Male circumcision leads to a bad sex life
sciencenordic.com
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There is a risk of causing shame to men who are circumcised with statements like "Male circumcision leads to a bad sex life".
It is great that there seems to be an emerging dialogue where we question whether we should be circumcising without medical necessity, and challenge long-held assumptions with science. But it is still a highly personal issue, and a degree of sensitivity in the language would go a long way.
I don't know, am I overreacting here?
Cows being worshipped and protected from being killed for meat in Hinduism might have been a reaction to famines where cows could eat grass, weeds, plants that humans cannot eat and provide valuable protein to people in the form of milk for a long time vs. being instantly killed for meat. Which also explains why a significant fraction of Hindus are non-vegetarians but only eat chicken, fish and some goat/lamb, since those are not normal sources of milk.
On similar lines, I wonder if circumcision was thought to have some utility in those times before it turned into a religious edict. May be to reduce pleasure to decrease teen pregnancies which put a strain on families to raise a baby, or maybe slow down the spread of some widespread venereal disease.
Someone loved dropping that line in a study about circumcision.
Looks like they try to control for a lot of other factors, but I feel a bit weird about an article studying circumcision but not featuring those circumcised for the predominant reason that men are circumcised worldwide.
A different way to frame this would be "men who were circumcised specifically for medical reasons tend to have bad sex lives" which imo is a lot less surprising?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision
[1] https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/80/2/215
[2] See page 1: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43749/97892...