Are you circumsized?

[Johnny Cupcakes]

(02-21-2018, 04:20 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I don't know. I mean, there are different versions of the practice and some of them are much different. If we were talking excision of the clitoral hood and/or the labia minora, then I would agree. However, clitoridectomies and infibulation are things that also fall under what we typically call FGM (or FGO, if we want to take a relativistic stance on the topic). To compare a clitoridectomy, the glans penis would have to be cut off entirely. There is no comparable version of infibulation, as far as I know.

No mention was made of the severity of the mutilations....

Still, they may be different enough to discuss separately, while also similar enough to address as one.

People like to pretend that the mutilation of the penis isn't a problem because it's been long accepted in the United States (when it is virtually nowhere else outside of third world countries), when really, the practice typically consists of taking an unwilling infant, inflicting pain and harm upon them, and leaving them with potential decreased sexual sensitivity.

All in the name of religious beliefs that the child does not hold.

Seems like something we should have retired long ago.