The Illusion of Choice: Why Circumcision is a Violation, Not a Decision
The Illusion of Choice: Why Circumcision is a Violation, Not a Decision
Written By ✌️💚🥑🍌 AvocadoJay23 | AdvocatingAvocado
I. The Double Standard of Genital Cutting
• Forced genital cutting is universally condemned for girls but excused for boys under the false pretense of “choice.”
• In the U.S., even the smallest cut on a girl’s genitals is outlawed under the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Act, regardless of cultural or religious beliefs.
• Yet, male infants are denied the same legal protection, even though their bodily integrity is equally violated.
• Bodily autonomy is not conditional—it should be protected from birth, not “offered as a choice” later.
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II. The “He Can Choose Later” Lie
1. The Reality: Most Circumcised Men Never Had a Choice
• By the time a boy turns 18, the damage is already done.
• He can’t regrow his foreskin—the nerves, protective layers, and erogenous tissue are permanently removed.
• Foreskin restoration is possible, but it can never fully restore the natural structure or function of what was lost.
• The decision was made for him at birth, even though it was his body—not his parents’.
2. Framing Circumcision as a “Future Choice” is Manipulative
• The illusion of choice makes circumcision seem acceptable by implying it’s a reasonable option—when in reality, it is an unethical, unnecessary, and irreversible genital surgery.
• Parents who say, “We’ll let him choose at 18,” are still implying that circumcision is normal or beneficial—when it shouldn’t even be on the table.
• No ethical doctor would say, “Let’s cut off a healthy part of your child’s body later if they decide to”—yet this logic is applied to male circumcision.
3. Psychological and Social Barriers to “Choosing Later”
Most circumcised men do not seek foreskin restoration because:
• They don’t know what they lost, since they were circumcised as infants.
• Society normalizes circumcision, making it seem unimportant.
• They fear judgment or shame for wanting to restore their body.
• There are no mainstream medical or legal pathways to undo the damage.
If a boy grows up circumcised, he is far less likely to question it—because the system is designed to keep him ignorant of what was taken from him.
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III. The Choice Argument is a Distraction from the Real Issue: Consent
1. Circumcision Violates Consent, Making “Choice” Irrelevant
• True bodily autonomy means the right to be left intact until a person can decide for themselves.
• Parents do not have the right to alter a child’s body for cosmetic, religious, or cultural reasons—just as they cannot tattoo, pierce, or surgically modify their child without consent.
• A decision about removing healthy genital tissue should never be an option unless it is medically necessary.
2. We Don’t Delay Bodily Integrity for Girls—So Why for Boys?
• No one says, “Let’s wait until a girl is 18 to let her decide if she wants FGM,” because it’s already illegal, unethical, and a violation of her rights.
• Circumcision is no different—the only reason it is still debated is that male genital cutting has been normalized through cultural conditioning and misinformation.
• The law already protects girls from any form of genital cutting—boys deserve the same protection.
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IV. Ending the Illusion: A True Ethical Standard
• The only ethical stance is to protect all children—regardless of sex, gender, or culture—from any non-consensual genital cutting.
• Society must stop pretending that circumcision is a choice and recognize it as the permanent bodily violation that it is.
• We don’t need to “offer” circumcision at 18 because it should never be considered a valid option to begin with.
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Conclusion: Circumcision is Not a Choice—It’s a Violation
• The “wait until 18” argument is a distraction that keeps circumcision framed as a normal or reasonable choice.
• No one should have to “choose” whether they get to keep a normal, healthy part of their body.
• The ethical solution is simple: protect children from forced genital cutting from birth—just like we already do for girls.
Food for thought:
Circumcision should be fully banned—no exceptions. Allowing it at 18 still frames it as a ‘choice,’ but in reality, it’s a violation of bodily integrity. We don’t offer this option to women because we recognize that cutting any part of the genitals is mutilation. The same standard must apply to men.
Furthermore, the so-called ‘medical reasons’ are an illusion. There is no condition that requires circumcision as a first-line treatment. Every genuine medical concern can be treated conservatively, just as we do for every other body part. The foreskin is a functional organ, not a mistake of nature. Its removal should never be normalized.
Finalized Revision: Adding “Food for Thought” Expansion
Food for Thought: The Truth About Circumcision and the Illusion of Choice
Circumcision should be fully banned no exceptions. The idea of allowing it at 18 still frames it as a ‘choice,’ but in reality, it’s a violation of bodily integrity. We don’t offer this option to women because we recognize that cutting any part of the genitals is mutilation. The same standard must apply to men.
The fact that a person was born with a body part means it was meant to be there. No one should be conditioned into feeling like they need to amputate a healthy part of themselves. And yet, that’s exactly what happens—by the time many young men turn 18, they’ve been subjected to years of misinformation, aesthetic insecurity, and social pressure to conform.
If circumcision were truly a neutral choice, there wouldn’t be an entire industry built on convincing men that they need it for hygiene, attractiveness, or sexual performance. No other body part is treated this way.
The Legal Double Standard: Why Isn’t This Called Mutilation?
Let’s talk about legal consistency.
Female circumcision—of any kind—is illegal in the U.S., even for consenting adults. If an 18-year-old woman wanted to undergo a minor form of female genital cutting, it would still be considered mutilation under federal law.
But a man can be pressured, manipulated, or influenced into removing a functional, erogenous body part with irreversible consequences and that’s somehow acceptable?
The double standard is undeniable.
Real Bodily Autonomy Means Leaving the Body Whole
True bodily autonomy means protecting the body’s natural integrity. There is no ‘choice’ to amputate a healthy, functional body part when the default should be to respect it and keep it whole.
The best way to protect autonomy is not to give people the option to remove something they were never meant to lose—it’s to stop promoting the idea that circumcision is necessary in the first place.
Instead of making it an option, we should be focusing on:
• Education on the foreskin’s function
• Foreskin restoration awareness
• Dismantling the stigma that leads men to believe they need circumcision at all
If anything, circumcision should be treated like any other form of non-therapeutic genital cutting: completely unnecessary and discouraged at all ages.
Medical Justifications? A Convenient Lie
Furthermore, the so-called ‘medical reasons’ are an illusion. There is no condition that requires circumcision as a first-line treatment.
Any genuine medical concern can be treated conservatively, just as we do for every other body part.
The foreskin is a functional organ, not a mistake of nature. Its removal should never be normalized.
🔹 Final Impact
If you believe men should be able to choose circumcision at 18, then by that same logic, women should also be legally allowed to choose female circumcision at 18. Otherwise, you’re applying a double standard, protecting one sex from genital cutting while leaving the other vulnerable to it.
1. The Harm of Circumcision – Scientific and ethical concerns regarding circumcision.
➡ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1_4
2. NOHARMM (National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males) – A human rights organization advocating against male genital cutting.
➡ https://www.noharmm.org/home.htm
3. Circumcision Resource Center – Compilation of studies on circumcision’s psychological, physical, and ethical impacts.
➡ https://circumcision.org/studies-on-circumcision
4. Nontherapeutic Circumcision of Minors as an Ethically Problematic Form of Iatrogenic Injury – Discussion of circumcision ethics in the AMA Journal of Ethics.
5. Intact America – The largest anti-circumcision advocacy organization, promoting genital autonomy.
#GenitalAutonomy #IntactAmerica #CircumcisionHarm #BodilyIntegrity #EndFGM #HumanRights #ProtectChildren #Intactivist #StopMGM #ConsentMatters
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