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[merlechaotix]

The following was written when I was feeling sorry for myself, and generally acting like an idiot. I'm leaving it up so the next time I feel like that, I can read it and remember how stupid I can be sometimes.

Comments

[batgirl39]

Actually circumcision is done in most cases of a baby being born nowadays due to medical reasons. Now, this isn't a medical practice that must be done nor is it mandated to be done, but some of the reasons are interesting

[reverend_death]

Actually circumcision is done in most cases of a baby being born nowadays due to medical reasons. Now, this isn't a medical practice that must be done nor is it mandated to be done, but some of the reasons are interesting:

As early as 1971 and 1975 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) took a stand against the routine circumcision of newborns on the basis that there are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period. This position was reiterated in 1983 by the AAP, as well as by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in their joint publication Guidelines for Perinatal Care.

- A lower risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs). A circumcised infant boy has about a 1 in 1,000 chance of developing a UTI in the first year of life; an uncircumcised infant boy has about a 1 in 100 chance of developing a UTI in the first year of life.Numerous studies have been done on the risk of UTIs for circumcused and uncircumcised male children, including several large scale ones involving the US military.

Part 2

[reverend_death]

(Since it cut me off at 4,300 characters)

- Prevention of phimosis, a condition in uncircumcised males that makes foreskin retraction impossible.

In the last three decades, as the circumcision rate in North America has declined, the most common official recommendations and guidelines from medical societies, as well as infant care books written by experts, have emphasized that it is normal not to be able to retract an infant's foreskin fully and that it need not be done. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends gentle soap and water cleaning, but specifically recommends against forcible retraction. There is now some suspicion that forceful retraction that results in inflammation may actually contribute to pathological phimosis at an older age. Although the rate of surgical treatment of phimosis (usually circumcision) is falling, some pediatric urologists have argued that many physicians continue to have trouble distinguishing developmental non-retractility from pathological phimosis, and that phimosis is overdiagnosed.

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[tigressflowers]

I agree that circumcising babies is very much wrong.

And yes while it *is* more 'sanitary' to circumcise boys, I feel it's mostly that parents dont want to deal w/ the extra cleaning, and teaching him to clean himself better

[tigressflowers]

parents are lazy...