[ddol]

Yes.

I was born in Ireland, my wife was born in the US. We had our eldest son in San Francisco a few years ago (he’s in elementary school). My wife gave birth at UCSF, a world class hospital in a liberal city, in the land of personal freedom.

We did not want our son circumcised but hospital staff couldn’t seem to comprehend this. Six separate people attempted to schedule a circumcision, one saying (condescendingly) “well, you know it is safer that we do it now than you waiting for later”. One person asked us twice, the second time asking if we had changed our mind.

Either they were on some kind of commission for extra services, or they genuinely couldn’t grok that we didn’t want our son cut. It was a very strange experience.

[DaveExeter]

It brings in $millions to hospitals, who get paid to do it and then sell the amputated forskins!

So yes, hospital staffers are heavily incentivized to promote it.

[ddol]

This feels like it can’t be true. Who do they sell them to, and why?

[Eumenes]

https://people.com/style/we-tried-it-cate-blanchett-sandra-b...

[adamwong246]

It is true, and it is the rotting heart of the matter. Religious rites aside, this is the reason that the practice persists to this day. The very same doctors who take the Hippocratic Oath get a nice payday for every foreskin removed. The removed tissue is then sold to make fancy cosmetics.

[MichaelZuo]

Well perfume makers pay millions of dollars for the right kind of whale poop so it's not that surprising.

[Smoosh]

Not poop, vomit.

[MichaelZuo]

Eh close enough.

[apwell23]

Our hospital in chicago asked us once in a entry form and that was the end of.