01-19-2016, 10:35 AM
I was intrigued by a topic brought up in the Kansas Planned Parenthood thread. Vlad called out the disgusting practice of female circumcision (genital mutilation). He mentioned the fact that it is still prevalent in a number of nations in West and Saharan Africa and a few in the MIddle East. They range from 1% prevalence to about 96%.
Many African nations have now banned the practice and the UN decided a few years ago that this is a human rights issue.
These are good first steps but it makes me wonder something. Why are we ok with the prevalence of male circumcision? It certainly is a safer practice and is done either for presumed health reasons or religion, not to make sex less pleasurable.
But is it still not mutilation? My friends' pediatrician told them that he couldn't give them a reason to do it or not to do it when they asked about their son a year ago. Besides the Middle East and much of the Northern half of Africa, America and Australia are alone in their high rates of male circumcision.
Where do we stand on this practice?
Many African nations have now banned the practice and the UN decided a few years ago that this is a human rights issue.
These are good first steps but it makes me wonder something. Why are we ok with the prevalence of male circumcision? It certainly is a safer practice and is done either for presumed health reasons or religion, not to make sex less pleasurable.
But is it still not mutilation? My friends' pediatrician told them that he couldn't give them a reason to do it or not to do it when they asked about their son a year ago. Besides the Middle East and much of the Northern half of Africa, America and Australia are alone in their high rates of male circumcision.
Where do we stand on this practice?
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