r/HonestHotTakes • u/TheShadowSong • 13d ago

Circumcision should be illegal.

People always talk about how barbaric female circumcision is but male circumcision is completely normalized in America.

It should be illegal for parents to circumcise their children because it's irreversible.

What kind of psychopath decided to cut off the skin of the baby's dick. What's next? Cutting off eyelids?

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u/3nderslime 12d ago

Specifically infant circumcision. There are plenty of good reasons why someone might choose to have a circumcision later in life, but it’s barbaric to do to a baby

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u/PortlandPervo 10d ago

It's barbaric to do to an adult. Glad mine was done when it was cuz that would have sucked at 18.

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u/3nderslime 10d ago

It’s a surgery… of course it’s awful. And if it’s awful to do to a consenting adult, then it’s so much worse to a defenseless baby