal preference isn't really _medically_ relevant.
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> The vast majority of human males on Earth handle this very normal task, and have done so for the entire existence of humanity.
Go ask around the medical community and you'll discover quite a few didn't handle it well. Kids don't do a good job of washing. That area is easily infected, even setting aside STDs. The procedure was created precisely in response to these perfectly normal human conditions, along with a litany of other - now largely archaic - practices for avoiding illness and infection.
> It is no longer widely recommended, even in the US.
Even that fact varies state-by-state. It is no longer *automatically covered by health insurance*, which has resulted in a large drop-off in the practice domestically. But then that's been the US standard for medicine going on 50 years.
> And your personal preference isn’t really medically relevant.
It's highly relevant, since parents are the ultimate arbiters of their childrens' health and well-being.
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