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If circumcision as a tradition gave cultures an evolutionary advantage due to medical benefit you'd expect that it would've spread farther, yet we see basically 1 small insular group and another much more recent, semi insular group adopt it. The vast majority of men on this earth are uncircumcised.

Foot binding probably led to reduced STD tranission as well, due to women being unable to leave the house and become sexually active (which was part of the reason for it), I don't think medical benefit is a good defense of violating a human beingst agency and bodily autonomy.

There are other cultures that have other circumcision traditions that are much more brutal, I don't see any arguments for their medical benefit, and I think this argument about medical benefit is a rationalization for defense of a cultural tradition after the fact.



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