1/15 It's been 20 yrs (& about a week) since #SexAndTheCity aired its infamous male body shaming episode ("Old Dogs, New Dicks," S2:E9, original air date Aug 1, 1999) in which Charlotte rejects a man for having a whole penis - & has sex w/him only after he's circumcised. #i2
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9/15 As if males could never rationally decide to keep their penises whole, despite all of the obvious good reasons for doing so (including Samantha's "love" for them). As if they certainly won't mind a lifetime of snide speculation from the Carrie Bradshaws of the world as to...
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10/15 ...whether they were forced to "budge" an "inch and a half" or just an "inch". (An average-sized man actually [has/loses] 12-15 square inches of movable surface area if he's [intact/circumcised].) As if males SHOULDN"T be allowed to control their own bodies after all.
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11/15 That, it seems, is the intended takeaway. Or as the Jewish MD & cultural anthropologist Leonard Glick put it in his analysis of this episode in his book Marked in Your Flesh (pp. 269-71 & upon which much of my own discussion here is based): "However men may feel about...
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12/15 "...their own genitals, foreskins must be removed because women say no to the intact penis." Of course, the problem w/this premise is that it lacks basis in reality, as 100s of millions (if not billions) of women from the vast majority of the world that doesn't...
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13/15 ...circumcise will happily attest. As Glick himself notes (Marked in Your Flesh, p. 279): "The most deplorable effect of 'routine' circumcisions is loss of maximal sexual fulfillment for both men and women. Some circumcision advocates, while acknowledging the loss of...
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14/15 "...sexual pleasure, maintain that this is socially desirable. I leave that argument for you to judge." How will history judge
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15/15 The right to be free of nontherapeutic amputative surgery belongs to everyone, including infant boys.
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