I don't understand why GUEST is arguing so strenuously. Obviously, it's not for him/her. It might not be for me, either; I don't know, I'm not to the point in my life where I might want to decide. I certainly don't consider it mutilation (I find it hard to believe that it's really any harder on the body than ingesting hormones long-term or inserting foreign objects into the necessary orifices).

To each his or her own.