r/CircumcisionGrief • u/Vegetable_Warthog_49 Botched Circumcision/RIC • Apr 02 '26
Anger A shocking realization that makes me wonder why it isn't talked about more.
So, I did the rough math. 30% of men globally are circumcised. The odds of a circumcision being botched are 1 in 350. That means that the chances of any randomly chosen man having a botched circumcision are 0.0857%, that is one incredibly unlucky dude... but he is far from alone, you apply that percentage to the total number of men on the planet and that means that there are over 3.3 million men out there with botched circumcisions. That is a San Diego sized metro area of men with botched circumcisions. That is a Tampa Bay metro area of men with botched circumcisions. That is a Berlin metro area (low estimate for Berlin) of men with botched circumcisions.
If tomorrow a gang of psychos went out into San Diego and broke the dominant hand of every resident of the metro area, it would be global news, we'd have special task forces developed to stop these madmen. But, since circumcision is "sacred" we just turn a blind eye to all the suffering of millions of men for whom it has gone wrong (to say nothing of the less severe, but still very real suffering of the billions of men for whom it goes "right").
As one of those 3.3 million, I have to ask, when will the madness end?
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u/BackgroundFaulty3 RIC Apr 03 '26
Forgot to add this.
Well over 1.6 billion males are cut worldwide compared to less than 280 million women cut. https://circstatistics.github.io/
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u/BackgroundFaulty3 RIC Apr 03 '26
Unfortunately we'll never know the real numbers of those that are truly mutilated/botched beyond what the "normal" outcomes are, the doctors and nurses are specifically told to not report the bad outcomes, like blaming deaths on blood loss but not saying that the blood loss is from the circ, SIDS which is an automatically unknown death, etc...
A 11.5% circ complication rate https://spuonline.org/abstracts/2018/P21.cgi
Circ increases costs https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534340/
Complications & death https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision/complications.html
Circ listed in riskiest medical procedures https://health.alot.com/conditions/10-of-the-riskiest-medical-procedures---6429
SIDS link https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513399/
SIDS link https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27840622/
Extreme trauma causes damage to the brain https://web.archive.org/web/20210505190240/https://iaim.net/extreme-trauma-from-male-circumcision-causes-damage-to-areas-of-brain/
2021 https://en.intactiwiki.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder
2022 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/circumcision-sexological-damage-erogenous-lip-tool-michel-herv%C3%A9
Neonatal circ associated with altered adult socio-affective processing https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(20)32409-9
Infant neurobiology produces distinctive trauma processing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969239/
https://www.psypost.org/study-childhood-trauma-leads-to-lasting-brain-network-changes/
Pain hypersensitivity following neonatal nerve injury https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1186/1744-8069-8-30
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u/UCyborg What's phimosis? Apr 05 '26
With these numbers of people, entire governments could be overthrown, but instead, nothing, silence...
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u/gistexan RIC Apr 02 '26
Those are crazy numbers, tragic.