No, it doesn't "work just fine"

IrideTheDirt · 2017-10-18T00:51:18+00:00

It does work just fine. My quality of life is great, and being that I am one of the luckier ones, I am thankful for having what I do. Now that said I find genital mutilation to be barbaric and a shameful thing that we still do, based on an idiotic acceptance of a confusion surrounding correlation and causation. I find it horrible. I wish it weren’t done to me, but it was.... now that’s the point I want to get into.....

Men aren’t clamoring to shout from the rooftops that they have a messed up penis. They don’t want to admit it to themselves, and they don’t want to feel like they are inferior, so you’re not going to get a bunch of men who can use their penis as desired with satisfactory effect to proclaim that their dicks were “mutilated”.

Social campaigns like ending a needless elective cosmetic surgery on the genitals of infants are essentially a really hard thing to advertise. Convince men not to do to their baby boy what was done to them....

So I think the approach is wrong, here is a quick attempt at an analogy...

So, you and I both were given first vehicles by our parents. Both of us got working vehicles. They both get us to where we need to go reliably. But one vehicle is in perfect shape. Everything it was equipped with from the factory still works, even the heated seats. The other car has almost nothing working except the basics, even the stereo doesn’t work. But they both have airbags, seatbelts, good tires and are mechanically reliable. They do the job, and as long as you don’t know what it’s like to drive a car with heated seats in the wintertime, you’ll never feel like you’re missing out.... but maybe your kid should know the joys of having functional heated seats, and so when you buy him that first car, don’t rip the heated seats out before he even knows you’ve bought the car, simply because you “never had them and didn’t need them anyway!”.

Most Men won’t ever get on board with complaining that their penis is multilated, even if that’s an accurate statement.

Hirudin · 2017-10-18T01:13:47+00:00

I'm sure my fingers would "work just fine" if my fingernails were surgically removed as an infant. As an adult i'd be used to fingernailless fingers. He'll I wouldn't even have to worry about cleaning under them. Yay!

Still doesn't mean it's something society should allow.

NebulousASK · 2017-10-17T21:00:54+00:00

Medical study:

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

GreasedLightning · 2017-10-18T00:58:08+00:00

If the topic ever comes up I just say, "Yeah, I had no say in whether my dickskin got chopped off, so..."

Nintendobandit · 2017-10-18T00:14:22+00:00

Circumcision is fucking stupid. Enough said.

DarkDoesThings · 2017-10-18T04:02:07+00:00

Circumcision is really amputation for the following reasons:

"Eh,d doesn't need it"

"Yup, reckon that'll keep 'im from masturbatin'"

duckordian · 2017-10-18T08:17:29+00:00

How Foreskin Moves - 1:50

What is the Structure & Function of The Foreskin? (Circumcision) - 19:20

Aeternalis_ · 2017-10-18T17:32:35+00:00

Circumcision apologists are not civilized people and in a good world would be removed from society.

8thling · 2017-10-18T01:05:56+00:00

When you think about circumcision for more than 5 seconds it's surreal in how fucked up it is. WE ARE CUTTING OFF PARTS OF BABIES BODIES. Circumcision is far and away the greatest evil in the western world, it's not even close (unless you believe that abortion is murder, but if you're that scientifically illiterate you're probably ok with circumcision). It's disgusting to me that women claim they are oppressed when we literally tolerate cutting off parts of baby boy's bodies. None of the bullshit feminists claim even come remotely close to circumcision, let alone the legitimate disadvantages women have in society.

leel007 · 2017-10-18T02:29:13+00:00

Why would a circumcised penis not work?

elebrin · 2017-10-18T02:21:32+00:00

Maybe I wish I wasn't circumcised, but there isn't a hell of a lot I can do about it without spending a lot of money on a medieval torture device stretching procedure.

Unfortunately it's mostly women who make the decision to circumcise or not, and they have no stake in that game and will pick whatever sounds good that their doctor suggests. Educating them about the whole issue is likely impossible.

BlockNotDo · 2017-10-17T21:14:55+00:00

Funny looking one on the left is the uncircumcised one, right?

Title	No, it doesn't "work just fine"
Author	PowerToAnnihilate
Upvotes	124
Comments	32
Date	October 17, 2017 8:49 PM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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