100 peer-reviewed scientific studies have found male circumcision painful, traumatic, or psychologically harmful to men and boys

seppa_ilmarinen · 2014-06-26T08:39:29+00:00

It's incredible that we even need studies to convince otherwise sane people that ripping, crushing, and cutting a newborns genitals is wrong.

OscarTheTitan · 2014-06-26T09:44:58+00:00

As someone circumcised at birth, even though I don't remember the pain, this really speaks to me because it has indeed psychologically harmed me. No one seems to recognised the awfulness of the situation. It's mutilation. Plain and simple

maniakb416 · 2014-06-26T10:16:28+00:00

It was actually my wife who convinced me that we wont be circumsizing our (yet to be comcieved) son. And with the simplest logic.

Her: "Why?"

Me: "Because I am and I think my dad is."

Her: "you wanna match?"

Me: "saying it like that seems creepy."

Her: "cutting your son's penis is creepy. And painful. And causes so many avoidable issues."

Me: "I guess you are right. Nevermind then."

To be fair though I didnt really feel very strongly one way or the other in the first place.

krawm · 2014-06-26T15:48:14+00:00

Wish i had my foreskin, at 42 i am almost completely desensitized as such sex doesn't feel the way it should.

Stratigon13 · 2014-06-26T14:12:11+00:00

I was circumcised and I do not remember the pain I certainly felt. However, the scarring on my penis confused me for years and caused me to think there was something wrong with my penis. I still wonder what sex would feel like if some of my nerve endings were not chopped off.

HQR3 · 2014-06-26T01:18:46+00:00

Important information which I will be saving. It is potentially as much an indictment on MGM as Fiebert's metanalysis is on the mainstream perception of DV.

sweetprince686 · 2014-06-26T14:55:44+00:00

Also the claim is that HIV is reduced by circumcision. However if there was any truth to that its counteracted and undone by the fact that circumcised men are less likely to use condoms.

Your_Bacon_Counselor · 2014-06-26T20:30:17+00:00

It is not your penis to circumcise. (drops mic.)

AustNerevar · 2014-06-26T17:03:30+00:00

And yet, I've even encountered redditors on this sub who didn't think that circumcision is a big deal. It's mindboggling that this goes on in hospitals every day by doctors. It is socially acceptable genital mutilation.

It really makes sick thinking about how many people just don't care that this goes on every day in what is supposed to be a first world country.

WomenAreAlwaysRigh · 2014-06-26T18:00:42+00:00

What the fuck with the hygiene argument? I'm not circumcised and I keep my dick clean and the process is quite easy: showering regularly. And if you don't shower daily then you just wash your dick separately. what's the problem?

intensely_human · 2014-06-26T15:28:37+00:00

I copy-pasted the list of references into a text file. Copy-paste didn't work so well off the weird format of that website, so I manually cleaned it up a bit.

Here's the link: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ee81ce24c3bb44092d98

I'm keeping that for my own records, and may slowly read through it. Future improvements could include a link to full text of each of the articles. If anyone wants to start adding links next to each entry, go right ahead and save as a new version. I think github provides versioning of gists.

Sainsbo · 2014-06-26T14:21:00+00:00

I can't open the link for some reason, so I'm not sure what the article says, but can we have some perspective? 100 peer reviewed studies out of how many?

xDWx · 2014-06-30T05:26:55+00:00

Personally. I'm cut and I'm fine. I don't mind it, sure there may be less sensitivity down there but I don't think it's all that bad. I'm sure it has some help with my bedroom performance and nobody ever judged me for being cut and nobody every judged anyone for not being circumcised. I think people are trying to look into circumcision more than what they should be. At then end of the day it is not a necessary procedure but if people feel it needs done then let them feel that way. I know it's a big thing for women to go and get their daughters ears pierced, it's a little different but the analogy fits. The daughter doesn't need her ears pierced. More problems can arise from it. But if the parent feels it needs done then it needs done. That's the end of it. Everyone needs to worry less about it and maybe some people won't feel so self conscious about being circumcised or not.

Eryemil · 2014-06-27T01:02:37+00:00

Preaching to the choir. Go distribute this shit wherever you live. DO SOMETHING.

Also, all I'm going to say is that in my line of work, I play with a lot of penises. And the only ones that smelled, even after a shower, were uncircumcised.

rg57 · 2014-06-26T04:38:31+00:00

I like that I'm circumcised. It makes my penis really sleek like a rocket ready for blast off. I think you should be able to make the decision when your born.

ModernLawMan · 2014-06-26T06:12:00+00:00

I don't recall mine or have anything negative to say about the process.

Zevverlith · 2014-06-26T13:35:03+00:00

The foreskin is a evolutionary trait leftover from our early ancestors and serves no real purpose in todays society. All it does now is just lead to hygiene and health issues for men when they get older. Also, IMHO, it looks disgusting and unnatural. I'm glad my parents made the decision to get it cut off when I was a baby; And if I ever have a boy of my own, I'll do the same.

Edit: Have fun with your aardvark dicks and premature ejaculations, losers. Maybe, if you knew how to properly warm a chick up, you wouldn't need that extra "lube" to have sex properly. BTW, it is a vestigial structure, because the info you guys posted leads to my original point. Its a piece of skin that served a purpose one point in time to keep the species' going, procreating as much and as quick as possible, to increase the odds of survival.

Edit 2: LOL!!

Edit 3: I should have read more replies before posting here. You guys are fucking weird, like, cultish weird.

ChappedNegroLips · 2014-06-26T12:57:31+00:00

I'm glad my parents circumcised me. I'll do the same for my kids as well. No fun being called sock cock at school. I enjoy not having a pouch on my dong.

Title	100 peer-reviewed scientific studies have found male circumcision painful, traumatic, or psychologically harmful to men and boys
Author	dalkon
Upvotes	285
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Date	June 26, 2014 12:06 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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