• MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    While I whole heartedly disagree with the practice of circumsizing babies. (babies can’t consent therfore an unnecessary procedure is just flat out unethical) It’s not really true to say science shows that the foreskin is erogenous or even that circumcision affects sexual pleasure.

    There is a bit of conflicting data out there so there is still some debate over the fact but right now the data leans heavily toward there being little to no adverse affects on sexual pleasure. And in fact some anecdotal evidence actually seems to show that the opposite may be true; that circumsized penises may actually be more sensitive to sexual stimuli.

    Again though, I can’t stress enough how much I believe circumsicion is wrong.

    Source

    Edit: hey guys. Coming back to this and uh, have learned some things. I’d like to retract this statement pretty please. Please forgive me.

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      5 months ago

      The studies around this are very often heavily biased.

      The main reason it was pushed in the states in the first place was because of an anti-masturbatory craze.

      Growing up (like 25 years ago) it was a bit weird how lotion was so strongly shorthand for masturbation in American TV and movies. Didn’t really get it until I learned a lot of circumcised guys prefer or even require lotion for masturbation.

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      4 months ago

      You’ve gotta be batshit insane to deny such an obvious fact. You gonna show me a study that says the sky may or may not be blue next?

      • iaMLoWiQ@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        The sky isn’t blue, it just appears to be blue because of space.

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          Like how we don’t say that blue glass is blue because it’s really just the light that’s blue?

          Appearing blue when looked at is what it means for something to be blue.

          If you’re gonna be that type of pedantic, just jump straight to “nothing has color but light”.

          • iaMLoWiQ@lemmy.ca
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            4 months ago

            Sounds to me that lemmings never go outside and converse with people. Damn people here are pedantic as a motherfucker. The only joke you know is the one staring back at you in the mirror.

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      4 months ago

      Brian Morris is a sadistic fundamentalist Christian creep and a fraud

      There’s also this comment that goes into it well

      He was also an advocate for female circumcision (which is illegal in most of the non-muslim world and is mostly used as a mechanism to prevent women from having sex or to remove the pleasure from sex, it’s a very cruel act)

      In the same thread you can find this (the link doesn’t work anymore though)

      Another person already wrote about the academic bias that Brian Morris has, and how he’s trying to tilt the body of research to support circumcision. It’s also important to note that Brian Morris has a circumcision fetish, he gets sexual pleasure from seeing people getting circumcised and he is a member of the Gilgal Society, a circ fetish group. His name has been included in Gilgal pamphlets and in some of his early research papers he thanked the Gilgals for providing information and support.

      You can verify some of the information I wrote on this page https://www.circumstitions.com/morris.html

      I recently found a sub called r/DebunkingIntactivism (a “pro-circumcision” sub) and it’s… it’s fucking nutters. The people there talk like they’ve completely lost their minds. It’s basically where a bunch of insecure circumcised dudes go to fume over other people not being mutilated, and make “slurs” for them and stuff. Anyways the few weirdos that are active in that sub love to cite that guy and only that guy a lot.

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        4 months ago

        Yeaaah. Seems I’ve unintentionally sited some weird fucking guy. That’ll teach me to not look into the writers of a study before I post about it. Fucking yikes…

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        5 months ago

        I mean. I provided an actual source for my statement with aggregated data supporting my point. You, however, have not.

        Sounds like you need to be educated.

        And also the frenulum is not the foreskin.

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          And also the frenulum is not the foreskin.

          While the other user hasn’t explained why it is relevant, they are correct in that it is relevant. This is because circumcision usually removes the frenulum, or at least a large chunk of it. And it’s downright criminal because the frenulum is very sensitive. What little left I have is the most sensitive part of mine.

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          5 months ago

          Propaganda and bad faith. Get out of here with your pseudoscience

          Brian Morris is a proven fraud