Would you support a secular ban on circumcision?

I realize some religious Jews and Muslims do it. That is why I said secular ban, not religious ban. But for the life of me, I cannot think of a way to appease the Jews and Muslims if a circumcision ban scenario was enacted. Maybe the Jews can still be made happy, content, and satisfied if tons of money, military aid, and medical aid is given to Israel, and more organized religious tours to Israel, and conversations with the anti-circumcision Jews who promote Brit Shalom (Covenant of Peace without a circumcision) instead of Brit Milah (Circumcision). Basically, promote the Brit Shalom crowd within the Jewish community, and help raise them up so that their beliefs mostly take over the Jewish community about circumcision. That way it is not anti-Semitic.

Cannot think of a way to appease the Muslims, unless Quranic verses that are anti-circumcision are spread on public billboards all across the country.

As for the women who prefer circumcised men, well, they are just going to have to get used to playing with guys with extra skin. A woman's sexual preference about circumcision is irrelevant. If I were to say I prefer circumcised vaginas to a girl like one of my friends told me yesterday that he prefers circumcised girls, I'd be shunned by society. Even I got freaked out when he told me he likes circumcised clitoral hoods. If I were to make fun of a girl for her vagina status or how it looks, it is technically sexual harassment. It goes the same way with males. So a sexual preference preferring circumcised men is irrelevant, and shouldn't be the basis for a circumcision ban. Sexual preferences in this case are to be entirely ignored.
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Edit: The ban is for infant circumcision. Not voluntary adult 18+ circumcision.
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Most Helpful Guys

  • I think there are ways to reduce routine infant circumcision that don't step on religious traditions, such as not covering it in medicaid and banning private insurance from covering it. In fact, that is exactly how the procedure fell out of favor in Great Britain - when the NHS was formed, the procedure wasn't covered, and it quickly fell out of the norm. The same has happened to a certain extent in Canada and Australia.

  • Yeah i would. If women have the right to her body her choice.. men should have that same right.

Most Helpful Girls

  • Yes I think it should be banned. It's never right to give a baby a unnecessary surgery. If adults want to do it then yeah cool let them do it but for babies that is just wrong and disgusting like leave their baby dicks alone. They are born with foreskins for a reason

  • Circumcision should be banned except for the extremely rare case of infection.

    • I have phimosis

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  • Enjoy your smegma! :D

    • Me? I'm circumcised. I ask this, because it is very personal to me, because my circumcision has impacted me in a very negative way. I feel like I was violated because I did not have a choice in the matter. I should at least be given an option! What if I do not want to be circumcised? I don't want to be circumcised damn it! Why the fuck is it up to the parents to circumcise? And not the boy when he turns 18? Why should someone else have the legal right to carve their sexual preference into MY penis? A cosmetic procedure proven to not have ANY medical benefits. In all countries that have high circumcision rates, the STD, and UTI, infection, and penile cancer rate in those countries are much higher than in countries where they DON'T circumcise!

  • Good luck in changing the world, you're going to need it!

  • On male circumcision, no. I am and have no complaints. My dick works just fine.
    On clitoridectomy? Yes.

  • No.

    I wish I’d been done as an infant. I almost was. It’s much more of a hassle and more expensive to have done as an adult though I did.

    • Uh huh, and you want to know how much it cost to UNDO a circumcision, or REVERSE a circumcision? Up to 50,000 dollars, and it does not even restore or bring back everything that was cut off from a circumcision. All it does is just restore the "appearance" of being uncircumcised. Getting circumcised is FAR cheaper than reversing the procedure and becoming uncircumcised again. If you decide to restore your foreskin manually instead of surgery, it is much cheaper around 70-100 dollars, but it takes YEARS to stretch a remnant foreskin to become uncircumcised. Do you know how much my circumcision has negatively impacted me emotionally, and mentally to the point to where I am OBSESSED with getting my foreskin back no matter the costs all because I had this procedure done to me against my will as a baby, and I was not given a choice? You don't want to know.

    • I know that you've made it an obsession, but there's an extremely high probability that being circumcised is not what's wrong in your life. I hope you're able to stretch if that's what you want, I imagine you've spoken to … I think his name is matchrestore on here? He's done it successfully. It took more than 'years' for me to arrange an adult circ, both take time. I hope you're happy with your results. I'm happier circumcised, and having experienced both I wish i'd tried harder to get it done even sooner.

    • There is no way, it takes that long to schedule a circumcision. Just call a local urology clinic. That is how you get it done. But for me? Someone who does not want to remain circumcised? What do they tell me if I call a local clinic (Prior to Covid 19)? "We don't know anything about that. Our research department does not know anything about foreskin restoration, or a surgery to reverse a circumcision. Why do you even want to do that?" That is exactly what they say. Admit it or not, you have MORE autonomy with your penis, than I do. What pisses me off is there are men in the world who don't appreciate what they are naturally born with, and feel a strong need to cut parts of it off to "fit in" with other men in the locker room at school, gym, beach, or work place, or they are told to do it by their girlfriends who don't know anything about the foreskin, and its functions, and they have the audacity to say that the foreskin is "nasty." But all hell breaks loose if a guy tells a woman her clitoris or labia is "nasty" or that her pussy stinks. I am not going to get bullied around, and pressured by women on what to do with my penis. I don't care if every woman in America hates uncircumcised penises, or the foreskin, I am still getting my foreskin back, and becoming uncircumcised.

  • As far as I'm concerned it is a personal choice...

    • True, but it actually easier and less painful , when they are very young. Originally it was a religious requirement, as it is these days its not needed..

  • What about if it's for medical reasons? Mine was done when i was a kid when they were doing some surgery

    • Medical reasons like: "Sorry sir, we did everything we can, nothing has worked, all options left are circumcision, or amputation of the penis." Circumcision is a last resort, and only a last resort, and if circumcision does not fix whatever problem you have at that point, you will have to get the penis amputated anyway.

  • no need to ban its optional.. find a slightly more worthy cause to support

  • Ban, no. Just forbid it before 18. Then, if the guy still want to do it, he's free to choose to do it by himself.
    Circumcising a kid is nothing more than sexual mutilation.

  • it always surprises me how upset some guys are about circumcision, and its only guys who haven't been that seem to care. so no I don't support the ban, I don't support any kind of ban based of the theories of a bunch of whinny assholes who are in the majority who think they know what's best for everyone else.

    • I am guessing you did not see my reply to the other guy that teased me about smegma? Yes, a lot of anti-circumcision activists are intact, or uncircumcised, but many of them, myself included are circumcised. I am against circumcision because it happened to ME against my consent. This bullshit bronze age ritual happened to me. In all honestly, if I was left intact, I probably wouldn't care about circumcision as much, but hey, this is just me, and me wasting time speculating about what I might think, or be like in an alternate parallel timeline is a waste of time, and I do not speak for all anti-circumcision activists. What I do know, based off of three years of research, is that circumcision is medical fraud, and I want my foreskin back. You personally, might not have a problem with your penis. You could be circumcised for all I know, and may prefer it, or simply don't care either way if you were left uncircumcised. I do not have a problem with people who voluntarily get themselves circumcised. I probably did not word my OP correctly. This ban is meant to be for newborns getting circumcised. Not 18+ year olds.

  • Yes I would. I would support a ban on all forms of child abuse.

  • I would be in full support of that ban.

  • I would not support your concepts. I would oppose your plans. The fact that you love your foreskin, is only your opinion and should not be forced onto anybody else. Why does everybody need to comply with your way of thinking? To your cultural standards? The world does not need another war, well, maybe your country needs a boost to its economy by causing destruction somewhere in the world.

    • And forcing your belief on a kid that can't choose is fine, maybe?

    • I don't have a foreskin... It was TAKEN from me at birth! Plus, I am talking about a ban for INFANT CIRCUMCISION. Not adult circumcision! Let the adult decide what he wants to do with his body! The baby or minor, cannot decide!

    • Everyone should be able to decide. So make it so that the boy has to be 18 or older before he can legally get circumcised. If he wants to become circumcised then, let him. But don't take that choice away from him by circumcising him as a baby

  • Do you have a problem with religions?

    • No. I am actually a very devout Christian myself.

    • So... What?

  • Hell no. Just be concerned about your own life instead of wanting to interfere with anyone else.

    Micro managing people to that amount is fascist.