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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, but that' super rare. Only around 0.6% of boys experience it before they're 15. Even if you're born with true pathological phimosis, circumcision is usually a last resort because topical steroids are safer and have a pretty high success rate.

"The incidence of pathological phimosis is 0.4 per 1000 boys per year or 0.6% of boys are affected by their 15th birthday."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3329654/

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    penis != boy

    better terminology could be used.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If we were talking about adults yeah, but the study is mentioning 14 year old boys...

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    In this context age is not relevant as I am using the "synonym of man" definition of "boy"

    I am talking about the fact that there are non-boys with penises (Such as myself, I am AMAB agender) and boys without penises.

    There are better terms that could be used here. In this particular case, for example:

    “The incidence of pathological phimosis is 0.4 per 1000 boys per year or 0.6% of boys are affected by their 15th birthday.”

    “The incidence of pathological phimosis is, counting only people who have penises, 0.4 per 1000 people per year; 0.6% are affected by their 15th birthday.”

    Less concise but accuracy>conciseness in this context

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