How to stop male infant circumcision or advocate against male infant circumcision?

Professional-Art5476 · 2024-10-01T05:43:25+00:00

Probably by debunking the "benefits" of it would be a decent place to start.

GDACK · 2024-10-01T13:42:09+00:00

There is a sub dedicated to fighting male genital mutilation. I think it’s called intactivism or something. Search Reddit for circumcision subs and you’ll find it. There are a lot of activists on there and none of the “well it happens to females too” crowd.

Good luck and well done for taking up the challenge to fight this abhorrent practice!

gamejunky34 · 2024-10-01T15:11:33+00:00

Start advocating for female genital mutilation, and just say the exact same things they say to defend circumcision.

Legitimate_Style_212 · 2024-10-01T15:41:31+00:00

Tell them europe doesn't do this to males and there's no pandemic over here. It's time that your peers learned about human rights and consent and that boys deserve choices.

ReferendumAutonomic · 2024-10-01T13:07:04+00:00

Search your constitution for words like bodily integrity, freedom of religion (to not be forced into parent's religion), and other laws about people under age 18 not being assaulted. A lawyer can bring it to court https://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/et00000_.html

EvelynsLair · 2024-10-01T05:58:50+00:00

Wow, that sounds like an uphill battle, but being a trailblazer never is easy, right? Education and awareness campaigns focusing on the lack of medical necessity and potential harm could be a start. Use humor and facts to flip the script—make the stigma the absurdity. If people are calling names, you're definitely making waves.

VlijmenFileer · 2024-10-01T08:27:41+00:00

How to stop male infant circumcision or advocate against male infant circumcision?

For starters, start calling it what it is: "Male Genital Mutilation", and be absolutely consistent in it.

Main-Tiger8593 · 2024-10-01T05:32:15+00:00

correct me if im wrong but is religion not the main reason for circumcision followed by medical reasons?

TsuNaru · 2024-10-01T15:44:45+00:00

Knowledge. It's frustrating how this answer eludes so many of you. You have to tell people what the foreskin is and how important it is, with studies.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23374102/

Conclusions: "This study confirms the importance of the foreskin for penile sensitivity, overall sexual satisfaction, and penile functioning. Furthermore, this study shows that a higher percentage of circumcised men experience discomfort or pain and unusual sensations as compared with the uncircumcised population."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17378847/

Conclusions: "The glans (tip) of the circumcised penis is less sensitive to fine touch than the glans of the uncircumcised penis. The transitional region from the external to the internal prepuce (foreskin) is the most sensitive region of the uncircumcised penis and more sensitive than the most sensitive region of the circumcised penis. Circumcision ablates the most sensitive parts of the penis."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00809-6

Conclusions: “In this national cohort study spanning more than three decades of observation, non-therapeutic circumcision in infancy or childhood did not appear to provide protection against HIV or other STIs in males up to the age of 36 years. Rather, non-therapeutic circumcision was associated with higher STI rates overall, particularly for anogenital warts and syphilis.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-021-00502-y

Conclusions: “We conclude that non-therapeutic circumcision performed on otherwise healthy infants or children has little or no high-quality medical evidence to support its overall benefit. Moreover, it is associated with rare but avoidable harm and even occasional deaths. From the perspective of the individual boy, there is no medical justification for performing a circumcision prior to an age that he can assess the known risks and potential benefits, and choose to give or withhold informed consent himself. We feel that the evidence presented in this review is essential information for all parents and practitioners considering non-therapeutic circumcisions on otherwise healthy infants and children.”

AbilityRough5180 · 2024-10-01T12:47:29+00:00

It’s an uphill battle, better waiting for them to seculairise more first and hopefully be inflicted by a western medical practice of banning it unless required otherwise.

torrso · 2024-10-01T07:56:09+00:00

Best might be if there was a good compact video about the subject that you could ask people to watch and tell you what their opinion about it is. The video would explain where the tradition came from, what are the risks and if any of the alleged benefits are real.

You would just be asking for an opinion about a video instead of appearing as trying to convince people of something they don't want to hear or believe.

Vlasic69 · 2024-10-01T16:05:41+00:00

I just info bomb people with how the operation actually affects the body till they feel guilty and if they try to protect how they feel I use sales tactics to change the value till they're intrigued and repeat. I wash out the comfort of slicing off a dudes dick without external resentment

Notcreative345 · 2024-10-01T09:46:45+00:00

They use the 20,000 nerve skin for creams and sell it so it will never stop unless it’s legal to do it to girls then women will complain and only when it’s a women problem will it ever be looked at.

SimonPopeDK · 2024-10-01T21:52:47+00:00

Its pretty much the same everywhere and irrespective of gender. The reason for it is to brand the new generation as belonging to the community, to discourage exogamy and to show allegiance. Therefore the tactics of shaming and derogating normal anatomy not least as disease ridden. Its very difficult to advocate against it, perhaps even dangerous. In your situation I'd say the best is to spread awareness of how Western cutting propaganda also encourages the cutting of girls, of deaths and high morbidity (unintended) etc. to Western audiences.

AdministrativeAide47 · 2024-10-01T08:57:44+00:00

While it might have benefits it should be a choice made in full mental capacity ( legal age ), in safety conditions.

Baddog1965 · 2024-10-01T08:20:53+00:00

It's very difficult to change prevailing wisdom, especially when both medically and culturally / religiously 'justified', and you certainly can't do it by yourself. You can't hire to change everything all in one go either. I would look for the weakest element or circumstance and get together with others and see if you can make headway on that one element first.

MembershipWooden6160 · 2024-10-02T21:58:38+00:00

Make it a serious crime as it should be, then start enforcing it by sending people to jail. Make sure that men (who sue their parents, doctors or whoever performed it) are compensated with large sums of money and make sure that these people are sent to prison. You'll see the results in real time very soon, there will be some sporadic events for some time but this practice will be curbed from mainstream very quickly.

sgcamp · 2024-10-01T15:26:28+00:00

Changing society is hard and parents have to determine what is best for them based on their culture.

I'm happy to be uncut due to something when I was born and no one in the immediate family is cut. Religion and family wise, sons have to stay intact. The whole waiting until 18 is BS too. Kid needs to get a girl to like him and what he's fully packing. 🙄

Changing what a family does or doesn't do is crazy hard.

PurpleSpark8 · 2024-10-01T07:23:56+00:00

What's this got to do with men's rights? If the circumsised men are happy, then why do you feel to add fuel and fire to it?

fanatic26 · 2024-10-01T14:01:24+00:00

I am 100% happy i was circumsized as a child. I dont have some stinky smegma covered dick from all the extra skin.

Its not a bad thing, i dont know why people act like it is.

Life_Engineering5333 · 2024-10-01T16:10:09+00:00

Why? I'd be mad at my parents if they chose not to circumcise me. I have no recollection of it

weblscraper · 2024-10-01T08:41:08+00:00

There are tons of evidence about the reduction of UTI, STI, among other things

Can you provide some medical research that shows otherwise?

I am personally happy that I am circumcised

Excellent-Berry-2331 · 2024-10-01T05:56:31+00:00

Your best bet is to read the historical western philosophers of the enlightenment or renaissance, and hope that people will eventually listen to your philosophy, and not behead you for heresy. Focusing on free will and individuality.

I, personally, promote parental choice, there are tangible benefits to circumcision, not just aestetic ones. The medical papers against it are questionable, and generally come from biased sources. While there's a wealth of research asserting tangible health benefits.

But your bigger issue is the culture, and that is easier to argue in the debate of circumcision.

Title	How to stop male infant circumcision or advocate against male infant circumcision?
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Date	October 1, 2024 5:22 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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