First - Yes circumcision is mutilation, it completely fits the definition of mutilation. Mutilation or maiming is cutting off or injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.
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Second - The entire purpose of circumcision was the "act of deliberately cutting, injuring or butchering male genitalia for no good medical reason" The purpose of medical circumcision was to prevent masturbation 150 years ago. This is why it is done, even within religion >>
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Third "While there is at least debate about the benefits, or otherwise, of male circumcision, that is emphatically not the case when it comes to the cruel practice of FGM" There actually is such a debate, it's simply heavily stacked the other way. >>
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Fourth "Male circumcision, by comparison, is not banned anywhere." The fact a thing is legal does not make it right, does not make it any less of a mutilation. Slavery was still legal when medical circumcision started in the USA, we all accept that to have been wrong, don't we?
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Fifth - "There is a strong indication that the recent attempted ban was motivated by racial and religious intolerance" Lets see this evidence? Are you talking the letters written by the ADL? And if we're talking religious freedom, many Muslim sects believe that FGM is also >>
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Sixth - The simplest, and most honest, reason is that I am circumcised myself so it seems natural. It’s not something, in my opinion, that others should read too much into. - But it is. "Look like daddy" is the worst reason to circumcise a child. In my opinion.
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Seventh - "I simply thought, I had it done and I am fine, so my boys should also have it done" - What's your comparison? You had it done and you survived, you had it done and you still can have children, but you have no comparison. There are hundreds of boys who die of this >>
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8th - It really isn’t different from the many things parents indirectly impose on their children in the early years. - it is VERY VERY different. There is nothing else parents impose on children that cannot be undone. Don't want to eat broccoli as an adult, stop eating it. >>
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9th - "At no point did I think, I’ve had a piece of my penis removed and so I must punish my son by inflicting the same upon him" and "The simplest, and most honest, reason is that I am circumcised myself so it seems natural." not in those words, but you had a piece of your >>
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10th - "I could make a list of other things that my parents imposed on me that haunt me to this day. This is categorically not one of them." Good for you, it's the TOP of my list, it wasn't for years, not until I started meeting intact men as sexual partners. Then I realized >>
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2> just how much had been changed and removed, and just how much worse it makes things sexually. Then I started to research, then I felt violated, then I felt betrayed. Then I told them that I believed circumcision was the worst thing that ever did, and ever would happen to me.
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