• @[email protected]
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    -210 months ago

    But, medically speaking, is circumcision harmful?

    Seems to be among the hysterical crowd who’s not actually familiar with the medical opinions on this topic. Not surprising.

    Oddly, I happen to know a plastic surgeon who performs the procedure in my city, he’s apparently the go to guy for it so when given the opportunity to talk about children’s genitals I just had to take it up with him…he told me, to my surprise that the vast bulk of his patients now are recently immigrated from Africa. Wasn’t expecting that, was more just curious how much bullshit he got on a day to day basis given his specialty.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      110 months ago

      last i checked according to the ole reliable wikipedia, circumcision is still pretty big in other parts of the world, notably africa iirc.

      Society is weird.

      • @[email protected]
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        -110 months ago

        It’s odd to me, and the specialist that the majority of his work now involves African people rather than the clientele he’s been working with for the past 30ish years of his practice was the point he emphasized.

        • KillingTimeItself
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          110 months ago

          yeah, it’s a fair observation, i just felt the need to mention that for some reason. Often times weird things have fairly simple explanations.