Circumcision should be banned.

You are being extremely unreasonable to associate circumcision with FGM.

It’s not a religious thing in USA

There are downsides. The foreskin contains between 20000 and 100000 nerve endings. The glans is meant to be protected too.

It's not a small procedure. Don't minimise it just because you agree with it, that's dishonest

Yes it should be done on medical grounds only. I understand it’s a religious thing but we need to move with the times. We shouldn’t be modifying bodies without medical reasons or at least that person’s consent.

male circumcision doesn't cause any issues going forward once healed.

There are several anti circumcision groups that disagree with you

If you think it's cruel, and that cruelty is being inflicted on a child, then surely that goes beyond a moral belief? There is no religious or cultural belief that should ever trump actual bodily harm or cruelty to a child. I don't think it's supremacist to hold that position.

Possibly, but I think there are some things we can be sure of. Does disagreeing with the death penalty for adulterers make me a supremacist for example?

99% of men in the USA are circumcised

As I said, I disagree with both.

I'm not going to go into the various types of FGM on here because they are horrifying and triggering to many. But if you'd like to Google the levels of FGM you can. The most severe totally disable the women concerned, making sex painful and unpleasant forever. Below (and you've been warned) why it's different.

Can involve total removal of the external genitals, including the clitoris, and narrowing the vaginal opening (by making a flap and sewing shut), removing pleasure, and introducing dreadful pain.

Unfortunately it can cause very severe issues of pain and sexual dysfunction for men who were circumcised as young children. It’s rare, but it does happen.

Actor Tom Rosenthal has talked about the problems he has faced following childhood circumcision and how he is against the circumcising of children.

Attempting to yoke male circumcision together with FGM is trolling, a bit. The former is a pretty small procedure with trivial hygiene/health benefits and no lifelong downsides. It’s also impractical to outlaw it whilst it remains a religious practice for two major world religions.

I can't vote as I am on the app but I don't think it should be allowed for non-medical reasons. It is frankly pretty extraordinary that it is still common in 2025.

Who decides that our moral limits trumps that of others. As I said, the name for that attitude is supremacism

That must have been excruciatingly painful for a young baby
They General Anaesthetise an adult / teen - a baby will feel equal pain, surely.

It’s like when piglets are castrated- brutal poor little things cry so hard. ( Pets are GA)

Although I agree circumcision shouldn't be allowed apart from for health reasons, male circumcision doesn't cause any issues going forward once healed eg pain, sexual dysfunction etc. FGM can make sex impossible or impossibly painful and cause severe and dangerous lifelong consequences for girls and women, aside from the dangers of infection and extreme pain at the time.

Totally agree, how on earth can it still be allowed in this day and age. Tradition and faith are not reasons to mutilate a child.

Mutilating a girls body through FGM without consent is abuse. Why is mutilating a boys body through circumcision without consent not abuse?

Whilst I agree it can be difficult, I think respect of different cultures does have moral limits. Physically harming another person is a moral absolute imo.

My answer to this is above

Also I don’t think it should be legal to pierce children’s ears when they’re very young - although probably the age for that could be lower.

In what way do you consider them different?

I think that it shown be allowed for males over 16 if they choose, but not for babies.

I totally agree that FGM is in a different league to circumcision (of males, which is what the word means) and it’s important to stop saying that. I used to have a boyfriend who was circumcised and it didn’t affect his sex live at all (either in our relationship, before or presumably afterwards!)

12% think it should be kept - any of those want to justify that? Shocking

for a child- not unless medically needed
for an adult able to consent- personal choice but not NHS funded unless medically needed.

That’s awful!
A teenaged boy I know had a nasty zip injury that scarred ( he panicked and yanked the heavy jeans zip)

He was treated by Urology dept and given a general anaesthetic.

He said when he came round afterwards and woozily checked his dressings, the lovely nurse said “ Don’t worry! It’s still there!