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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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2	Female Medical Doctor mocks anti-infant circumcision protestors. When you cut off part of a man's penis, it becomes smaller than it was before. Remove part of any body part and what's remaining will be less than what it was before. Remove the earlobes and the ear will be smaller, remove a toe and the foot will be smaller, etc. Circumcised men who 'restore' their foreskins gain girth just by restoring lost skin on their shaft. Some times 'restoring' men also gain length due to the fact that tight circumcisions don't allow the penis full room to expand due to l…	/r/MensRights	07/06/19 05:18 PM
10	Female Medical Doctor mocks anti-infant circumcision protestors. Yeah, her argument is irrelevant. It's also cruelly ironic, which was the point of my comment. I'm definitely not endorsing the view that circumcised men should be ashamed of the reduction in penis size caused by circumcision. And I'm glad you're at a good place with your body.	/r/MensRights	03/06/19 02:10 AM
17	Female Genital Mutilation Still Common in Indonesia Male genital mutilation is more common in Indonesia than female genital mutilation. Not even mentioned in the article. “It’s hard to see her crying like this, but it is tradition,” Time to start a new tradition. A tradition of not cutting your kids' private parts Khadijah Ibrahim, a healer, said that the girls who do not go through the procedure will be at risk of developing disabilities and mental problems. Where have we heard these claims before?	/r/MensRights	02/06/19 11:47 PM
12	Female Medical Doctor mocks anti-infant circumcision protestors. Cleft palates and club foots are deformities that cause health problems and require medical attention. Consent isn't necessary when a surgery is medically necessary. It's weird that you think that a healthy foreskin should he treated the same as a birth defect. Immunizations rarely cause permanent injury. Male circumcision causes permanent injury every time. A small risk of harm with a high chance of benefit is very different from a guarantee of harm with low chance of benefit.	/r/MensRights	02/06/19 08:26 PM
38	Female Medical Doctor mocks anti-infant circumcision protestors. I think it should be, "not your penis, not yours to cut" Because there are mothers who are against forced circ AND fathers who are for it. And no parent should be allowed to circumcise their son, regardless of what genitals they have.	/r/MensRights	02/06/19 07:57 PM
21	Female Medical Doctor mocks anti-infant circumcision protestors. Then there's also the issue of consent. Being against forced circumcision is not anti-circumcision. It's pro-consent, pro-choice, etc.	/r/MensRights	02/06/19 07:10 PM
31	Female Medical Doctor mocks anti-infant circumcision protestors. Cuts off part of your dick, making it smaller When you speak up about the abuse, tries to shame you for not 'measuring up'	/r/MensRights	02/06/19 05:06 PM
1	End child circumsision Might be too late for us, but it's not too late for the next generation	/r/MensRights	31/05/19 07:19 PM
4	End child circumsision Routine infant circumcision is a medically unnecessary procedure that removes the foreskin, which is not only the most sensitive part of an intact penis, but also has an important role in providing natural lubrication and protection for the male organ. Circumcision should only be performed on people who are old enough to consent and understand what they will be losing if they are circumcised.	/r/MensRights	31/05/19 08:28 AM
5	End child circumsision That's because male circumcisions are (fairly) rare in Africa According to the WHO, 26 African countries have a male circumcision rate of more than 80%, while there are only eight countries where female circumcision rates are greater than 80%. Not only is MGM more common in Africa than FGM, but the majority of African countries have around the same number of circumcised males as the US does, or more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File…	/r/MensRights	31/05/19 07:36 AM
2	End child circumsision The most common forms of FGM involve cutting the female genitalia without removing any tissue. Others involve removing part of the labia. (Source) Removing part/all of the clitoral hood or the clitoris happens only in the rarer forms of FGM. You're right that FGM can involve more than cutting off skin (so can MGM), but this is generally not the case.	/r/MensRights	31/05/19 12:52 AM
8	End child circumsision Infants don't need to consent to medically necessary procedures, no one does. But circumcision is not medically necessary, so the club foot / cleft palate analogy doesn't work. Vaccines rarely cause permanent injury, whereas male circumcision causes permanent injury every time. Vaccines are the best way to prevent certain common illnesses, whereas there are more effective non-surgical alternatives to circumcision. Most adults consent to being vaccinated, virtually no adults consent to circumcisi…	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 02:40 PM
3	End child circumsision Do you have a source for those comparisons re: death and complications? I've been looking everywhere for MGM/FGM death rates and I'm having a hard time finding anything.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 05:39 AM
5	End child circumsision No side effects that you're aware of. Removing parts of the penis will change the way the penis works. It might not bother you because you don't know what having a foreskin is like, but it's not like it functions the exact same as it otherwise would have.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 05:16 AM
28	End child circumsision His body, his choice.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 04:20 AM
22	End child circumsision Some studies show that male circumcision may reduce the risk of heterosexual men contracting HIV. (On the other hand, there more effective ways to protect yourself against HIV that don't involve surgery: wearing a condom, practicing abstinence, having fewer partners, etc. Also cutting a baby's penis to prevent HIV makes no sense since babies don't have sex) Some studies show that removing the foreskin might reduce the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs in boys can be easily treated with anti…	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 04:06 AM
36	End child circumsision Yes, men and women who were circumcised as infants feel less sexual pleasure than men and women with intact genitalia.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 03:41 AM
13	End child circumsision In many cases, such as mine, doctors don't leave enough skin to accommodate full erections, causing skin to become painfully stretched and torn during erections. Do you know how common this is? This happened to me as well, before I started restoring.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 03:34 AM
6	End child circumsision Correct, you are growing new shaft skin which eventually covers the glans and looks like a foreskin but is not actually a foreskin. It does have some of the functions of a foreskin though, like providing natural lubrication and protecting the glans from abrasion and dryness. And it does increase sexual sensitivity, just not as much as a real foreskin would. I also think restoring does help mental pain around circumcision. Restoring has been a way for me to cope with negative feelings around bein…	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 03:28 AM
9	End child circumsision There's some Chinese company that invented an adult circumcision device and is trying to convince Chinese college students to use it. Citing 'health benefits' and all that. It's a real thing, I'm just not sure that it's been very successful so far, but we'll see.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 03:20 AM
10	End child circumsision Just want to point out that circumcision is rare in China. Almost all of the hundreds of millions of Chinese men are intact.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 03:04 AM
16	End child circumsision I gave you an upvote for asking an honest question. It's OK not to know much about this topic, most people dont'.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 02:58 AM
19	End child circumsision Yes, circumcision is absolutely OK as long as parents agree to it! But only if the parents are the ones being circumcised. I also heard that you can reverse the circumcision procedure, but I don't know much about it. 'Foreskin restoration' is something of a misnomer. I'm restoring and it has improved my health tremendously, but it does not reverse most of the damage done by circumcision. Your frenulum will not grow back, the nerve endings in your foreskin will not grow back, your ridged band wil…	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 02:51 AM
8	There is a glimmer of hope yet for the battle of circumcision. Think about how Americans view male circumcision vs. female circumcision. Female circumcision is wrong, according to Americans, because: it reduces a woman's sexual pleasure, it's painful, it leads to infections and blood loss, some women die from circumcision, it violates a woman's bodily autonomy, historically FGM has been used to control women's sexuality. Every single one of the above points is true about male circumcision as well, but Americans still overwhelmingly support the practice rema…	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 02:21 AM
12	End child circumsision The UN estimates that around 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone some form of genital cutting. It happens all over Africa, Middle East and SE Asia. Less common than MGM for sure, but not exactly isolated or rare by any means.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 02:05 AM
28	End child circumsision When an adult man is circumcised he is given adequate anesthesia and goes home with a prescription for painkillers. When an infant boy is circumcised, most are given no anesthesia and of course none of them are taking painkillers during the recovery. Not to mention that babies feel pain more acutely than adults do. It's absolutely horrible to subject a baby to something that you know would be agonizing for an adult just because the baby won't consciously remember when he's older. If you wait til…	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 02:00 AM
16	End child circumsision The foreskin is important to normal penile function and should not be removed without a male's consent or medical necessity. Most circumcisions in the world happen without either, that's what's wrong.	/r/MensRights	30/05/19 01:45 AM
19	There is a glimmer of hope yet for the battle of circumcision. Circumcision is not a medical debate. Purposefully damaging a healthy sexual organ is not medicine. This is a cultural practice which has its roots in ignorance about male anatomy, belief in male disposability, and hatred of male sexuality.	/r/MensRights	29/05/19 04:17 PM
3	Male circumcision: 'My penis was mutilated' Sad but true. It would be great to see a country like Iceland or Denmark go through with a ban on forced circumcision. Hopefully that would shift the Overton Window enough that Germany would go through with theirs.	/r/MensRights	29/05/19 12:37 AM
3	Male circumcision: 'My penis was mutilated' Freedom of religion means letting a boy grow up and decide for himself what his religious beliefs are, not allowing his parents to carve their religion into his penis. Making permanent alterations to a child's body for religious reasons violates that child's right to freely practice different religious beliefs later.	/r/MensRights	29/05/19 12:35 AM
2	Male circumcision: 'My penis was mutilated' I understand what you're saying, and I feel the same way. It's important to emphasis that this issue goes beyond each individual decision made by parents. This is a cultural, institutional, systemic problem. Yes, parents who force circumcision on their sons do share some responsibility. But most of the blame lies with the doctors and companies who profit off of this procedure, the American medical orgs that misrepresent this practice to the public, and the religious lobbies that shut down any op…	/r/MensRights	29/05/19 12:13 AM
49	Male circumcision: 'My penis was mutilated' And it's amazing how many people we come across with stories like yours and they are just dismissed Men get dismissed when we say that we are unhappy being circumcised, so we don't speak up. Since we don't speak up, people say "I've never heard a man say that he doesn't like being circumcised" as a way to dismiss other men. Then they don't speak up. It's a vicious cycle. Good on Ashley for putting his story out there.	/r/MensRights	27/05/19 04:33 AM
10	Circumcision is child abuse I feel the same way. Even if all of the claims about circumcision preventing disease were true, I'd still rather have a whole penis. This is such a personal decision. Sure it's based on scientific evidence but it's also based on personal values about sex and it should never be made by someone else. I have someone else's beliefs and preferences carved into my body now. I'm trapped in someone else's worldview to a certain degree. Unfortunately there is a tendency in some cultures to see male sexua…	/r/MensRights	27/05/19 02:23 AM
8	Circumcision is child abuse Baby cutting is barely even a thing anymore in Canada, Australia, New Zealand - and rates are plummeting in the US as well. Forced circumcision is on the way out all over the Western world. This is just the beginning.	/r/MensRights	27/05/19 02:04 AM
14	Circumcision is child abuse No one ever asked us whether we wanted to keep our foreskins, they just starting cutting. So I guess the concept of bodily autonomy is a foreign concept for a lot of us. Also, when you grow up being told that the foreskin is a birth defect and a vector for disease, you probably assume that everyone has to have it removed eventually.	/r/MensRights	27/05/19 01:58 AM
10	Circumcision is child abuse OP is against removing extra skin when they're a baby That skin isn't extra, it's there for natural lubrication and protecting the glans. And when too much skin is removed, it causes painful erections because there is not enough skin on the shaft for the penis to expand fully during an erection. Circumcision also removes part or all of the frenulum along with 20,000 nerve endings. That's a lot to lose. have fun telling your son why you thought you were right by not getting it done. If a boy want…	/r/MensRights	27/05/19 12:50 AM
24	Circumcision is child abuse "I wouldn't want it done to me now" aaand since you're an adult, it wouldn't be done to you! The only reason it happened when you were a kid is because you couldn't fight back. I don't understand how so many guys don't get this.	/r/MensRights	27/05/19 12:34 AM
6	Circumcision is child abuse And I responded to your anecdotes with facts. What's the problem?	/r/MensRights	26/05/19 10:15 PM
15	Circumcision is child abuse False, the countries trying to ban forced circumcision (like Germany or Iceland) are majority intact men, and circumcised men are most likely to want their sons sliced.	/r/MensRights	26/05/19 09:51 PM
1	Circumcision is child abuse My first partner was intact and he showered once a day - soap and water, nothing fancy, in and out in 5 minutes. He also didn't have smegma or a foul odor. Not sure what's going on for you that you need to be cleaning more than that.	/r/MensRights	26/05/19 09:48 PM
4	Circumcision is child abuse I mean what else should we expect? The health claims are totally fabricated anyway so they can change their talking points whenever they want to whatever they want. That's a benefit of making claims not grounded in reality	/r/MensRights	26/05/19 09:11 PM
21	Circumcision is child abuse Americans circumcise today because of made-up health benefits and "he needs to look like his dad." Not even knowing that the real reason they circumcise is because of religious extremists who were terrified of masturbation and sexual pleasure.	/r/MensRights	26/05/19 08:34 PM