This is wonderful. Stop whatever you are doing and watch this #FemaleCircumcision is not #FGM
Brilliant insight @briandavidearp and Seth
http://bit.ly/2HH0kPv https://twitter.com/femcircumcision/status/981928354315161605 …
To make sure I understand, your view is that parents generally perform khatna (cutting of clitoral hood in girls, removal of foreskin in boys) with the desire to 'control' girls' sexuality (i.e., cause less pleasure?) but not boys' sexuality, though the latter is more severe?
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Is ur claim that cutting clitoral hood necessarily causes trauma, and does as a matter of fact (thereby) 'control' a girl's sexuality (again, what does that mean?), or it is *sometimes* traumatic, and (thus, then) has bad effects on sexual experience? If latter, also true of MC
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I had thought your motivation for opposition was the lack of consent and the violation of a child's sexual organ, which applies to females and males alike. But now you say something about 'controlling sexuality.' This is a conscious motive, and only toward girls, in your view?
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I discuss the "different motives" claim here: https://www.dovepress.com/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-circumcision-toward-an-autonomy-bas-peer-reviewed-article-MB …. And here I argue that separate campaigns for female and male cutting will ultimately undermine the former (i.e., backfire) http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2017/08/does-female-genital-mutilation-have-health-benefits-the-problem-with-medicalizing-morality/ …. This is a children's rights issue; stronger when united
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