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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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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