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Enclave posted...

Correcting literal visible birth defects like a cleft lip results in the recipient having a measurably improved quality of life, correcting crooked teeth not only results in the same but it can also help avoid potential (and far more likely than the very rare penis cancer) health impacts (especially regarding wisdom teeth).

Vaccines prevent spread of major communicable disease and helps protect people who are immune compromised who are unable to get vaccinated, again this is not comparable to the alleged and minor benefits around circumcision as rates of penis cancer and HIV are not wildly different between North America and Europe and thus circumcision is clearly not actually a very relevant factor in those.

Of course your more recent posts seem to suggest that you're on the side you're on not because you're actually informed on the subject at all but rather you're defensive about the fact that your parents had an unnecessary cosmetic procedure done on you when you were a baby and now you're trying to rationalise it, this seems apparent from the fact that you seem incredibly ignorant about the foreskin in general.

Cool pretending to be a psychologist you did there. Im not defensive about it at all; I legitimately am glad it was done and feel better off, personally. You can believe whatever you want, but its a story youre telling yourself.

Ive said multiple times I dont know much about the experience of having a foreskin, because I dont have one, and can only speak on what others have told me.

The only thing Ive said that may be objectively wrong that I didnt get from uncircumcised friend and women who have been with uncircumcised men was that the glans shouldnt be eternally moist; I was talking more about dampness, water, sweat, etc, but I was surprised to find uncircumcised penises actually secrete what is essentially mucus, which I presume is what the other guy meant. (Although that is less a function of the foreskin and more the glans, the foreskin does keep the mucus membrane from keratinizing, so in a roundabout way it keeps it moist, in terms of gross dick mucus.)

the incidence of HIV and STDS isnt wildly different between these two counties so clearly circumcising has no impact has been addressed MULTIPLE times already. That isnt how that works. You cant possibly draw that conclusion, many factors affect those rates. Europe has public health care, but by your logic, that has zero effect on std spread, despite the fact thats obviously not true.

Also, nobody has ever said it was a huge impact. Its a minor benefit.