Did & Do They Know?

[MJOLNIR]

The hospitals in America that allow this procedure. Are they aware of the heavy loss of innervated tissue and penile sensation, and resulting glans keratinization? If so, when did they figure this out? I was born in '89, so I'm trying to find out how messed up it was for me to get completely cut the way I did.

Do they know and are just hiding all these sexual downsides from the parents and only keep blabbering about lower STD risks, penile cancer and urinary tract infections, etc.? Heck, do they even mention the possibility of botches and deaths due to the practice?

I'm wondering, how does a country as developed and rational as America allow this to happen to unconsenting baby males? If parents gave permission to have them slice off their son's earlobes, tip of his nose, his tongue, eyelids, etc...do they go ahead and do that? I mean, why not? Wouldn't they be able to profit either way from the parents' money, and the pharmaceutical companies who can probably still make beauty products out of the flesh?

For the record I'd rather be stretching a sliced earlobe than my freaking dick skin.

MJOLNIR

[Element786]

As you get older you'll realize that humans are only rational in 10 to 20% of their actions and thoughts, if that. Most of human rationality is directed toward post hoc justifications of irrational actions. You see this a lot in religion and politics, and you see it in the circumcision "debate".

Ultimately science will give us the choice to be able to grow our foreskin back (hopefully within the next 20 years), and the old irrational people will die and fertilize the soil - a greater contribution to the planet than anything they did when they were alive.

[MJOLNIR]

^Sigworthy.

Seriously though, how messed up. I'm sure my parents would have never consented to it if they knew what circ. does later on sexually, how the "benefits" don't even apply to me (let alone are mentioned just for the sake of the practice continuing), how it has f*cked me up mentally, etc. It looks like a sue-worthy situation, if so many facts were hidden from them regarding it.

[MJOLNIR]

I read a recent article saying that physicians discuss the benefits as well as the "disadvantages", especially nowadays in the U.S.

Does anyone happen to know what are the mentioned "disadvantages" that the parents are made aware of prior to the procedure?

[MJOLNIR]

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