UnderpantsWeevil, 1 year ago

I remember idiots on reddit swearing it lowered my sensitivity by a lot but if that were true…

Certainly possible, but also not even necessarily a bad thing.

I should note that there’s another big knock on benefit.

Circumcised men compared with uncircumcised men have also been shown in clinical trials to be less likely to acquire new infections with syphilis (by 42%), genital ulcer disease (by 48%), genital herpes (by 28% to 45%), and high-risk strains of human papillomavirus associated with cancer (by 24% to 47% percent)

Which, particularly back in the 60s-90s period, was a bfd given the stigma around contraception and other genital protection measures. Significantly less so now when condoms are so readily available. But even then…

It’s a non-issue but people have to be mad for something I guess (because there’s no other big reasons to be mad/s).

It does feel like people are looking for something to fixate on as a rabble-rousing issue that’s a-political-ish. But the loudest anti-circumcision advocates tend to have truly awful surrounding politics. It feels like a… trojan issue.