The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85446   Message #1583342
Posted By: frogprince
14-Oct-05 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
Subject: RE: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
I can understand that a lot of people now feel that male circumcision is unnecessary and inappropriate. But I have a hard time understanding anything remotely like the outrage over it that we're seeing here. If you could get an accurate survey of circumcised males, nationally or worldwide, you would look far and wide for any male outside a mental institution who gives any thought, in any given five year period, to whether or not he is circumcised. (Apart, that is, from any religious significance it has for him.)
To equate the significance of male circumcision and female circumcision is as unrealistic as to equate having a child's ears pierced (which I personally wouldn't do) with the crippling practice of foot binding.