Turns out there’s a whole thing here that I just didn’t really know about.
I’m in Australia. I’m 43 years old, and cut. I have a 2 year old son who is not cut, and we just never seriously considered getting him cut as an infant.
It’s only in the last few minutes that I’ve learned that people are still doing this? Apparently the best stats we have are that in 2010 between 10 and 20 percent of infant males were circumcised. That’s down from 85% in the 1950s, so maybe call it 10 percent now.
I had honestly thought doctors just wouldn’t do it unless there was a medical reason. Apparently it’s still a thing. There’s an association of doctors who will perform circumcision, so you can look one up in your area.
It’s also interesting that it’s more prevalent in conservative areas of the US.
I think my thinking on it has been effected by a few conversations I’ve seen on reddit and similar. I never thought of my own circumcision as being somehow abusive, but I’ve seen that some other men really do. As a result of thinking about that I guess I just came to the realisation that removing part of someone else’s body for no reason other than my own preference is just weird and wrong.
Reading about it now it seems like the common excuse is that people say “well my dad was cut and I’m cut and I don’t want to have to explain to son-face why his dick looks different”. Of all the dumb things to say. “Yeah kid we removed part of your sex organ so it would look the same as my own deformed sex organ”. Imagine explaining to your kid that you accidentally cut your finger off so you were going to have to cut his finger off so he wouldn’t wonder why he has an extra finger. Of all the dumbassery.
Yes, even now.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/circumcision-rates-by-state
Turns out there’s a whole thing here that I just didn’t really know about.
I’m in Australia. I’m 43 years old, and cut. I have a 2 year old son who is not cut, and we just never seriously considered getting him cut as an infant.
It’s only in the last few minutes that I’ve learned that people are still doing this? Apparently the best stats we have are that in 2010 between 10 and 20 percent of infant males were circumcised. That’s down from 85% in the 1950s, so maybe call it 10 percent now.
I had honestly thought doctors just wouldn’t do it unless there was a medical reason. Apparently it’s still a thing. There’s an association of doctors who will perform circumcision, so you can look one up in your area.
It’s also interesting that it’s more prevalent in conservative areas of the US.
I think my thinking on it has been effected by a few conversations I’ve seen on reddit and similar. I never thought of my own circumcision as being somehow abusive, but I’ve seen that some other men really do. As a result of thinking about that I guess I just came to the realisation that removing part of someone else’s body for no reason other than my own preference is just weird and wrong.
Reading about it now it seems like the common excuse is that people say “well my dad was cut and I’m cut and I don’t want to have to explain to son-face why his dick looks different”. Of all the dumb things to say. “Yeah kid we removed part of your sex organ so it would look the same as my own deformed sex organ”. Imagine explaining to your kid that you accidentally cut your finger off so you were going to have to cut his finger off so he wouldn’t wonder why he has an extra finger. Of all the dumbassery.