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"misogyny kills, misandry just hurts your feelings." Wrong. Conscription. Sentencing disparities. Homelessness. Suicide. Arguing with rubes as if they were your intellectual equals is ALWAYS a mistake.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/06/26 05:15 PM
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I'm from the future. Break up with her and find someone else. You're welcome. PS: Switch the genders and ask this question.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/06/26 01:00 AM
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People uneducated in formal logic will be useful idiots for the trillionaire class.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/06/26 12:16 AM
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So collective responsibility is a thing or nah
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/06/26 10:21 PM
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This site (not this subreddit specifically; it's one of the best on the site) is populated with very dysfunctional people, and they reenforce each other's dysfunction.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/06/26 02:10 PM
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These so-called "leftists" are crybullies who want to micromanage and control every thought anyone has and every word anyone says.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 01:27 PM
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Every young man needs someone who believes in him before he can believe in himself. Respectfully disagree, some young men can believe in themselves even if everybody else thinks they're trash. That's a great ability to have .
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/06/26 01:27 PM
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if they were done in the clinical settings that MGM is done Like what's happening in Indonesian clinics literally right this minute.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/06/26 01:24 PM
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School is mostly bullshit. It's REALLY IMPORTANT your kid flush 13 years down the toilet to learn useless trivia because...because it just is, OK!!! The older I get, the more bullshit school looks. Feels designed to prevent learning about life.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/06/26 03:03 AM
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2:40 Great, Ana is perpetuating the narrative that women don't care about sex or like sex. How very red-pill of her I don't think that's part of the red pill narrative, the narrative is more like "women care about sex A LOT".
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/04/26 01:51 PM
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It's very obvious. And they've won.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/04/26 03:11 PM
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This article is horribly translated. Japan has little to no tradition of circumcision. What they refer to as "circumcised" in this article is actually the ability to retract the foreskin to expose the glans. I know Japanese people. They are usually shy to discuss topics like this, but many don't even know what circumcision is at all. There is no shame in Japan over not being circumcised; about 90% of Japanese guys aren't. The stigma is in phimosis, and phimosis is poorly understood everywhere, n…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/26 04:15 PM
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Her problem is isn't that her cognitive dissonance is too entrenched. Her problem is she doesn't seem to have enough cognitive dissonance to make her admit she's wrong. Cognitive dissonance does not mean "believing two contradictory things" or "having double standards". Cognitive dissonance is an emotion. Specifically, the unpleasant emotion you feel when you realize you logically must be wrong about something because you realized that your beliefs are contradictory.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/11/25 02:06 PM
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like the online left, and society more broadly, has dissolved into one big cesspit of fashionably hating on men disguised as intelligent analysis of gender issues. Notice how this happened right after OWS...
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/11/25 02:50 AM
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Cognitive dissonance is not hypocrisy. We need more cognitive dissonance in this world, not less. Cognitive dissonance motivates people to stop being hypocrites. It's the bad feeling you get when you realize you're a hypocrite. About 99% of people on this site who say "cognitive dissonance" don't know what it means. It's a distinct concept from hypocrisy and feeling cognitive dissonance is often an early step to having a less hypocritical worldview.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/11/25 10:50 PM
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5:35: This is just something straight out of cringey feminist teen drama. Abusers installing spyware to spy on their wives. Really Ana? I mean what on earth would be hard to believe about that? It's not even out there.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/11/25 01:13 PM
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You need to do more research on this topic. Here is a good place to start. You'll see that MGM and FGM have more parallels than you have seen thus far.
/r/MensRights01/08/25 06:10 AM
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your feelings don't determine them- they just affect them What is the distinction between "affect" and "determine" in this particular case? I am thinking about a piece of iron outside. The moisture in the air affects it by making it rust. The nature of the relationship between iron and moisture determined it would rust. They are extremely closely related concepts. You could say "the iron's lack of a moisture repellant also was part of what determined it would rust", sure. At best, "affect" seems…
/r/MensRights26/04/25 06:08 AM
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Conditioning (such as having conversations, hearing new ideas etc) absolutely can change the way people feel and think. Conditioning shapes your perception of reality.
/r/MensRights14/04/25 12:57 AM
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If you can't choose your feelings, but can choose how you act on them, the choice of how to act on them is either based on feelings you can't control or no feelings at all. Those are the only two possible scenarios and both kind of suck. Think about it.
/r/MensRights14/04/25 12:55 AM
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To be frank, I feel uncomfortable when I see men cry. It makes me think they’re unstable, weak, and less of a man. Try turning that around. What are some things you do, or could do, that would make you think yourself unstable, weak, or less of a woman? It's something to think about that could help you come to new conclusions and even feel differently. I would suggest looking into philosophy as a concept. Learning how to use ultra-basic basic formal logic (As in, A is B, B is C, so A is C) and th…
/r/MensRights14/04/25 12:53 AM
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The prepuce--which includes the frenulum, frenular delta, ridged band, smooth mucosa, dartos musculature, and more--is excised from billions of males. These tissues comprise the primary sensory structures of male genitalia. The idea that the "head" of the penis is its primary sensory structure is a cultural belief with absolutely no basis in science whatsoever. In terms of sensory loss, the loss of all sensation in the glans penis would be objectively a lesser loss than the loss of all sensation…
/r/MensRights11/11/24 01:56 AM
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In my experience most people don't really grasp the concept of reasonable doubt. They don't get how the idea works.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/09/24 11:00 PM
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The situation is complicated by the fact that the junctional mucosa of the foreskin is the primary sensory structure of the penis (a common belief is that the head of the penis is its primary sensory structure, but this is false and based on absolutely no science whatsoever). So if you go for the circumcision to repair the chordee, the amount of sensory tissue loss could end up being really extreme. I would consider contacting the organization Doctors Opposing Circumcision and asking them for mo…
/r/MensRights14/07/24 01:35 AM
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As in, toxic masculinity is the “expectations a person has of what it means to be male, or a “real man”, that is toxic Then it’s a terribly constructed phrase. Let’s say someone has messed up expectations of Canadian people. using the corresponding term would be to call that “toxic Canadian-ness”. But the implication is that the Canadian himself is toxic.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/05/24 12:46 AM
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Apples can be green, and this is uncontroversial. Hair can be blonde—again, uncontroversially. But the idea that masculinity can be toxic is controversial. That is why your analogies may not work. Someone could argue that toxic things cannot be masculine, rendering masculinity and toxicity as concepts thst do not overlap.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/05/24 12:42 AM
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It’s a protective layer if skin over the glans. That's selling it short. It does do that, but the foreskin also includes structures that are more specialized in terms of sensory innervation than the glans itself. The neurological evidence to back up this claim is based on objective science. Cold & Taylor, 1999, British Journal of Urology
/r/MensRights14/04/24 01:57 PM
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I would probably get him circumcised just so he's not "different" Do some research on the ridged band and the frenulum. It's not just some skin that gets cut off. Circumcision causes irreversible nerve damage in 100% of cases. It's literally an inherent part of the operation to damage the penile nerves irreversibly; the rate of nerve damage is 100%. Circumcision involves removing part of the nervous system. No, of course the penis is not normally completely destroyed. But what a low bar to set t…
/r/MensRights14/04/24 01:55 PM
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Astroturfing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/09/23 08:33 PM
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A founder population with too few fathers would lead to inbreeding depression.
/r/MensRights11/07/23 10:21 PM
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Fallacy of relative privation.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/06/23 11:27 PM
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Brian Morris is not a credible source on this. Do some research on the guy.
/r/MensRights29/05/23 01:28 PM
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There are women who themselves enforce so-called "toxic masculinity", including on their own sons. A lot of the time they don't even realize they're doing it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 03:57 PM
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Are people responsible for actions of other people in their demographic, or not? Why are men the only group that it's supposedly okay to hold responsible for the actions of a minority of the group they belong to? What other group can you do that with and have it be okay? It's special pleading, hypocrisy, and a double standard. One standard for every other demographic (each person is responsible only for their own actions), a different standard for the "men" demographic (all men are collectively …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/23 03:54 PM
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Sounds like there's more than a bit of philosopher in your heart. The dissonance and inconsistency that less philosophical people live their lives by really doesn't bother them because they don't notice or care about blowing hot and cold with the same breath. But for people of a certain nature, inconsistency itself is bothersome. When that inconsistency relates to them being treated poorly, the inconsistency adds a whole extra layer of shittiness to the situation. Am I on the mark?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/04/23 08:05 PM
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First, it would help to have an accurate conception of what the male prepuce (tissue excised in circumcision) actually is. A common misconception is that it is "just extra skin", which simply is not true. It is functional, protective, sensual, intriciate, vascular, richly-innervated, mobile, extensive, erotogenic tissue that includes the most sensitive parts of the penis. Although there is variation with regard to the amount of tissue removed from one circumcision to the next (certain specialize…
/r/MensRights05/09/22 08:41 PM
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The "underside of the shaft" is going to include preputial tissue. As you know, the foreskin is a movable structure that is very fundamentally integrated into the unit as a whole; it isn't just some nebulous, disassociated "extra" hanging off the end. Even many circumcised men will have the underside of their shaft still hold some damaged remnants of the foreskin.
/r/MensRights05/09/22 08:23 PM
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Yes, that's what I was referring to. There is an organization in Italy called Foregen that is working on it. Their research is still in early stages at this point.
/r/MensRights23/07/22 04:47 AM
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Regrettably there is a near-total lack of evidence that humans have the capacity to regenerate neurons in the peripheral nervous system. Maybe someday in the future this will change with new medical technologies.
/r/MensRights23/07/22 04:42 AM
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In cultures that practice FGM in its various forms, women who speak out against it are also gaslit in a very similar way. Khatna has been given a bad name, say Bohra women from around the world. ... When The Hindu spoke to well-educated and well-placed Bohra women from across the world, who had gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the inauguration of an Arabic academy by their religious leader Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, each one echoed the same sentiment. ... “It is a religious practice for us. But t…
/r/MensRights23/07/22 04:35 AM
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Canada and Mexico, but not nearly as commonly. South Korea, but mainly on older boys, and it's becoming less common now. All in large part due to US American influence.
/r/MensRights17/07/22 01:15 PM
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What are some things we as a society can do for men? The mischaracterization of genital structures such as the ridged band and frenular delta as "extra skin" causes parents to consent to have their infant sons circumcised when they don't even know what they are agreeing to have removed from their sons' bodies. The idea that male sexual anatomy can legitimately be surgically altered by force, despite a lack of medical indication, because "boys are dirty and won't wash" and other such nonsensical …
/r/MensRights09/07/22 07:23 AM
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In that moronic blog entry from 2011, he was all about "choosing the path of least resistance" and encouraged men to shut up about the issues they face, because trying to address those problems is for "pussies". Real Men™ need to patronize women and treat them like they're irrational idiots, while keeping quiet and bottling up their own feelings. It's so manly! Give me a break. Seems like this is what he's really suggesting here, too. "If your son is messed up, give up on him, there is nothing y…
/r/MensRights08/07/22 02:44 AM
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zero credible support services for addicted male teens. How about finding out what the cause of the addiction is? Addictions are very frequently the result of failed attempts to self-medicate mental and physical health problems, or the result of attempts to escape past traumas and anxieties. Adams himself basically wants men to shut up about their problems. I can't imagine him being very supportive of a son. Most substance abusers eventually get through their problem too. The U.S. faces an unpre…
/r/MensRights08/07/22 02:06 AM
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I liked the Dilbert animated series back in the day (the comic strip not so much). It provided a few laughs. I don't think I could enjoy it again. I can often separate the art from the artist if I really like a work of fiction, but I mean, it's Dilbert. I'll survive without it.
/r/MensRights08/07/22 01:38 AM
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So he suggested that men treat women like mentally handicapped children, and now he's all but encouraging parents to murder their own sons? Forget regressive...This guy is right out of the Bronze Age.
/r/MensRights08/07/22 01:35 AM
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His stepson is dead and he is comforting himself with the thought that nothing could possibly have been done, even theoretically, and maybe it's actually a good thing it happened. It's a coping mechanism, and he's willing to throw thousands and thousands of young men who absolutely could be helped under the bus to maintain his comfort fantasy. Ironically the fact is that he himself is the one looking like someone with a disregard for others' lives here. PS: The overwhelming majority of "troubled…
/r/MensRights08/07/22 01:14 AM
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Men in general seem disinclined to stand up for themselves as a class. My impression is they do not, for the most part, have a sense of fraternal good will towards other men. Again, that is my impression...but I do recall there exists some research suggesting something at least somewhat along those lines, though the citation escapes me.
/r/MensRights07/07/22 06:16 AM
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There is no convincing evidence that circumcision is useful or necessary in terms of prevention or hygiene. ... The [Royal Dutch Medical Association] calls on (referring) doctors to explicitly inform parents/carers who are considering nontherapeutic circumcision for male minors of the risk of complications and the lack of convincing medical benefits. The fact that this is a medically non-essential intervention with a real risk of complications makes the quality of this advice particularly import…
/r/MensRights07/07/22 05:27 AM
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A lot of people haven't the faintest idea how the foreskin works. Even a lot of American doctors, many of whom were circumcised themselves as infants, have no idea. They learn very little about the foreskin in medical school, and that isn't my opinion--American doctors themselves have said that. "As a medical student, we don’t learn anything about foreskins. In my anatomy textbook, there are two lines about the foreskin: ‘It’s the skin that folds back upon itself and reattaches around the glans …
/r/MensRights07/07/22 05:09 AM
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To a large extent it can depend on just how much tissue was removed. Circumcision is not a well-standardized procedure; there are many different "circumcision styles" that can remove different kinds of tissue and different amounts of tissue from the penis, although some structures such as the ridged band (the sensitive, rugose tissue right at the tip of the foreskin) are virtually always ablated. Circumcision was popularized in the U.S. with the express aim of attenuating male sexuality at a tim…
/r/MensRights07/07/22 05:01 AM
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However, after the circumcision, the participants had more erection confidence (p < 0.001), more difficulty in maintaining erections in completing intercourse... So they were more confident about their erections, yet had more difficulty in maintaining them to a sufficient extent to complete intercourse? That's...odd.
/r/MensRights06/07/22 06:42 PM
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As you mentioned yourself in another post, you have obsessive compulsive disorder (this was honestly already pretty clear from this above comment alone). I am sure this has presented many serious challenges for you, but these issues do not mean you need to be here advocating for parents to cut parts of their sons' genitals off. self conscious even when girls would tell me I tasted good or smelled good Because the problem was in your head. I hate to use that phrase but it's clear that was the iss…
/r/MensRights06/07/22 06:15 AM
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Cutting off the foreskin takes away its protective, mechanical, and sensory functions. The foreskin is a complex structure with multiple parts that function together with the rest of the penis.25 The foreskin is not simply skin, but is a specialized junctional tissue with five distinct layers, which, like the lips and eyelids, has a moist mucous membrane on the inside and dry epithelium on the outside.26 It is replete with nerves, blood vessels, and muscle fibers,27 with a total adult surface ar…
/r/MensRights06/07/22 12:11 AM
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Sensation is lost in all the parts of the penis that get removed, such as the frenulum, the frenular delta, and the ridged band.
/r/MensRights05/07/22 10:54 PM
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Routine infant circumcision: Removes healthy, mobile, innervated tissue, impairing the full functionality of the penis, both in terms of biomechanics and erogenous sensory capacity. Is not indicated on prophylactic or cleanliness grounds; good penile health and hygiene do not mean circumcision. Can cause further complications, sometimes devastatingly severe. All this, for an unnecessary surgery that the patient does not consent to. Taking all of that into account, it is clear that RIC does not m…
/r/MensRights05/07/22 10:40 AM
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He didn't die. The child, now five years old, lives with motor impairment, irreversible brain damage, impaired vision and speech, and developmental delay. He "will continue to suffer the effects of his disabilities for the balance of his lifetime," the suit says.
/r/MensRights05/07/22 07:17 AM
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The idea of circumcision as a cancer preventive is just a bogus post hoc rationalization. It's estimated that it may take over 320,000 circumcisions to prevent one case of cancer in one person, almost certainly when they are old. Penis cancer is one of the rarest forms of cancer. A man's odds of getting cancer someday are around 50:50. The odds that cancer will be penis cancer are astronomical in comparison. You'd prevent more cancer by prophylactically removing male breast buds. But the pro-cir…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/07/22 06:23 PM
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That's insane.
/r/MensRights29/06/22 07:07 PM
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Granted there are some unconstructive posts other people have made, but I'm just going over the fact that circumcision in America is not propagated just by men or women but both of them, and it actually can cause a lot of problems.
/r/MensRights29/06/22 09:33 AM
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A lot of men and women support circumcision because they honestly do not understand the value of the body parts that are actually being removed, and have many misconceptions about the issue on a lot of levels. In American popular culture, like in movies or TV shows, the foreskin is often depicted as an illegitimate or "bad" body part that is unappealing to women. In fact, the idea their son will be more appealing to women if he is circumcised is a common reason American parents--both mothers and…
/r/MensRights29/06/22 09:18 AM
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I guess you didnt read my other reply where i said it is cultural and religious. Not made by women...!!!! If a woman chooses to have her son circumcised, she is continuing to transmit this negative aspect of American culture. Same as if she were a man. The fact that circumcision was not started by women in the U.S. doesn't change the fact that a large number of them are propagating it. I am not saying only women are to blame here, but there are many American women who do support circumcision, at…
/r/MensRights29/06/22 09:15 AM
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Circumcision is bad yes. But does that change the course of your life???? It can, yes. [A] large number of complications resulting from circumcision are described: infections, bleeding, sepsis, necrosis, fibrosis of the skin, urinary tract infections, meningitis, herpes infections, meatisis, meatal stenosis, necrosis and necrotising complications, all of which have led to the complete amputation of the penis.17 Deaths have also been reported.18 Royal Dutch Medical Association, 2010 (PDF) The for…
/r/MensRights29/06/22 09:07 AM
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I imagine it became popular here because a large portion of early American settlers were Christian. Circumcision isn't a Christian religious practice. None or virtually none of the early settlers of the U.S. were circumcised or would have even thought of considering circumcision a part of their religion. In an American context, it started in the late 19th century to control male sexuality by damaging the penis. Prior to that point virtually no non-Jewish Americans would have been cut.
/r/MensRights29/06/22 08:54 AM
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[T]he two have a number of similarities...There are good reasons for a legal prohibition of non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors, as exists for female genital mutilation. Royal Dutch Medical Association, 2010 (PDF) The practice started in America due to mistaken beliefs the medical establishment had about sexuality. During the 19th and early to mid 20th centuries, masturbation and "excessive" sexual pleasure were mistakenly seen by the American medical establishment as health hazards, so …
/r/MensRights29/06/22 08:52 AM
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If they were cutting babies' ears off, would you have to be "obsessed with baby ears" if you spoke out against it? We didn't pick the body part to be amputated.
/r/MensRights28/06/22 06:04 AM
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They were noting that even if a person subjected to forced genital cutting can still have an orgasm, that doesn't make what was done to them okay, regardless of their sex. That was their point; u/omegaphallic was not defending FGM; their comment was in reference to another post. It's contextual.
/r/MensRights28/06/22 06:01 AM
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What you're referring to is the fallacy of relative privation.
/r/MensRights28/06/22 05:58 AM
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From your own link “Only daft idiots would think a penis missing part of itself is actually better. I had sex with a circumcised man, and it was the worst sex of my life. It hurt, his penis was rough, and circumcision scars are extremely ugly. My husband is uncircumcised and I love his penis exactly the way it is. It feels 100x better than the circumcised penis, and he is so much more sensitive to the touch. I love it.” That's valid, then, by your own admission. Oops.
/r/MensRights28/06/22 12:54 AM
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The majority of men in the world are intact, and don't have a lot of trouble keeping themselves clean. Do you struggle to brush your teeth?
/r/MensRights28/06/22 12:52 AM
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Why?
/r/MensRights28/06/22 12:49 AM
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She even tried to make the argument that because men can still orgasm, it's perfectly ok to perform. Hm. “I have experienced orgasm. Women who think they have a problematic sex life because of the circumcision should go see a doctor instead of blaming the practice. I have only sweet memories attached to the day when I was taken for the procedure. My mother and I bonded, the same way my daughter and I did when she was circumcised,” she said, questioning the veracity of the few women who are “poin…
/r/MensRights28/06/22 12:47 AM
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There is no convincing evidence that circumcision is useful or necessary in terms of prevention or hygiene. Royal Dutch Medical Association, 2010 (PDF) Basic genital hygiene isn't difficult.
/r/MensRights28/06/22 12:44 AM
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You said it. Things are really messed up and it just blows my mind more people haven't noticed or won't say anything about it. Unfortunately I really struggle to see it getting better anytime soon. The philosopher Immanuel Kant talked about the cruelty and immorality of treating other people only as tools for the sake of profit all the way back in the 1700's, but that is how people are treated by the billions all over this earth. No, I don't think Kant was right about everything, but he was righ…
/r/MensRights12/06/22 09:14 PM
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It's a small piece of skin. That claim is objectively, anatomically wrong. The foreskin is a complex structure with multiple parts that function together with the rest of the penis.25 The foreskin is not simply skin, but is a specialized junctional tissue with five distinct layers, which, like the lips and eyelids, has a moist mucous membrane on the inside and dry epithelium on the outside.26 It is replete with nerves, blood vessels, and muscle fibers,27 with a total adult surface area of approx…
/r/MensRights12/06/22 07:33 PM
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On the eighth day after birth, the body is flooded with Vitamin K This claim is just a myth that people keep repeating. When was the experiment that made this supposed discovery done, and what was the sample size and methodology of testing? What were the names of the researchers, and what journal was their work published in? When?
/r/MensRights12/06/22 07:31 PM
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In Britain the foreskin is accepted as a normal body part. In the U.S., over a century of pseudoscientific propaganda and quackery have caused it to become misconceptualized by a number of people as a somehow illegitimate "extra" rather than an actual part of human male anatomy.
/r/MensRights05/06/22 08:52 PM
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Also what the hell were the historical reasons for doing this? Among various other rationales, slave-marking and sexual repression. (Royal Dutch Medical Association, 2010) (PDF)
/r/MensRights17/05/22 11:11 PM
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There are all kinds of misunderstandings, myths, and just outright absurdities common in the U.S. regarding this topic. It's been culturally entrenched in the U.S. for like a century. It was initially popularized to damage and control sexuality because that used to be seen as a good thing in American culture. Much of the American medical establishment was really gung-ho about anything that could impede masturbation and/or create an association of sexuality with pain. The idea was that masturbati…
/r/MensRights10/05/22 01:58 AM
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There's a saying about circumcision: "The more you know, the more you're against it." Even considerations of hygiene are moot; the foreskin doesn't require more cleaning than most other body parts. There's this idea that it's like a Rubik's cube or some big chore to clean, but you just wash it in the shower; it's not harder than brushing teeth. In fact it's easier. There's a whole thing on that note, actually. I guess I'll get into explaining it a bit; on a baby or a young child, the foreskin is…
/r/MensRights06/05/22 06:42 PM
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It doesn't have all of them, but the majority. There are generally going to be some residual foreskin nerve endings left over after circumcision as well. Some men still have part of their foreskin left over, even after being circumcised. The frenulum for example sometimes still exists on a circumcised penis, whereas other times it is completely removed. Amazingly there is no real universally-applied standard for exactly how much to cut off. Some men find the scar of the circumcision is also an e…
/r/MensRights06/05/22 06:17 PM
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The foreskin itself has a more specialized and advanced innervation than the head of the penis does. It does protect the head of the penis but it includes the most sensitive parts of the penis in itself. The glans doesn't have the unique innervation the foreskin (which includes not only skin but specialized sensory structures such as the ridged band and frenulum) does.
/r/MensRights06/05/22 06:07 PM
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There's a lot you can do with the foreskin during sexual activity, and it includes specific erogenous zones (including the ridged band and the frenulum) that transmit unique sensations because of their specialized innervation. There's a growing body of evidence that it can also facilitate comfortable sexual activity for one's partner as well. It also helps protect the head of the penis. The penile foreskin is a natural and integral part of the normal male genitalia. The foreskin has a number of …
/r/MensRights06/05/22 06:06 PM
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There are other, less extreme treatment options for phimosis. Consider your options carefully because once the decision to get circumcised is realized, there is no going back. You might want to post on r/phimosis and talk to them.
/r/MensRights28/03/22 07:04 PM
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The penile foreskin is a natural and integral part of the normal male genitalia. The foreskin has a number of important protective and sexual functions. It protects the penile glans against trauma and contributes to the natural functioning of the penis during sexual activity. Ancient historic accounts and recent scientific evidence leave little doubt that during sexual activity the foreskin is a functional and highly sensitive, erogenous structure, capable of providing pleasure to its owner and …
/r/MensRights28/03/22 07:00 PM
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Please do. Share it with people; let his death not be in vain.
/r/MensRights27/03/22 01:24 PM
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Yes, it's called tuli. In the Philippines boys are ritually cut around that age--mistaken beliefs about the intact anatomy are rampant and this fuels the practice, which has now claimed another victim. A whole life, taken away just as it was beginning.
/r/MensRights27/03/22 01:23 PM
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In the U.S., some nurses and nursing assistants frequently complain that intact male patients under their long-term care in nursing homes are getting infections and should have been circumcised. The reason for this is that the disabled patients' genital hygiene is neglected because Americans are taught that foreskins are one of the worst things in the world and so the caregivers, who drank the Kool-Aid, don't want to touch them. So they just neglect the patients. Then these same people encourage…
/r/MensRights16/03/22 03:14 AM
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I have tried some research but most of them are just saying how they have medical benefits mostly or other articles saying that MGM is not comparable to FGM (and so I can't find much information on it). According to the Royal Dutch Medical Association (2010, PDF), [T]he two have a number of similarities...There are good reasons for a legal prohibition of non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors, as exists for female genital mutilation. As Earp & Steinfeld (2017) explain, Female forms of NGC f…
/r/MensRights16/03/22 02:55 AM
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Circumcision removes many erotogenic, specialized nerve endings from the penis. Once those nerve endings are gone you can't feel with them anymore, ergo, reduced sensory capacity. The foreskin is an intricately-formed, uniquely-innervated moving part of the penis. Even when the foreskin is retracted, its many nerve endings still send signals to the brain during sexual activity. It is not just a covering for the head of the penis, but a major component of the penis's erogenous tissue in its own r…
/r/MensRights16/03/22 02:54 AM
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Compassion is an entirely human concept Not the case.
/r/MensRights15/03/22 07:45 PM
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It's actually the ridged band. It is not rigid.
/r/MensRights03/03/22 01:19 AM
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Sexual harassment. Crystal clear.
/r/MensRights01/03/22 07:29 AM
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American Circumcision (NSFW) is a great documentary by the filmmaker Brendon Marotta. It's a good place to begin. It's a little over an hour and a half. Anatomy of the Penis: Penile and Foreskin Neurology (NSFW) --In this short presentation, the anatomist and pathology professor Ken McGrath discusses the importance of the prepuce and how it is a major sensory zone of the penis. The prepuce. (PDF, NSFW) This review from the British Journal of Urology discusses the anatomy and functions of the mal…
/r/MensRights28/02/22 08:34 PM
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Are you well-versed on intactivism? If not I have some great resources I could share with you.
/r/MensRights28/02/22 07:31 PM
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[T]he two have a number of similarities...There are good reasons for a legal prohibition of non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors, as exists for female genital mutilation. Royal Dutch Medical Association (PDF)
/r/MensRights28/02/22 05:46 AM
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FGM happens at a much later stage Definitely an overgeneralization at the very least. Taken by surprise in early January 2015, James Asega, a 39-year-old, twice married father of 11 was forcibly circumcised by his Bukusu peers after his wife, Asha Nalongo, revealed to her neighbours that he was uncircumcised. She told reporters she wanted him cut, an action she took ‘to improve’ their marriage. According to the televised report, she had offered him money to pay for a safe VMMC at a local clinic,…
/r/MensRights22/02/22 08:15 AM
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Female forms of NGC fall on a wide spectrum across societies (Shell-Duncan & Hernlund, 2000). Although the most severe forms, such as infibulation (narrowing of the vaginal opening) combined with partial or complete excision of the external clitoris or clitoral glans,[vii] are often emphasized in Western media accounts (Njambi, 2004; Shweder, 2000; Wade, 2009), such forms are statistically exceptional, occurring in about 10% of cases according to available estimates (Abdulcadir et al., 2012). Su…
/r/MensRights22/02/22 07:25 AM
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False beliefs predict increased circumcision satisfaction in a sample of US American men
/r/MensRights20/02/22 03:59 AM
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So you understand that your characterization of FGM as being synonymous with the ablation of the glans clitoridis was wrong. Good, we are making progress here.
/r/MensRights20/02/22 03:45 AM
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Are women who have undergone FGM type 1A (ablation of the clitoral hood) minimizing other forms of FGM by counting themselves as FGM survivors? Why or why not?
/r/MensRights20/02/22 03:43 AM
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FGM doesn't necessarily entail the removal of the clitoral glans, the entire vulva, or even any tissue at all. Pricking the clitoral hood with a sterilized needle is FGM type 4 and still banned in the U.S. and many other developed countries. Ablation of the clitoral hood is FGM type 1A, and again, illegal.
/r/MensRights20/02/22 02:59 AM
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All kinds of absurd rationalizations have been made for the practice. It initially was popularized in the U.S. as a punishment for and supposed deterrent against masturbation because it was believed by many American doctors that masturbation and sexual pleasure caused diseases, so by damaging the penis health benefits could be gained. It was at times recommended to perform the procedure with no analgesia to make it a more effective punishment. Doctors also supported making sure to remove enough …
/r/MensRights20/02/22 02:54 AM
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If you aren't willing to actually take the time to try to understand what people who disagree with you say, and why their position is what it is, then you aren't prepared to engage in an honest discussion where you could learn something. It just makes you look willfully ignorant.
/r/MensRights20/02/22 02:36 AM
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There actually are women like Fuambai Ahmadu who got mutilated as adults and say they're happy with it. She's trying to spread the legalization of FGM across the globe now.
/r/MensRights20/02/22 01:53 AM
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Circumcision is the removal of part of the penis, including primary erogenous tissues such as the ridged band and frenular delta, as well as the majority of the penile dartos muscle.
/r/MensRights20/02/22 01:45 AM
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You wrote "[Y]ou cannot compare removing the foreskin with actually mutilating the external female genitalia". The ablation of the male prepuce is the mutilation of external male genitalia. The prepuce is legitimate genital tissue; it's the primary sensory platform of the penis. FGM includes any and all non-consensual, non-therapeutic surgical procedures performed on the female genitalia. Regardless of the extent of tissue damage, and even in the cases where tissue damage does not occur, it is a…
/r/MensRights20/02/22 01:15 AM
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Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it". You don't understand the issues here and are trying to paint those who disagree as ignorant, when you won't even take the time to read a few paragraphs to understand why you're off base. It's a complex and nuanced issue. You're posting false and misleading information because you don't understand the reality of the situat…
/r/MensRights20/02/22 12:50 AM
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People generally don't know a lot about this topic and a lot of false information has been disseminated to and among the public for years. That's going to take effort and time to address. As it stands today, many people miscategorize the male prepuce as "just a flap of extra skin". They don't know about the ridged band, the mechanical functions of the prepuce, none of it. You have to spend a lot of time learning all you can so you can share this information effectively to change minds.
/r/MensRights19/02/22 11:24 PM
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Seemingly he doesn't understand the anatomy and functions of the male prepuce and has misconceptualized it as somehow not counting as genital tissue. The reality is that the prepuce includes the most sensitive parts of the penis.
/r/MensRights19/02/22 11:13 PM
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Female forms of NGC fall on a wide spectrum across societies (Shell-Duncan & Hernlund, 2000). Although the most severe forms, such as infibulation (narrowing of the vaginal opening) combined with partial or complete excision of the external clitoris or clitoral glans,[vii] are often emphasized in Western media accounts (Njambi, 2004; Shweder, 2000; Wade, 2009), such forms are statistically exceptional, occurring in about 10% of cases according to available estimates (Abdulcadir et al., 2012). Su…
/r/MensRights19/02/22 10:52 PM
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Ablation of the prepuce irreversibly destroys the primary sensory structures of the penis (NSFW), has thousands of years of recorded history explicitly stating that controlling male sexuality by physically damaging the penis is among its primary purposes, can cause problems outside the realm of sexuality per se such as chronic pain, and countless boys, mainly in so-called third world countries but also in so-called developed nations, are maimed (more than intended) or even killed by this practic…
/r/MensRights19/02/22 10:45 PM
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Ablation of the prepuce irreversibly destroys the primary sensory structures of the penis (NSFW), has thousands of years of recorded history explicitly stating that controlling male sexuality by physically damaging the penis is among its primary purposes, can cause problems outside the realm of sexuality per se such as chronic pain, and countless boys, mainly in so-called third world countries but also in so-called developed nations, are maimed (more than intended) or even killed by this practic…
/r/MensRights07/02/22 07:55 PM
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Female forms of NGC fall on a wide spectrum across societies (Shell-Duncan & Hernlund, 2000). Although the most severe forms, such as infibulation (narrowing of the vaginal opening) combined with partial or complete excision of the external clitoris or clitoral glans,[vii] are often emphasized in Western media accounts (Njambi, 2004; Shweder, 2000; Wade, 2009), such forms are statistically exceptional, occurring in about 10% of cases according to available estimates (Abdulcadir et al., 2012). Su…
/r/MensRights07/02/22 07:41 PM
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Facts are facts, man.
/r/MensRights01/02/22 09:13 PM
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Considering the facts that it meets the dictionary definition and has been referred to repeatedly in the medical literature as an amputation for at least 140-odd years...yes.
/r/MensRights01/02/22 07:32 PM
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I notice I'm being downvoted all of a sudden. If you think this fact is in any way contrary to men's human rights, boy howdy you have a lot to learn about the topic of genital mutilation. MGM and FGM are two sides of the same worthless counterfeit coin. Educate yourselves. I mean that.
/r/MensRights31/12/21 06:20 AM
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Well, they are saying that touch sensitivity of the glans has no role in sexual sensation. They also hold that to be true about the frenulum, frenular delta, penile skin, smooth preputial mucosa, and the ridged band. They say that male sexual pleasure can come from heat and/or vibration sensitivity, but never from touch. It's such an obvious falsehood but people who want MGM to be okay just skim the article, see that it agrees with what they want to be true, and spread it around.
/r/MensRights30/12/21 08:29 PM
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Tons of people have very little understanding of penile anatomy, including a lot of men. They have been misled to believe that the prepuce is "just some skin"--they don't understand the significance of the intricate anatomical structures that are getting destroyed.
/r/MensRights30/12/21 08:22 AM
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It happens to Women in lawless, poor rogue states in Africa. It happened recently in the U.S. Look up the Jumana Nagarwala case.
/r/MensRights30/12/21 08:21 AM
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Ablation of the prepuce irreversibly destroys the primary sensory structures of the penis (NSFW), has thousands of years of recorded history explicitly stating that controlling male sexuality by physically damaging the penis is among its primary purposes, can cause problems outside the realm of sexuality per se such as chronic pain, and countless boys, mainly in so-called third world countries but also in so-called developed nations, are maimed (more than intended) or even killed by this practic…
/r/MensRights30/12/21 08:18 AM
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Excerpt: A traditional rite practiced in South Africa has left 23 male teenagers dead following the Xhosa Ulwaluko ceremony, which consists of circumcision plus an initiation into manhood. The ancestral, yet lethal practice, is carried out in the South African province of Eastern Cape, where Premier Oscar Mabuyane has called for those responsible to be tried for murder. The victims suffered from dehydration or sepsis from circumcision at the start of the ceremony, which lasts between two and six…
/r/MensRights20/12/21 11:50 PM
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The foreskin is a complex structure that protects and moisturizes the head of the penis, and, being the most densely innervated and sensitive portion of the penis, is essential to providing the complete sexual response. Circumcision-the removal of this structure-is non-therapeutic, painful, irreversible surgery that also risks serious physical injury, psychological sequelae, and death. Men rarely volunteer for it, and increasingly circumcised men are expressing their resentment about it. Circumc…
/r/MensRights16/12/21 05:18 AM
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a simple I don’t want to right now is all it takes for me to stop my sexual advances to her but for her when I say no it’s like the same as saying fuck you Not good.
/r/MensRights07/12/21 11:24 PM
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Male circumcision involves the amputation of the foreskin. It fits the dictionary definition of an amputation, and has been referred to an amputation in the medical literature from over a century ago up to the present day, including by many authors with a pro circumcision perspective. The circumcision scar develops nerve damage consistent with other amputations as well. Even the AAP has referred to it as an amputation.
/r/MensRights20/10/21 10:17 AM
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You're very welcome.
/r/MensRights19/10/21 05:08 PM
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It's a synonym for conscription into the military. People who get drafted do not get to choose to join or not; it's mandated for them.
/r/MensRights19/10/21 04:40 PM
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Worth mentioning that none of it is "extra" skin. The prepuce is an integral part of the penis. Calling it "extra" implies it is superfluous. Much of the tissue is not truly skin, either, but mucosal/mucocutaneous tissue. That doesn't even begin to get into the specialized structures such as the ridged band and frenulum. As you are no doubt aware, it really is so much more than people often assume.
/r/MensRights18/09/21 07:59 AM
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The male prepuce is not a flap of skin (mildly NSFW). It makes sense to have the facts before forming a position on something.
/r/MensRights13/08/21 11:43 PM
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The foreskin is the primary sensory structure of the human penis. It isn't just a protective covering--it includes the most sensitive parts of the male genitalia. There is no "cut here" line on the human body, and the amount and specific parts of the penis that get removed can vary from one cut to the next. The most sensual parts of the foreskin are right at the tip, so they essentially always are destroyed, but in some cases a man can lose a lot more than that, as well. Circumcision causes nerv…
/r/MensRights15/07/21 03:49 AM
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RIP :(
/r/MensRights28/05/21 09:21 PM
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See this short presentation (NSFW) for a lot of information you may not have previously been aware of.
/r/MensRights27/04/21 12:07 AM
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Ironically, India is the country where the philosophical/spiritual tradition of ahimsa (a commitment to non-violence and peace) originates. Yet if you look at the society, it's absolutely rife with violence, much of which goes unreported and/or unaddressed. It's atrocious and very sad.
/r/MensRights08/04/21 04:34 AM
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Small correction--David Reimer was Canadian.
/r/MensRights08/04/21 04:31 AM
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No, and I can't imagine how you could draw that conclusion from anything I wrote.
/r/MensRights21/02/21 04:17 AM
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The idea of cutting off a boy's foreskin making sense for hypothetical "medical benefits" is a post-hoc rationalization that wouldn't even be taken seriously if we were talking about ablating a part of the body if it weren't already an established ritual. Dr. Andrew Freedman, who was part of the American Academy of Pediatrics's ad hoc task force on circumcision and helped draft their (by now long-expired) 2012 position statement which held that the "benefits" of circumcision outweighed the "risk…
/r/MensRights21/02/21 03:59 AM
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Biologically, the foreskin exists to literally “slurp” (rather shovel aside, or suction) out the semen from another male deposited into his mate as to assure any offspring is from his lineage. This isn't true. I know what you're referencing, but it has nothing to do with foreskins. It was a hypothesis of a professor named Gordon Gallup, who attempted to test it by scooping wet cornstarch from a receptacle with dildos. Dildos don't have a functional foreskin. There is just no convincing evidence …
/r/MensRights21/02/21 03:55 AM
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You're very welcome. The foreskin is indeed the most sensitive part of the penis. It is primary erogenous tissue, and it serves other functions as well like protecting the head of the penis, making sexual activity more comfortable by working as a rolling bearing to provide mechanical lubrication, and providing enough tissue for comfort during the increase in size that occurs with erections. Plus, evidence suggests that an intact foreskin can make intercourse more comfortable for a man's partner …
/r/MensRights04/01/21 09:46 AM
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I appreciate your willingness to examine this matter. The idea of cutting off a boy's foreskin for hypothetical "medical benefits" is a post-hoc rationalization that wouldn't even be taken seriously if we were talking about ablating a part of the body if it weren't already an established ritual. Dr. Andrew Freedman, who was part of the American Academy of Pediatrics's ad hoc task force on circumcision and helped draft their (by now long-expired) 2012 position statement which held that the "benef…
/r/MensRights04/01/21 09:02 AM
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Your post reminded me how dogs were circumcised (NSFL) to test out newer circumcision methods.
/r/MensRights04/01/21 04:52 AM
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I beg your pardon; I don't understand what you mean. Edit: Oh, I see what the misunderstanding was. I meant "hide" as in "skin". I wasn't referring to a hiding place. What I meant was that you have to be strong in the face of negativity.
/r/MensRights04/01/21 03:35 AM
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You have to have a tough hide to be an intactivist. Let their laughter be water off a duck's back.
/r/MensRights04/01/21 03:17 AM
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You have got to stop taking ignorant peoples' evaluations of your character so seriously. I do understand your frustration, and I sympathize. Know that there are those out there who will give your feelings their due consideration and I am so sorry you have been treated unkindly and without due respect.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/01/21 10:42 PM
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Filipino culture has even more myths about MGM and the foreskin than American culture does. There are so many misconceptions to correct. I wish you success!
/r/MensRights03/01/21 09:40 PM
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Summary: This article discusses the horrific human rights abuses boys are subjected to in ritualistic genital mutilation ceremonies. Although the boys are sworn to secrecy, often under the threat of murder, some have come forward to blow the whistle.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/01/21 11:43 PM
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There are minority denominations of Islam, e.g. Quaranism, which do not practice circumcision of any kind. There are also Muslims in Eastern Europe and some in East Asia who have to an extent abandoned the practice.
/r/MensRights01/01/21 11:22 PM
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The practice of MBP is largely confined to the strictly orthodox denominations (fruma), who make up a minority of Jewish people in the world. In modern times, MBP is simply not common outside frum communities. There are Jewish people out there who literally have never heard of it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/01/21 09:39 PM
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Iceland has stopped parents from cutting penises. Unfortunately they have not; it hasn't been banned there, at least not yet. Several political parties there do officially support a ban though.
/r/MensRights18/12/20 06:50 AM
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Not to mention the ridged band.
/r/MensRights18/12/20 02:26 AM
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The idea of amputating (or burning alive) the most sensitive parts of someone else's penis without their informed consent for hypothetical "health benefits" is a post-hoc rationalization that wouldn't even be taken seriously if we were talking about destroying a healthy, functional part of the body that wasn't already removed for cultural, ritualistic purposes. Dr. Andrew Freedman, who was part of the American Academy of Pediatrics's ad hoc task force on circumcision and helped draft their (by n…
/r/MensRights18/12/20 02:00 AM
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I've heard a bit about that in the media recently.
/r/MensRights18/12/20 01:26 AM
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I'm sorry to hear it. You are not alone in that.
/r/MensRights18/12/20 12:56 AM
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The amount of skin removed by male cutting is approximately the size of a credit card That's approximately the amount of skin removed (or what it would have grown to amount to had it been allowed to remain into adulthood), but if you include the inner mucosa, the foreskin is more or less twice that size in area. It is important to keep in mind that the foreskin is a double-sided structure, and roughly half the foreskin is mucous membrane (similar to the inner lining of the vagina), not skin.
/r/MensRights18/12/20 12:30 AM
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A lot of the problems regarding hunger in India are due to corruption. You're absolutely right that India frequently produces food surpluses. The problem is that the corruption and callousness of some of the people in power prevents the people in need from actually accessing the food. I would be happy to see India succeed and move towards becoming a developed country, eliminating issues like starvation etc. It's very sad and angering that there are people actively working to stop this from happe…
/r/MensRights18/12/20 12:01 AM
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People try to compare MGM done in a hospital setting in a developed country to FGM performed in primitive conditions to make that statement. One could just as easily do the inverse, and compare Type 1A or type 4 FGM performed in a Singaporean hospital to MGM performed in primitive conditions in Africa and then say that the risks and complications of MGM are "infinitely more dire" than FGM. It works, if you ignore the whole situation and only compare select examples. The majority of both male and…
/r/MensRights17/12/20 10:52 PM
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Well, that's just crazy talk.
/r/MensRights17/11/20 01:50 AM
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just cuts skin like mgm I'm afraid you've been lied to. MGM does not "just cut skin". The parts of the penis that are removed during male circumcision are the most sensitive parts of the entire penis. The types of tissue lost include some skin (which itself isn't anything to minimize--skin is an incredibly important organ), but also mucous membrane (similar to the inner lining of the vagina) and smooth muscle tissue that affects the way the penis works as a unit. As noted in the above link: The …
/r/MensRights29/10/20 03:31 PM
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Dr. Nagarawala, and I believe all (or at least most) of the patients she abused were Dawoodi Bohra, a denomination of Islam for whom FGM is a practice codified in their religious texts. You can look up her case to learn more, when you feel able (I understand this is an emotionally difficult topic).
/r/MensRights28/10/20 08:50 PM
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She isn't a medical doctor, so no worries there. But sadly there are medical doctors who underwent FGM themselves and support the practice. Have you heard about the Nagarwala case? Recently a doctor named Jumana Nagarwala was found to have been performing FGM in Michigan at the request of parents of young girls who brought them to her. She was taken to trial, but unfortunately got off on a technicality.
/r/MensRights28/10/20 08:46 PM
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The fear of backlash, ostracization, and social consequences are definitely major reasons why many women support FGM. Another reason is the compulsion to repeat the trauma, a maladaptive coping mechanism in which someone who was hurt feels the need to deal with it by doing the same thing to someone else, which at an emotional level serves to "prove", in a sense, that what was done to them was somehow okay.
/r/MensRights28/10/20 08:44 PM
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It's great that you're spreading awareness of FGM. It would be helpful to learn as much as you can about it, which would include understanding that there are many forms of FGM, and the "operations" are performed in many different settings. Not every woman who has experienced FGM reports suffering chronic pain. Many say that they are glad they were cut. Neither of those facts makes forcing FGM onto an innocent child or adult woman ethical. Many other FGM survivors do report long-term side effects…
/r/MensRights28/10/20 08:38 PM
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Hey, thanks for the reply. There are many forms of both FGM and MGM, and the consequences can vary widely depending on many factors. Considerations of sex or gender aren't reliable proxies for the degree of damage involved. Androus (2004) (PDF) put it quite well when he said There is too much variability in the types of procedures performed for generalizations about either sex to be useful. The question of whether it's worse for girls or for boy[s] is a wrongly conceived question. It is a vast o…
/r/MensRights28/10/20 08:25 PM
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Genital mutilation needs to stop, full stop. Most of what this survivor recounts often applies to males as well. Many boys die or are severely and permanently disabled as a result of MGM every year. And beyond that, such deaths are not entirely confined to developing countries either. Male and female genital mutilation are aspects of the same over-arching issue--a lack of respect for a person's right to remain intact. People are getting needlessly injured, and sometimes even killed. It needs to …
/r/MensRights28/10/20 08:06 PM
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That urologist is woefully ignorant and putting your son's health at risk, as well as presumably the health of many of their other patients. Here is some highly relevant peer-reviewed information from a board-certified urologist who actually knows how the foreskin develops. PFFR and the phony phimosis diagnosis are epidemics in the U.S.
/r/MensRights27/10/20 07:34 PM
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Spend some time learning about the functions of the foreskin and the damage caused by male circumcision. As an American you were almost certainly told that the foreskin is "a flap of extra skin hanging off the end of the penis and which is removed for better health", which is egregiously wrong on every level. The foreskin is the primary sensory tissue of the human penis. Almost all the specialized touch-sensitive and stretch-sensitive nerve endings are in the foreskin, and yet millions of men ha…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/10/20 06:29 PM
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That's an absurdly fitting example of the no true Scotsman.
/r/MensRights13/10/20 06:58 PM
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Regarding hygiene, some parents (and unfortunately some healthcare professionals) mistakenly think that a baby's foreskin requires some complex or difficult cleaning ritual, when that is not the case at all. Taking care of an intact baby's penis is easier than taking care of a circumcision wound. Parents of sons with intact foreskins who understand proper foreskin care know that contaminants do not normally get caught in a baby's foreskin, because the opening of a baby's foreskin is small, with …
/r/MensRights24/08/20 08:27 AM
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This is a news report about two boys who died as a result of MGM. I posted a different video about it, but it wasn't in English, so I deleted it and replaced it with this one after finding it. This one is basically the same video, but it includes a summary of the incident at the beginning in English.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/08/20 04:24 AM
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Don't misrepresent my arguments. It's defamatory. At no point did I argue for the "oppression of [your] gender"--for that matter, you don't even know what gender I am. I made it abundantly clear that I am opposed to FGM and MGM in all their forms.
/r/MensRights14/07/20 01:04 PM
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I know! It's just appalling.
/r/MensRights13/07/20 03:16 PM
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There is no credible evidence that ablation of the male prepuce is necessary or useful in terms of hygiene (Royal Dutch Medical Association, 2010). The idea is based on misconceptions, chief among which may be a misunderstanding of how the prepuce develops. It is also a post hoc rationalization used to defend circumcision, despite its inaccuracy. Physicians, nurses, parents, et al. who understand preputial development know that contaminants do not normally get caught in a baby's foreskin, becaus…
/r/MensRights13/07/20 02:18 PM
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Alon Sivroni!
/r/MensRights13/07/20 09:31 AM
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Even pathological phimosis can usually be resolved without surgery. In cases where surgery is necessary, as little tissue as possible should be ablated to preserve as much functionality as can be preserved.
/r/MensRights13/07/20 09:30 AM
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Part 3 of 3 Regarding the idea that MGM is divorced from the ethos of controlling male sexuality This is a relatively recent idea that became popular in the late 20th Century, as sexual norms had changed. In fact, MGM has explicitly been advocated for the purpose of controlling male sexuality for thousands of years, from antiquity, to the Middle Ages, to the 20th Century, and to an extent even today. In the first century, the philosopher Philo of Alexandria believed that among the "benefits" of …
/r/MensRights13/07/20 04:41 AM
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Part 2 of 3 Regarding the physical damage caused by FGM In America and the rest of the west, people often think of "male circumcision" as being something minor, performed in a hospital in clean conditions, and "female circumcision" as something major, performed in dirty conditions. The reality is that this is a mistaken conceptualization of the situation. While it is severe in many cases, the physical damage caused by FGM falls along a wide spectrum. The most severe forms are often emphasized in…
/r/MensRights13/07/20 04:40 AM
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(Part 1 of 3) Let me begin by making it clear that I am opposed to all forms of non-therapeutic, non-consensual genital cutting (NGC), and I think that's a place where we could fairly easily find some common ground. That being said, unfortunately, some of the information you've posted just isn't correct. A lot of your comment consists of common misconceptions. I think it's important to have an accurate conception of a situation when we consider it and talk about it, and I hope that is a place wh…
/r/MensRights13/07/20 04:39 AM
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You're very welcome.
/r/MensRights13/07/20 02:25 AM
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Yes, that is caused by circumcision. The reason for the difference in coloration is because the tissue between the head of the penis and the circumcision scar is a remnant of the foreskin's smooth mucosa. It was turned inside-out and used to cover your shaft, to make up for skin that had been removed. While all circumcisions damage the penis, not all of them produce this two-tone effect. It depends on the "style" of the cut.
/r/MensRights13/07/20 02:17 AM
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Hello. Your reminded me of the findings of this recent study. False Beliefs Predict Increased Circumcision Satisfaction in a Sample of US American Men Critics of non-therapeutic male and female childhood genital cutting claim that such cutting is harmful. It is therefore puzzling that 'circumcised' women and men do not typically regard themselves as having been harmed by the cutting, notwithstanding the loss of sensitive, prima facie valuable tissue. For female genital cutting (FGC), a commonly …
/r/MensRights13/07/20 02:03 AM
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That happened to the professional gamer Jason Zimmerman, AKAMew2King.
/r/MensRights13/07/20 01:57 AM
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In fact, buried penis and micropenis are different issues. Micropenis is congenital, not a circumcision complication. But buried penis can be either something a baby is born with due to genetics, or it can be a complication of circumcision. Sometimes it can even be both--a baby can be born with a buried penis, then circumcised, making the problem much worse than it even was before.
/r/MensRights13/07/20 01:40 AM
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As a boy grows up, the foreskin and the glans gradually separate into two structures, and the opening of the foreskin gets bigger, so the foreskin can be moved up and down the penis, drawing back to cover the shaft and expose the head of the penis. This can happen at variable ages. When it happens, the young man can pull his own foreskin back in the shower and wash under it. But people think this applies to infants, and that helps reinforce the myth because when people try to force back an infan…
/r/MensRights13/07/20 01:31 AM
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Yep. A baby's foreskin doesn't need to be retracted to clean under it because in infancy, the foreskin and the head of the penis are basically one structure, and the opening of the baby's foreskin is very small, with a muscle that opens during urination, and closes back up afterwards, to keep contaminants from getting inside the penis. You just need to gently wash the outside with warm water and maybe a soft, clean washcloth. That's it. More info
/r/MensRights12/07/20 04:31 PM
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My family told me when I first asked them about me being circumcised was they did it because it was easier to wash me and not have to worry about messing up and I getting an infection of some kind. So I dont even have a valid reason for it other than laziness. At least religion would make me feel like you did it because of a dumb ideology at least. Yeah, that's a common reason given for doing it. There's another layer to it, too. The fact is that some parents (and unfortunately some healthcare p…
/r/MensRights12/07/20 04:14 PM
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That wouldn't be an accurate description of the procedure, but it's not too far off from what a lot of people think circumcision is. Circumcision is the amputation of the prepuce, also known as the foreskin. The foreskin is a complex, multi-functional, moving part of the penis that is made of skin, mucous membrane (a type of tissue similar to the inside of your cheeks), smooth muscle (as in the scrotum) and a muco-cutaneous junctional zone (similar to how the lips are a junction between the skin…
/r/MensRights12/07/20 03:55 PM
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This presentation by Dr. Christopher Guest has a lot of good information (NSFW)
/r/MensRights12/07/20 03:36 PM
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You have no fucking idea what the OP could be going through. You're the one who's being insensitive, not OP.
/r/MensRights30/06/20 06:38 AM
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The truth is stranger than fiction.
/r/MensRights20/06/20 08:23 AM
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I'm uncircumcised, as an Australian, thats the norm. Its the norm worldwide. I have no doubt there are people advocating for circumcision for more than just religious reasons. The WHO(or it was some other very large organization and I've never been able to find it again and it annoys the hell out of me) had a guy write an endorsement of the procedure, while owning a patent for a machine that does it. Sounds to me like you're referring to David Tomlinson, in which case yes, it was the WHO (he is,…
/r/MensRights17/06/20 07:17 AM
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Unfortunately people make fun of trash collectors too.
/r/MensRights13/05/20 06:30 AM
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Things have changed. 10 years ago, if a man were to speak out about how he wished he hadn't had his foreskin mutilated, he would get dogpiled with pure hatred. They'd call him every name in the book. "Loser", "Neckbeard", you name it. Support was very rare. Now that really isn't the case--at least not as much as it was. Yes, he'll get some haters, but more people know about what the foreskin is, and why it's an important part of the body, not "just some extra skin". More and more people are waki…
/r/MensRights18/04/20 12:22 AM
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Because these "researchers" have a contemptuous, insulting, and unscientific view of male sensuality that reduces it to the perception of crude stimuli. Men, appreciating gentle touch? No, no...that cannot be.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/04/20 12:47 AM
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There is no convincing evidence that circumcision is useful or necessary in terms of prevention or hygiene. Partly in the light of the complications which can arise during or after circumcision, circumcision is not justifiable except on medical/ therapeutic grounds. Insofar as there are medical benefits, such as a possibly reduced risk of HIV infection, it is reasonable to put off circumcision until the age at which such a risk is relevant and the boy himself can decide about the intervention, o…
/r/MensRights26/03/20 07:40 PM
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Phillip Morris, or Brian Morris?
/r/MensRights19/02/20 12:42 AM
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This presentation is just over 30 minutes long, but it's packed with information about this topic (NSFW)
/r/MensRights17/02/20 09:49 AM
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I'd be willing to just delete this thread and repost it under that title. Would that work?
/r/MensRights10/02/20 02:18 AM
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I'd never even heard the word "foreskin" until high school, and it's not a word you'd ever hear a bio or sex ed teacher say. Have you heard about the ridged band?
/r/MensRights01/02/20 09:20 AM
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No need to sign up. Just scroll down! I didn't notice you could do that myself, at first.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/20 06:21 PM
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This is important. The "maybe circumcision was good for preventing infections then but now we have hygiene" argument is not only mistaken; it perpetuates the idea that foreskins are a dirty or disease-prone body part that require difficult maintenance, or some huge amount of water to clean, or some other absurdity. Premature foreskin retraction is a major reason why some intact boys struggle with foreskin issues and infections--this is a problem of improper care, not a problem with the foreskin …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/01/20 09:39 PM
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The legal status of MGM is questionable to say the least.
/r/MensRights22/01/20 07:47 AM
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