So I was circumcised as a baby and I personally don't mind that my parents did that. BUT isn't it similar to giving children hormone blockers (obviously not as extreme, but the principle). To my understanding the surgery is purely cosmetic and causes the nerve endings to be destroyed making sex less pleasurable. Do you guys support parents circumcising their children? Is it ethically wrong to make that decision for a child?
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Among febrile male infants less than 3 months of age, 2.4% (CI: 1.4-3.5) of circumcised males and 20.1% (CI: 16.8-23.4) of uncircumcised males had a UT
O wow, that actually is a huge difference.
UTIs are almost never serious, and lots of kids get them when they're older too, due to dehydration... whether circumcised or not. I almost think telling people about "infections" when they're talking about UTIs for extremely young infants is close to a lie. It's not technically a lie, but it gives them impression of being something much more serious than it actually is.