• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours 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