Circumcision is male genital mutilation Circumcision is male genital mutilation Circumcision is male genital mutilation Circumcision is male genital mutilation Circumcision is male genital mutilation Circumcision is male genital mutilation
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Replying to @dmschott
Like yes, but also no. It is mutilation and it shouldn't be allowed, but it shouldn't be compared to FGM which is arguably much more brutal as its core aim is to remove sexual pleasure from women.
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"The only physiological advantage which the prepuce can be supposed to confer is that of maintaining the penis in a condition susceptible to more acute sensation than would otherwise exist. It may increase the pleasure of intercourse and the impulse to it: but these are >>
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2> advantages which in the present state of society can well be spared." Editor, Medical News. Our London Letter. Medical World,(1900).vol.77:pp.707-8 Circumcision in boys had the core aim of removing sexual pleasure, preventing masturbation. All the reasons are the same, >>
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3> people have simply forgotten why it all started back in 1860 as a medical procedure, and if you want to go into the procedure in religions, same reasons too, read what Philo of Alexandria, a first century Jewish scholar says about it - >>
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4> First of all, it is a symbol of the excision of the pleasures which delude the mind; for since, of all the delights which pleasure can afford, the association of man with woman is the most exquisite, it seemed good to the lawgivers to mutilate the organ which ministers to>>
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5> such connections; by which rite they signified figuratively the excision of all superfluous and excessive pleasure, not, indeed, of one only, but of all others whatever, through that one which is the most imperious of all." Parents and doctors in FGM cultures say it's >>
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6> cleaner, more hygienic, prevents UTIs, smells better, looks better, is required by their faith or culture, all the same reasons given for circumcision, there's even two studies that found a similar reduction in HIV for FGM victims over intact women.
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And just like most men who were circumcised, these women defend it, believe it should be done, and they often take their daughters to be cut, not the father. It's a false dichotomy to say they're different, but FGM is alien to you, circumcision normalised.pic.twitter.com/pNrC2J4mcB
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