I'm delighted to be one of the authors of this article, which argues that non-consensual genital cutting, paradigmatically on children, should only be performed if medically necessary.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2019.1643945?scroll=top&needAccess=true …
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Replying to @MichaelEzra
Lots of answers, but briefly: 1) Much better to wait until old enough for actual consent - being uncircumcised is not an emergency. 2) Not many adult men choose circumcision for themselves so probabilistic reasoning seems doubtful.
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Replying to @MichaelEzra @DrClareChambers
There's no such thing as "retrospective consent." What you're describing is called ratification. The % of men who won't ratify the circumcisions forced on them as children (I'm one of them) is much higher than you think: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28894958 But since it's THEIR bodies...
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Does that mean you think that those who say that girls have an absolute right to refuse nontherapeutic alterations to their genitals have "not well argued with reasoning"? Where are your peer-reviewed, double-blind studies showing most cut women resent it? #DoubleStandard #i2
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