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Ethics & Consent

Bioethics of non-therapeutic surgery on a non-consenting minor: autonomy, proxy consent, proportionality.

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What the evidence says

Structured, source-linked claims — rewritten by AntiCirc from primary sources. Each shows its confidence, evidence level, and what it does not prove.

Child rights High confidence Moderate evidence

Social pressure weakens the meaning of "consent" for tuli

Consent is weaker when a boy undergoes a permanent genital surgery mainly to avoid shame, bullying, or the stigma of being called "supĂłt"; social pressure is not the same as free, informed choice.

This is an ethical/child-rights argument, not a measured clinical outcome; "supĂłt" is described here only as a stigma term.

Ethics Moderate confidence Moderate evidence

“Harmless tradition/hygiene” is not an evidence-based framing of tuli

Framing tuli as a harmless tradition or simple hygiene is not evidence-based: it is a permanent, non-therapeutic genital surgery performed on a minor under social pressure, with real (if usually low) risk and contested effects on sensation.

This is an evidentiary/ethical synthesis; it does not claim every tuli is traumatic or that every circumcised man has harm.

Sources

Primary sources cited by this topic’s claims.

Social pressure weakens the meaning of "consent" for tuli

“Harmless tradition/hygiene” is not an evidence-based framing of tuli

Legacy source maps

Reference pages from IntactiWiki / CIRP that guide this topic's rewrite. They are not copied or mirrored — we map them, then write from primary sources.

CIRP Scoped Lead only Medium reuse risk Priority 25

CIRP Library — Bioethics

Index of bioethics papers on consent and non-therapeutic surgery — leads to primary ethics literature.

Ethics & Consent Bioethics Open original (external)
IntactiWiki To do Lead only Risk unknown Priority 25

IntactiWiki — Medical ethics

Medical-ethics overview — consent, autonomy, proportionality; leads to primary bioethics literature.

Ethics & Consent Medical ethics Open original (external)

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Needs an AntiCirc rewrite

Mapped pages still awaiting an original AntiCirc treatment, highest priority first.

CIRP Scoped Lead only Medium reuse risk Priority 25

CIRP Library — Bioethics

Index of bioethics papers on consent and non-therapeutic surgery — leads to primary ethics literature.

Ethics & Consent Bioethics Open original (external)
IntactiWiki To do Lead only Risk unknown Priority 25

IntactiWiki — Medical ethics

Medical-ethics overview — consent, autonomy, proportionality; leads to primary bioethics literature.

Ethics & Consent Medical ethics Open original (external)