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Funny how religious people can say anything to your face but any retort back is religious prosecution
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A cult demanded my foreskin be removed in infancy and I'm not very cool with that.
Medical technology and hygiene practices have advanced enough that circumcisions don't make much of a difference.
But that same medical technology has not yet advanced enough to let me grow my foreskin back, and that upsets me.
Part of the issue was overzealous moms peeling a still attached foreskin back to clean it when it should have been left alone to detatch when it was ready...resulting in skin infections. Sometimes people take hygiene to an extreme. Like my moms era of believing that bathing in dettol was fine
You might find Foucault's "The Birth of the Clinic" to be fascinating. Doctors, for the longest time, didn't know germ theory. The clinic evolved accordingly and iirc (not sure if this is in the book) the first doctor that was convinced of their presence was institutionalized. (Ignaz Semmelweis)
Also, as an aside, water would not clean germs off in a way that will make the area actually clean. I tell my kids this every time they run the water only to wash their hands but THEY JUST WON'T LISTEN!!!!
Technically I believe there's a stretching process involving weights, but that's as much knowledge of it as my mind was willing to retain. I'd argue if someone needs their foreskin so bad they're basically willing to further mutilate their body to get it, that's it's own mental illness.
Reddit had r/foreskinrestoration and similar subs but nothing similar has grown pun intended here on Lemmy. It took 4 or 5 years of dedicated stretching by hand and with a few different devices but the head of my penis is fully covered and in some ways the circumcision is reversed, and I'm happy with it. Still not the same but much better in terms of sensitivity, no regrets, and not really that much effort involved.
I'm happy that you're happy! Though I gotta say, this:
...is slightly baffling lol.
Ha, yeah. I guess I mean that a few minutes every day or two didnt really impact my life that much. Less than say, going to the gym or learning a language or to play an instrument might.
So, no foreskin growing pills?
They'd need to test it on mice...
Mouse circumcision: we truly do create our own hell.
And mouse hell
Mouse and the Motorcycle about to get an existential dread sequel.
~~Circumcision~~ Genital mutilation was never about hygiene. That is a myth.
Gotta clean it out or ya get that smegma.