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Why doesn't medicine/science encourage people with Body Integrity Identity Disorder


have surgery to remove the limbs they don't want? BID is "a disorder characterized by a desire to be disabled or having discomfort with being able-bodied beginning in early adolescence and resulting in harmful consequences." If trans people are encouraged to take hormones and have things add/removed from their bodies, wouldn't this be the same type of thing?

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Please! What bullshit. Have you just run out of disabled people to dump out of their wheelchairs, or run over elderly folks in the crosswalk?

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Why do we currently allow parents to have a part of their sons penis cut off? We do ban genital mutilation of young girls, but what not apply the same logic to boys? What do little girls get special protection? Consider that circumcision isn't 100% safe, each year 100 baby boys in the US die from it, and countless others have complication often requiring corrective surgery and in some instances removal of the penis completely.

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Because uncircumcised penises are gross?

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So your preference is for a circumcised penis then? Do they taste better?

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Maybe they are. But a man should have the basic human right to decide for themself if they want to be circumcised. Otherwise why allow girls to have flat chests, big titties are best so by your logic we should force flat chested girls to get double D implants.

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"By your logic..."

No. You don't give GIRLS implants because implants are aesthetic increased to aim the sex appeal of someone. GIRLS and sex appeal have no business being in the same discussion.

Whereas, circumcision is generally more about health:

https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/guide/circumcision
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/585

You anti-circumcision people are fucking WEIRD. Talk about dying on the hill of a non-issue. You people have ridiculously strong feelings about this nonsense.

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"You anti-circumcision people are fucking WEIRD"

Yes it's the people who DON'T want to needlessly cut infant's genitals who are weird, not you fine upstanding people who defend infant genital mutilation.

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"gEniTal mUtIlatIoN"

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Nice counter tard

"aNTi cIrcumCisIOn"

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Your first response was to ask if I like how penises taste. Your second respond was to ignore the MEDICAL information I posted. Spare me your indignation, you fucking phony.

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Did you take time out of your busy schedule just for me? Your schedule of making sure boy's foreskins can keep getting sliced off for Oprah to sell in her face creams? You just can't get enough sliced off foreskin can you!

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Why so many people are so casual about the mutilation of a baby I don't know. You think it's a non issue? What about "my body, my choice"? An adult has no right to make that decision for a baby boy except for very specific medical situations. For it to be continued to be done as standard for practically zero benefit because it used to be done for religious reasons is simply insane.

If you can't keep your dick clean without resorting to circumcision, there's something very wrong with your hygiene regime.

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Adults make EVERY decision for babies, you doofus.

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Please learn to read. I'm saying they have no right to make the decision to circumcise. Moron.

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Do you even read what you link to? Your WebMD article states the following: "...benefits are not great enough to recommend universal newborn circumcision." So basically it says there is no reason to do it.

And if you had bothered to read entirety of the other link you'ld have found little tid bits, like circumcision reduced the girth and length of the penis, that it increase the probability of developing erectile dysfunction and other little things that most men wouldn't seek out.

One can only guess that you're one of the men that has a small non-functional penis from the mutilation your parents asked a doctor to perform and now you simply want every other male born to suffer your same fate. Real men have intact dicks not little chopped off numbs that couldn't tickle a virgin if you tried.

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"Real men have intact dicks not little chopped off numbs that couldn't tickle a virgin if you tried."

So this is really all about you and your penis, right? Are you just mad society doesn't like uncircumcised wangs? Is that what it is? That's really why you are sooooo mad isn't it?

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Your transference of your own anger and insecurity is strong oh tiny dick. Go find a magnifying glass and you can pretend to be normal.

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I'm going to assume he's the typical cut male who is in denial that something wrong was ever done to him. I understand, it's a defense mechanism. I honestly pity people like that.

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