No but it is cruel as fuck and rooted in religious bigotry
What? Who are these people that were even linking these two things? I’m actually shocked I can still be surprised by stupidity.
They should still stop doing it though.
Eh. I like not cleaning smegma out of my uncircumcised dick. I’m totally fine with being circumcised without my permission and with no memory of the pain of the procedure and I’m glad I didn’t have to make that decision as an adult.
They also vaccinated me without my persmission. I’m ok with that too. My parents also forced me to get braces when I didn’t want to. Glad about that too.
Downvote. I really don’t care. I’m kinda just tired of this conversation.
I’m kinda just tired of this conversation
Is that why you came in here and wrote two paragraphs only just barely tangentially related to the article?
No but it is cruel and a gross violation of bodily autonomy that should have huge amounts of jail time attached.
Thank goodness my parents said they would rather have left that choice to me when I was old enough. As an adult, why the fuck would I get circumsized unless you have a specific reason to do it?
I’m jealous that your parents cared enough to let you decide. I wish mine had done the same.
As for why you would do it willingly I don’t know either.
I got the last laugh. I was cut as a newborn, but I still didn’t end up with the parts my parents wanted. They took a little snip. I went for the full origami of gender reassignment surgery. 🤣
Take it one step further, and invent an entirely new set of genitals just to piss them off!
I went for the pretty standard fem package. But there are folks doing some pretty wild things out there now.
Really? I’m a cis dude and I haven’t heard of any of that from my trans friends, I’m genuinely curious. I couldn’t imagine what other designs people would go for. Do you like draw it up in CAD before hand or something?
they could have a “design your own genitals” kiosk like the “design your own building” ones at lumber yards.
I’m a binary trans woman myself. I just wanted the full standard package.
But there are varieties, mainly spearheaded by the nonbinary community. There’s zero depth vaginoplasty, where they make a labia but no vaginal canal. (Easier maintenance, ideal for lesbians with no interest in penetration.) For asexual folks or those with no interest in sex, there’s nullification surgery, aka the “Ken doll” method. And for the most exotic, the term you’re looking for is “Salmacian.”
Here’s a subreddit. Obviously NSFW:
I want mine to have pincers!
I’ve heard that a lot. I’ve even had someone approach me after taking a public shower before and try to strike up a conversation about my bits. Sorry about your bits, brother.
It is what it is, I’ve come to accept it but I will never not be mad about it.
Thank you for the condolences.
OK but it is still a barbaric practice and I don’t see why we allow it. Just because it is culturally accepted does not make it OK.
I like my circumcised dick. Y’all can downvote me if you want.
Nothing wrong with liking circumcised dicks, but I think we can all agree that chopping off part of a child’s genitals for any reason beyond a medical necessity without any input from the child is inherently wrong.
I like your circumcised dick too!
I like any kind of dick, but I still don’t approve of pointless cosmetic surgery on infants. If he wants to be circumcised, let him grow up and decide for himself.
So, I actually have a friend who had not been who ended up having to have it done at 30 years old for medical reasons. Apparently the experience was pretty hellish.
I can imagine. The only reason people think it’s okay to do to infants is that they cannot complain about it at the time.
I don’t defend it being done without need, but I’m still not mad at my parents over mine. It has still served me well for many years and has never received a complaint.
Genuinely curious how the quality of sex diminishes, i’ve heard you lose a lot of sensitivity from it which is a bummer
I’ve heard that the foreskin acts as “lube” so I’ve always wondered how that would be. Teenager me had some long weekends where things got pretty chafed down there.
Don’t know, but I really can’t imagine sex being any more intense. I’m more than content with the me I have to work with and I believe the quality of my sex life is better than average.
A fish cannot experience water.
“Sorry. We don’t read studies anymore. We’ve found the emotional inner knowledge of hunches and gut feelings appears to get us more money.” America under trump.
Who… how could… what?
… ah.
“Parents have been concerned about this potential circumcision-autism connection, but hopefully these findings may help allay their fears,” says senior author Monica McGrath, research professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Epidemiology…
Ah ok I understand now.
“Parents”.
Bigotry against autists is so extreme that idiot religious extremists will actually consider one of their more barbaric, senseless, cherished traditions as negotiable, relative to the utter ‘horror’ of their children potentially being autistic.
Right?‽ the logic of this is just so messed up on both ends
One way or another, they just can’t help but to cut you down and fit you into one of their simple little boxes they understand.
Stop cutting bits off children, you complete wrong uns.
Who else is fine with pretending it does if that results in fewer circumcisions?
I’m on board with that.
Nah, there are plenty enough confirmed reasons why this is bad.
But if you know one thing about conservatives, it is that they’ll whitewash everything they want. They won’t stop even if you say it causes autism, depression, or sudden death.
You’re against circumcision because you believe it causes autism.
I’m against circumcision because I believe genitally mutilating non-consenting infants is an atrocity.
We are not the same.
Well, better than not being against it…
Yeah, honestly if this is a psyop to return a little bit of humanity to the world then I’m alright with it
“Voting gives you autism!”
…did people think it did?
It’s such a weird thing to do a study on in 2026 given how many thousands of years of data we already have. Like if it made any difference at all it definitely would have been spotted by at least Roman times.
Tell the religious people that circumcision causes trans women. At least that one could make sense to someone who’s afraid of trans people.
Aren’t there literally people who were biologically male but raised as a girl due to botched circumcisions?
Seems unlikely, it would have to be a really botched tip snip to get the balls.
There’s a famous one. He transitioned as an adult and later died by suicide.
I think so. There are also some intersex people who were “modified” as a baby to be female, but heaven forbid waiting for the child to at least be cognizant.
can we still like, stop doing it though ?
No, sorry; tradition.
BuT tHe CeReAl MaN sAiD wE sHoUlD!!!1!
SKY CAKE
It’s not mandatory, so… yes!
