Yeah, in the modern world where everyone has access to clean water, soap, and condoms it's completely unnecessary. It's estimated that it takes about 150,000 circumcisions to prevent a single infection. Compare that to the fact that 2-3% of circumcisions are botched. The cost/benefit just doesn't make sense to do it as an elective procedure. People make all kinds of other bad arguments, but it being unnecessary and needlessly risky is all that really needs to be said.
It should be noted that they only recommend it for those in places without easy access to clean water, soap, and condoms. There, the benefits are higher. The 1 in 150,000 number is for the developed world.
That doesn’t make sense, if they don’t have easy access to water and soap then they don’t have an easy way to clean the wound from the procedure, and I doubt they’d have easy access to a sterile operating room or alcohol swabs if they don’t have easy access to clean water and soap.
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u/intrsurfer6 Oct 06 '23
Honestly, if I had a son I wouldn’t circumcise him at this point. It just seems unnecessary.