Study led by researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health finds boys circumcised just after birth did not have a higher risk of autism compared to uncircumcised boys
  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    why the fuck would it? fuck these cunts. Also, quit mutilating kids.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    386·
    3 days ago

    No but it is cruel and a gross violation of bodily autonomy that should have huge amounts of jail time attached.

    • maturelemontree@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Thank goodness my parents said they would rather have left that choice to me when I was old enough. As an adult, why the fuck would I get circumsized unless you have a specific reason to do it?

      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        I’m jealous that your parents cared enough to let you decide. I wish mine had done the same.

        As for why you would do it willingly I don’t know either.

        • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          I got the last laugh. I was cut as a newborn, but I still didn’t end up with the parts my parents wanted. They took a little snip. I went for the full origami of gender reassignment surgery. 🤣

        • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          A friend of mine did it for medical reasons. His foreskin was too tight to pull back, which made it really hard to clean, and I think there were some other problems associated with it as well.

          I’ve never heard about an adult getting circumcised as an adult for religious reasons, but I’m sure some people do it.

        • maturelemontree@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I’ve heard that a lot. I’ve even had someone approach me after taking a public shower before and try to strike up a conversation about my bits. Sorry about your bits, brother.

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    395·
    3 days ago

    OK but it is still a barbaric practice and I don’t see why we allow it. Just because it is culturally accepted does not make it OK.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    401·
    3 days ago

    Who… how could… what?

    … ah.

    “Parents have been concerned about this potential circumcision-autism connection, but hopefully these findings may help allay their fears,” says senior author Monica McGrath, research professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Epidemiology…

    Ah ok I understand now.

    “Parents”.

    Bigotry against autists is so extreme that idiot religious extremists will actually consider one of their more barbaric, senseless, cherished traditions as negotiable, relative to the utter ‘horror’ of their children potentially being autistic.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        One way or another, they just can’t help but to cut you down and fit you into one of their simple little boxes they understand.

    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      845·
      3 days ago

      Agree. I’m from Europe and I find it very weird how common it is in the US

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I’m from the US and didn’t circumcise my son. It’s really simple. Who doesn’t want more penis? I’d take more penis. Penis is all good. Why subtract penis?

        When my older brother had a son he DID circumcise him. When I asked why, he gave me this head shake as if to say “huh? what?” and all he said was “that’s just how they do it at the hospital we went to.”

        I mean labor and childbirth are a whirlwind so I don’t blame anyone for losing a detail or two. Unless that detail subtracts a part of my penis. Then we gone fight.

        • epicurean_toast@lemmus.orgEnglish
          13·
          2 days ago

          I have a hard time faulting people for following a doctor’s recommendation if that’s what was going on.

          • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            That’s overstating it. There wasn’t even a conversation about it let alone anything as strong as a doctor’s recommendation. More like a default hospital protocol. Which I’m sure you’d agree should be open to question.

      • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        531·
        3 days ago

        It’s SO common in the US that while growing up I felt ashamed and incredibly self concious of being uncircumsized in high school showers. Life’s so strange.

        • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          243·
          3 days ago

          Thankfully the millennial generation has started doing away with circumcising our children. Last time I checked, which was admittedly 10 years ago, the circumcision rates were closer to 50/50 in the US.

          Update: It’s dropped below 50%!

          “We reviewed over 1.5 million U.S. hospitalizations of male neonates, ages 0 to 28 days, during the period 2012 to 2022, and found that the overall prevalence of hospitalizations where a neonatal male circumcision was performed decreased significantly, from 54.1% to 49.3%,” says study co-senior author Aaron Tobian, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Decreases were observed across most patient and hospital subgroups, including whites — a group with traditionally high circumcision rates — where circumcisions dropped 5.3% over the decade studied.”

          https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2025/09/johns-hopkins-study-newborn-male-circumcision-rates-in-us-dropped-between-2012-and-2022

          • taj@lemmy.worldEnglish
            131·
            3 days ago

            My husband started out with the “he should look like me…” and then quickly came around after a bit of reading. The Adam Ruins Everything on circumcision is great!

          • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            122·
            3 days ago

            It’s good to know it’s moving toward not maiming kids. I’m afraid to ask about vaccination rates because my sister’s kids are of questionable status on that front, and my sister won’t talk about such things. Very alternative hippy type.

            • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              91·
              3 days ago

              I wish the stats were even better than they are now honestly. I think it’s a horrendous practice.

        • Canaconda@lemmy.caEnglish
          24·
          3 days ago

          It’s not really a thing outside the USA? At least not in Canada anymore. I’m one of a bunch of kids and about halfway through my siblings they stopped recommending it.

          Confused the hell out of 8 year old me tasked with giving my 3 year old brother a shower.

      • farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        The first time I saw an un-circumcised penis was in porn when I was in my early 20s, I think. What little sex ed we had in the rural US in the '80s and early '90s didn’t even have an image of one that wasn’t circumcised so far as I recall. I thought it was some kind of birth defect or something.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    838·
    3 days ago

    You’re against circumcision because you believe it causes autism.

    I’m against circumcision because I believe genitally mutilating non-consenting infants is an atrocity.

    We are not the same.

    • Sludge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Agree and all, but to add - I road bike and run ultra marathons. When doing super long distances, you’re gonna end up chafing a bit (probably). I would much rather my foreskin get the rub as opposed to THE SENSITIVE TIP OF MY DICK.

      You know what really hurts? Water hitting raw skin that’s been rubbed in shorts or a bike bib for 4+ hours.

      I’m sure it will have negative long term impacts to my ability to be stimulated.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, something a lot of people don’t realize is that circumcized dicks lose a lot of sensitivity due to the excessive friction they go endure throughout each day just by moving around normally.

        I read somewhere that intact dicks are basically a mucus membrane underneath the foreskin. That’s wild, my dick skin is more like the skin on the back of my hand. No wonder people are so obsessed with sex, it must feel so damn good for uncircumcised people. Something I’ll never experience. Damn religion.

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    901·
    3 days ago

    What kind of craziness would cause a person to think that it might?

      • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        3 days ago

        I would hazard a guess, which obviously I don’t know if this is what they’re really thinking or not, but I would guess that since there are behavioral overlaps between ASD and CPTSD, that somebody might have made the connection.

        That being said, there’s no evidence that circumcision gives people CPTSD on its own, at least none that I am aware of, and if somebody else knows more than I do, (which is quite easy to do), feel free to educate me.

      • Carighan Maconar@piefed.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Yeah but c’mon, no even halfway-functional adult that doesn’t need a constant “breathe in breathe out” soundtrack playing to explain breathing would suspect vaccines of causing autism. That’d be absurd, we all learn their basic workings in middle school or even earlier, they’re a very known concept.

    • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
      126·
      3 days ago

      I could maybe see how the pain and/or trauma of it could alter how the brain might develop, but even that’s a stretch…

    • amniotic druid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      3 days ago

      Genital mutiliation and child sexual abuse can have extreme consequences on mental development. It’s a (well-intentioned) case of bad cause-effect analysis.

  • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    What? Who are these people that were even linking these two things? I’m actually shocked I can still be surprised by stupidity.

    They should still stop doing it though.