I come from a country and a culture that doesn't usually circumcise babies, so I find it strange that it happens routinely - and people rarely question it.
It took me over a month, barely speaking to either of them, sending them an email every day with research papers they probably didn't understand, with images, with quotes from the 1800s where circumcision was a cure for masturbation and sexual pleasure and that was seen as good.
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Your parents just unquestioningly did what everyone else did. :-(
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Yes, and 30 years later, when I, the one they did it to, said it was "the worst thing that has ever been done to me, and likely would be until the day I die" they wouldn't accept my words, when they were about myself, my body. Their belief doesn't matter when I am the one harmed.
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Confronting one's parents about this subject is one of the most stressful experiences I've been through. I'm sympathetic to their situation - they had little information, did what they thought was right, can't fix it now - but I needed them to acknowledge it was wrong.
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they only thought it was right because the doctors lied to them--about a matter of crucial importance to them, but not to him
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I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to say the doctor lied to my parents, he may have been just as uninformed. After all it's OBGYNs, doctors that spend their entire medical career focused on the vagina, who we trust to inform parents about cutting part of the penis off.
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Perhaps that's part of why FGM is so vilified, the ones that would be expected to do it or counsel on it actually know what the damage it does is, they've spent decades working with women and their genitals, but only see boy's genitals when it's a boy being born, or circumcision
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sure, but for a professional (as opposed to a layman) to pass on false information is culpable, especially given the consequences. OBGYN themselves have no business cutting babies--the child's health is in no danger and, as you say, they are women's doctors
#DoctorsAreDickheads
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