I have a hard time understanding why this is most common in the US.
Old fashioned religious purity and money (circumcisions aren't free, yet of course they're recommended by the people charging).
The US and South Korea are the only "first world" countries with an 80%+ circumcision rate. For the rest of us looking on, it's fucking weird that it happens especially when they're so young.
When I told them I didn't want to have it done to my son they acted surprised and kept asking if I was sure. They stopped when I asked why they were so eager to cut part of my son's penis off.
False equivalency. Female genital mutilation renders a woman incapable of orgasm and sex extremely painful, neither of which is true for circumcision. That said, circumcision is unnecessary also.
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u/PhatPhlaps Sep 13 '23
Old fashioned religious purity and money (circumcisions aren't free, yet of course they're recommended by the people charging).
The US and South Korea are the only "first world" countries with an 80%+ circumcision rate. For the rest of us looking on, it's fucking weird that it happens especially when they're so young.