21 Mar 2019, 9:53 am
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21 Mar 2019, 7:42 pm
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21 Mar 2019, 11:44 pm
magz wrote:
The Grand Inquisitor wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Also in my opinion, all pro-circumcision are backwards, and I am just being very polite for picking the word 'backwards'.
Off-topic, but I absolutely agree, unless the male in question chooses to have a circumcision after reaching adulthood, or unless it's medically necessary, the "my body, my choice" argument touted by pro-choice women should apply to male infants too. In fact in most cases it is even more applicable, since at least women generally have some ownership in a situation where they become pregnant, where male infants have literally no say if the parents opt to get a third of their foreskin removed.
Why are men in the US circumcised?
I get religious Jews do it for religious reasons but some quickly googled statistics show there are about 2% of people declaring Judaism as their religion against over half of the men circumcised
I don't get it.
It was the norm until insurance refused to pay for it. My brother got it I didn’t cause insurance wouldn’t pay for it anymore.
I don’t think it should been done but is just a case of that’s how it’s always been so why change mindset
21 Mar 2019, 11:46 pm
The Grand Inquisitor wrote:
magz wrote:
The Grand Inquisitor wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
Also in my opinion, all pro-circumcision are backwards, and I am just being very polite for picking the word 'backwards'.
Off-topic, but I absolutely agree, unless the male in question chooses to have a circumcision after reaching adulthood, or unless it's medically necessary, the "my body, my choice" argument touted by pro-choice women should apply to male infants too. In fact in most cases it is even more applicable, since at least women generally have some ownership in a situation where they become pregnant, where male infants have literally no say if the parents opt to get a third of their foreskin removed.
Why are men in the US circumcised?
I get religious Jews do it for religious reasons but some quickly googled statistics show there are about 2% of people declaring Judaism as their religion against over half of the men circumcised
I don't get it.
Well I'm not from the US, but I'd imagine that the statistics would be pretty similar here in Australia. I've heard a fear of the foreskin getting infected be sighted as a reason (though I've never heard of that happening), and the other main reason I've heard is that when the father is circumcised, he wants his sons to be like him. My dad is circumcised, and he wanted me to get circumcised when I was an infant to be the same as him, but my mum didn't allow it, and I'm glad she didn't, because as an adult I don't think it's morally right to remove any part of a baby boy's body, particularly in such a sensitive area, unless it is medically necessary. I watched an interview in which a guy had had a botched circumcision where the doctor took too much off, and this guy couldn't experience sexual pleasure and was permanently sexually dysfunctional as a result.
Or the cases where they remove too much and so just take it a Nd “make the boy a girl”
21 Mar 2019, 11:49 pm
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22 Mar 2019, 12:11 am
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22 Mar 2019, 2:20 am
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22 Mar 2019, 3:38 am
magz wrote:
I agree with your mother.
I don't see any fundamental difference between infant circumcision for no reason and the so much deplored female genital mutilation. To me, both are equally barbaric - maybe because both are virtually absent in my culture.
I don't see any fundamental difference between infant circumcision for no reason and the so much deplored female genital mutilation. To me, both are equally barbaric - maybe because both are virtually absent in my culture.
The occurence of FGM is waaaaay less common than male circumcision, the former only happens in the most backward regions of the world, and still there’s much more uproar in media about it than the male circumcision that was happening to 90% of American newborn boys and still is still happening to virtually all newborn boys in the Muslim/Jewish world.
I recall there were even women here on WP, often Americans, who would justify male circumcision because “it is not as bad as FGM, it is just a piece of skin” or something like that. Pure backwardness, I have no respect for such “opinions”.
This is another example how far the media doesn’t care about boys/males, the world doesn’t care about males’ sufferings in general, some hundreds baby girls get FMG and the whole world uproars and gets crazy, we have seen countless of news segments, UN reports and even documentary films on the FGM subject,
but millions, probably reached bilions of baby boys get mutilited officially in hospitals for centuries? No one bats an eye.
And now I expect some member to tell me to stop “whining” about this, no I will not, and if he/she sees this is a non-issue then he/she is an another ret*d backward in my book. This topic is just like Rape, it can’t have a “gray” opinion.
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22 Mar 2019, 4:47 am
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
The occurence of FGM is waaaaay less rare than male circumcision
You mean less common / more rare, I suppose
Do you have double negation in your native language? I have.
Personally, I don't think you are whining, I agree that some issues that are rightfully adressed in women should be as rightfully adressed in men and it's injustice that they aren't.
22 Mar 2019, 4:53 am
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22 Mar 2019, 4:59 am
magz wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
The occurence of FGM is waaaaay less rare than male circumcision
You mean less common / more rare, I suppose
Do you have double negation in your native language? I have.
Personally, I don't think you are whining, I agree that some issues that are rightfully adressed in women should be as rightfully adressed in men and it's injustice that they aren't.
o boy... fixed
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