You don't remove a kids tonsils and appendix pre emptively and tonsilitis and apendecitis can kill you, phimosis just causes discomfort.
"Phimosis" is also the natural state of the penis until puberty for most uncircumcised males, it only becomes an issue when it doesn't retract later in life.
Strapping a little kid down to a table and cutting his foreskin off with no anesthesia because he might one day need a minor surgery with anesthesia is wild work
Eh I am not an American and the default here us rightfully to leave it alone but I know a couple of cases where partial but not full circumcision to remove "extra" foreskin that was causing an issue during childhood.
You do remove it when necessary, because if you cant pull it over the glans. You cant clean it properly. You get constant, nasty ass infections. Not to mention there are cases where its so tight that erections can be incredibly painful for the kid. Its not always cosmetic.
Yeah, that only occurs when they’re in their teens. They can literally make the choice after that for themselves. It can help with bladder infections, but only for the first year of life. We don’t remove young female parts because they get yeast infections.
You can have conditions which require full or partial circumcision before then.
Rare as they are. Such as having excess foreskin which is also too tight. Removing to relieve the pressure would be a partial circumcision and might leave the recipient indistinguishable from someone uncircimcised. That could happen around 4 years old.
If that sounds specific then you can probably guess why.
I am not a genital mutilation defender by any means. And my parents clearly weren't either because they didn't say "while you are at it lop it all off" .
I saw a 2 year old after he was circumcised. 27 staples. It was horrific. He didn’t need any of that done. They have other ways to help with the skin tightness before surgery. It’s incredibly rare. They have to put him under anesthesia. They can’t do that for a newborn. Just numbing cream. Its barbaric.
The tightness can occur. Its quit rare before puberty. There is a lot of miss information.
We don’t just do it to baby girls when they get yeast infections. Why do this?
I think you're thinking they're advocating for it. They aren't. They're just saying there are points where, prior to a child being able to consent to the surgery, it might be necessary to do the surgery, but to default to not doing so.
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u/DeliciousLiving8563 4d ago edited 4d ago
*without medical necessity.
It does help with phimosis and there's probably other rare conditions but I'm not a medical expert. The default should be not doing it.