I feel like the prevalence of circumcision in this age has a lot more to do with cultural inertia than any sort of religious doctrine or political leanings.

For a lot of people, "it's just what you do"

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe society could consider that cutting off part of babies’ dicks who can’t give consent isn’t necessarily something we should “just do”?

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

100%

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

that's how much dick we should be able to keep after being born.

[–] Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yea, my wife and I decided to have our son circumcised. He's 14 now. If I had a chance to re-do it, i would choose to not have it done. At the time it just seemed like the normal thing to do. Sorry son. 😕

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's really mostly an American anti-masturbation thing.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I think it's mostly because "that's what happened to me" and "what about their future spouse"