I am also unsettled by organizations like the CDC proposing to advocate for circumcision for medical reasons. It is almost as if the mentality is: well safer sex is harder and so let's just do this preemptively so we don't have to bother. The science on the benefits of circumcision is poor at best. Preemptive mastectomies would be asinine for similar reasons.
It is immoral and unjust to impose it upon children and this is even without consideration of the number of botched circumcisions. Sexual health is touchy subject, that needs to change. Cutting off foreskin is a horrible appeal to tradition and thus a much easier sell than acknowledging the sexuality and agency of people.
And *then* (But wait there's more!) even if the science was tight on HIV transmission (AND it warranted such a measure-- I don't think even then it does), the data does not have anything to positive for men-who-have-sex-with-men.
Let's recap: You want to advocate for cutting the dicks of every man child for medical reasons that are shoddy and speculative at best even though there are problems with the procedure and madcap mishaps occur and that it will not actually work at all for a small percentage of those boys?
Sorry I got a bit ranty, but this is a sore point for me even in foreskin-friendlier Canukistan.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Thank-you for posting this.
Date: 2009-Dec-15, Tuesday 10:54 pm (UTC)It is immoral and unjust to impose it upon children and this is even without consideration of the number of botched circumcisions. Sexual health is touchy subject, that needs to change. Cutting off foreskin is a horrible appeal to tradition and thus a much easier sell than acknowledging the sexuality and agency of people.
And *then* (But wait there's more!) even if the science was tight on HIV transmission (AND it warranted such a measure-- I don't think even then it does), the data does not have anything to positive for men-who-have-sex-with-men.
Let's recap: You want to advocate for cutting the dicks of every man child for medical reasons that are shoddy and speculative at best even though there are problems with the procedure and madcap mishaps occur and that it will not actually work at all for a small percentage of those boys?
Sorry I got a bit ranty, but this is a sore point for me even in foreskin-friendlier Canukistan.