Why isn't under 18 Circumcision illegal already?

New-Distribution6033 · 2025-07-24T12:36:39+00:00

It is... For girls.

BaroloBaron · 2025-07-24T12:53:40+00:00

For historical reasons, it's not recognized as mutilation yet.

danielm316 · 2025-07-24T13:33:51+00:00

It should be. Boys deserve as much protection as girls do.

No_Conflict9034 · 2025-07-24T13:02:02+00:00

Someone needs to make a full post countering all the arguments for legalizing circumcision. And all arguments that are not necessarily defending it but are trivializing it and claiming it’s a non issue.

2025-07-24T13:59:11+00:00

There is this ped0 subreddit called r / circumstraint . This ped0 sub basically fetishizes baby boys getting their genital mutilated . This sub is not ban yet , it's only private

https://chng.it/VcZ4VY467p pls sign this petition to ban this ped0 file subreddit r/ circumstraint.

WeEatBabies · 2025-07-24T13:05:45+00:00

Because feminists need their beauty cream made from babies' foreskin so they can bag a millionaire easier : https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2015/04/14/baby-foreskin-facial-boston-hydrafacial/

It doesn't matter how many male babies they kill, as long as they don't have to work it's all worth it. Also, it reduces the amount of male voters thus guaranteeing politicians will always prioritize women!

So the answer as to why males are being killed and mutilated is always : feminism!

cheffy3369 · 2025-07-24T15:11:00+00:00

The answer is because a lot of people still want it done on their kids and that also includes a lot of men.

dachshundmom_KCMO · 2025-07-25T08:41:31+00:00

Because men don't have rights like women do We are only viewed as a resource with no inherent value My body my choice only matters if ur chromosomes are xx

OkExtreme3195 · 2025-07-24T13:52:43+00:00

Because most people are not against them .

If enough people start protesting against circumcision of boys under 18 then this will become illegal . And suing the doctors who promote circumcision by lying about non existent" health benefits" , can also stop the doctors from doing circumcision on boys below 18 .

Even some of the comments under this post are promoting circumcision. Unfortunately, most people probably are like this , they support circumcision.

Cool-Breezy-Rain · 2025-07-25T17:53:19+00:00

The answer is actually very simple. There's an active Jewish/Zionist campaign to keep circumcision numbers high.

They use the medical industry to paint the foreskin as dirty, useless, and problematic. The medical industry happily obliges because they profit beautifully from it. So, they use high-pressure sales tactics to bully parents into mutilating their baby.

SidewaysGiraffe · 2025-07-24T14:34:06+00:00

Inertia, mostly. And money- it's just as easy (and much cheaper) to bribe a doctor than to bribe a politician, and between billing governments and reselling harvested tissue to cosmetics companies, there's a fortune to be made in exploiting mutilated babies.

Any great belief in medicine being a hard science based on empirical evidence and sound reasoning, immune to corruption, should've died in 2020.

MeasurementNice295 · 2025-07-24T14:34:11+00:00

Let's just say that there is a religious sect of very few people that has gathered lot of power everywhere and that, coincidentally, have made genital mutilation of boys a core part of their "distinguished" identity, so it's very hard to even bring that up as a serious issue at all.

lostatlifecoach · 2025-07-24T19:53:57+00:00

Add the word elective and you've got my vote. I really hate to tie a doctor's hands if they think it's medically necessary and some men do need them. Granted the number is very low but I really don't want some 16 year old suffering.

LateralThinker13 · 2025-07-26T16:03:51+00:00

Because old women need their face creams (made from the removed material)

Former-Dragonfly2226 · 2025-07-24T15:36:48+00:00

Religion, sadly

dusray · 2025-07-24T15:53:18+00:00

I'd just like to say I'm in the Southeast US, and my first son will be born within a month. I was SO relieved that during the birth plan meeting with the hospital the nurses response to me saying that we are "extremely anti circumcision" was "that's good, the OBs hate doing it and will only do it if the if the parents insist". So I'm glad to see, at least at the hospital we are using, not mutilating baby boys is the default.

Vaudeville_Clown · 2025-07-24T14:28:44+00:00

Truthfully, because we need to pick a fight with two religions who both contain very fanatical and dangerous people. Everyone is too afraid.

If/when this happens, it'll be about dominance and state asserting itself over religion in an "obey or gtfo" kind of fashion. Religion will finally be subordinate to the secular society then.

I'm on team western/Christianity in the most chauvinist of ways, so I say BRING IT!

Everyone else seems to be too busy kissing ass and defering to these two religions, who arguably shouldn't even have a voice in most western countries, and none of the influence.

2137gangsterr · 2025-07-24T20:39:47+00:00

(((why)))

brosefcurlin · 2025-07-31T02:20:14+00:00

Ok I thought this sub might be normal but nvm

Direct_Practice_7105 · 2025-07-24T12:40:42+00:00

Religion?

elebrin · 2025-07-24T15:42:43+00:00

I think there are a few reasons:

First, two of the larger religious subcultures in the US require infant circumcision (Judaism and Islam). I'm not going to criticize either on this, but its status a major cultural ritual for those religions is well established.

Second, while it has never has had any particular health benefits, for a long time many people including those in the medical community believed that it did. There is a long history of circumcision of infant boys being considered virtually necessary. Women are also the primary decision makers with regards to what happens to their infant children and they are likely to defer to their doctors... who of course could bill for the procedure.

Finally, a very high percentage of men in the US are circumcised. To call circumcision as a crime would mean they are a victim, and there has always been a lot of pressure on men to see everything that happens in their own lives as their own doing. They do not want to see themselves as a victim. There are a ton of men out there who will take metaphorical blow after blow on the chin and will come back with "it was all my own fault" because that's what our mothers and female teachers taught us to do. After all, if we are victims during the time that they were responsible for our well being, that makes them responsible for what happened to us and they absolutely can't have that.

The reality is that if you are circumcised, you are the victim of a crime, and the person who victimized you or failed to protect you during the first hours of your life was probably your own mother.

xxTheMagicBulleT · 2025-07-25T11:07:22+00:00

Cause you can't criticize religion. We have to be accepting of other culture and religions.

What i find it bullshit. Why can't you just have rules and laws for your country that is upholding your morals and values.

Why should immigrants that went from a country. Suddenly make the new country they life in Suddenly adjust the rules and laws to be the same as from there country they choose to leave.

But yeah any way even do I don't agree with it thats the reason basically. Cultural and religious mixture of society pushed that that HAS to be acceptable. Sadly cause I have also been circumcised and I basically have to sit down to pee cause I pee in the way a hose does if you put your finger over it. Its like a weird fan spray. What makes I'm unable to not wet the whole bathroom. What makes siting down the only option in most cases.

So yeah

Solid_Temporary8754 · 2025-07-24T13:54:07+00:00

I would gladly have done that before 18 but my parents were dumb

I had short fimosis, i had to wait 18 for the operation and missed a lot of sex honestly

kmikek · 2025-07-24T14:05:40+00:00

In general i want to live in a nation where medical procedures and medicine are governed by medical experts and not the most persuasive politician. Making medicine or operations illegal can be short sighted and harmful in the broader scope. Mostly i dont want an ignorant government compelling me to do my job the wrong way.

Full_Power1 · 2025-07-24T22:22:15+00:00

You are begging the question, why should it be? Secondly your argument is actually counter intuitive and seems deeply ignorant, when done in adolescent and adulthood it's scientifically worse not the other way around, it's More painful, longer recovery, higher complication rate Requires abstinence from sex for weeks, More expensive and risk-prone.

Tam_A_Shi · 2025-07-24T13:19:12+00:00

Because sometimes it’s medically necessary due to tight foreskin which can: inhibit penis growth during puberty, trap debris beneath foreskin leading to infection etc or could restrict blood flow to the penis causing damage.

KissesUwU · 2025-07-24T15:48:44+00:00

As someone circumcized because it doesn't really matter all that much. It's a historical practice with literally no negative effect. So no one is particularly mad at circumcision. Except guys here.

Still_Frosting_6480 · 2025-07-25T00:37:59+00:00

Sometimes there is medical need.

Title	Why isn't under 18 Circumcision illegal already?
Author	realassx
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Date	July 24, 2025 12:29 PM UTC (11 months ago)
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