Healthy children shouldn’t lose healthy parts before they can say yes.

Whose body, whose choice

When the choice is actually theirs, they keep it

Here is the quiet fact at the center of the whole argument. In almost every country where boys grow up intact and the decision is left to them, they overwhelmingly do NOT choose circumcision as adults. The foreskin is only ever removed in large numbers when someone else decides, before the person can object.

Across most of Europe, Latin America and non-Muslim Asia, boys are left intact and grown men seek circumcision only rarely. Where the procedure is common, it is because it is done to infants and children — driven by religion, custom, or a parent’s decision — not because adults, weighing it freely, keep arriving at yes.[1]

None of this says a circumcised man should feel any particular way about his own body, and it doesn’t mean the adults who do choose it are wrong to. It’s a simpler observation than that: when you let the person whose body it is make the call, the answer is usually “leave it as it is.” Under the current default, most of them never get asked.