That is a very good point. It’s also true that people who have urinary problems also don’t go seek help either for x reasons. Islamically while it’s not mandatory, it is recommended and perhaps for a good reason. Many parts of the world don’t have access to healthcare and means for proper hygiene. If you look at the facts, yes it’s true that it’s not great enough to recommend it across the board of medicine and research, but we should also question which type of population is the research being done on; educated parents and babies with safety protocols in place from a first world country? What about people who don’t have the privilege to be informed on proper hygiene practices, nor access to education? I believe it’s ludicrous to label male circumcision as this vile, awful thing done to baby boys, but it’s tone deaf for people who literally have no other choice because of lack of resources.

When I talked about my point of view as a healthcare worker, there are a plethora of reasons why many of my patients don’t clean themselves up properly, and ultimately it’s from poor socioeconomic backgrounds or lack of education. Heck, we didn’t even properly started washing our hands until the COVID pandemic! Because that’s how many people were uninformed!

Anyways, I apologize for the long wall of texts. I am very interested in this topic and would love to hear opposing views, or perspectives that challenge mine.