Rhetorical question, but isn’t preputioplasty genital mutilation too?
Nice, but the original recommended circumcision in cases of recurring infection, and the second recommended it in cases of scarring, so my point still stands. In those cases we would have to go back and circumcise you, but it would be banned- so your dick would drop off.
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I'm not saying it's impossible for a circumstance to occur where it could be an option, but it should be treated like cutting off an arm: an extreme solution to extreme problems when every other option has failed. Such would be absurdly rare. Routine circumcision is abhorrent
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Only 77% of U.S. men are circumcised. It isn’t routine. It has multiple detailed, legitimate medical uses. So tell me if it fits the definition of mutilation? I’m still looking to have my mind changed here.
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Mutilation: to damage or make imperfect by destruction of part or parts. Circumcision is mutilation.
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Thanks for the definition. So go up to where I asked what makes preputioplasty different. Can you give me an answer? Where’s the line here?
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Preputioplasty doesn't remove flesh, it doesn't remove any of the functions of the foreskin. It should only damage sensation at all when something goes wrong. It's a technique that was devised to preserve the natural body. Circumcision was intended to destroy it.
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It’s cutting. It therefore fits. And you can’t argue the intention of a modern medical procedure by referring to what it was originally used for:
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Nothing is destroyed. Ergo not mutilation.
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You said cutting was included in the definition
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No one, none of us, is calling for a ban when: 1) there is medical need as a last resort, as all surgery should be 2) a consenting adult man asks for it to be done to himself The ban being sought is for non medical reasons on children.
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