One of two reasons: 1 - religion - if cutting for religion you need a ritual and what not, to expose the kid to more danger than the genital mutilation would normally 2 - money - even in countries with socialised medicine they don't pay for a parent to mutilate their sons anymore
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If removing the prepuce of a male penis was mutilation, there would be less people in the world.
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That makes absolutely no sense what so ever, as mutilation neither kills nor renders a person infertile automatically. It is a mutilation as it fits the definition of mutilation, just because some people are attracted to and fetishize that mutilation does not change anything.
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Please do not insult my intelligence nor that of billions of men who were circumcised.
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I'm honestly waiting for you to give a clear thought there, your assertion makes no sense whatsoever, it appears to be a half formed statement. Cutting off a healthy part of the body without the consent of that person is the very definition of mutilation, period.
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Nope, because the prepuce is not as useful as you might think. And because circumcised men don’t find they were mutilated. Their penis works well and they have a good sex. Male circs are not mutilation.
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And that doesn't change the fact that it's a mutilation. It is cutting off a body part that is perfectly healthy without consent of the person. Your definition of mutilation is very narrow and most FGM doesn't even fit it.
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A prepuce is not a body part. It’s just extra skin. Look I’ve known men who did not get circs, and wished they had.
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Never too late, so they must not want to be cut as much as you think. If they did, they'd get anesthetic while the prepuce (w/all its nerves & blood vessels) was removed. Surgically. Because as everyone with even an ounce of intelligence knows, the prepuce is a body part
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And everyone with a penis should know about Balanitis, Cancer of the prepuce, Phimosis, HPV and more issues which result in the need to get circumcised .
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The small risk of those conditions certainly doesn't create a "need" to force #circumcision - amputation of a valuable body part - on a healthy child. Parents can validly permit surgery on a child only for diagnosis or treatment. Circumcision is neither. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …
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