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Thread #85446   Message #1583689
Posted By: Peace
15-Oct-05 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
Subject: RE: BS: Circumcision: pros and cons
The issue of male circumcision is one thing. The aspects of it to do with male 'sensitivity' during sex, cleanliness, whether males who are or aren't circumcized will last longer during coitus, etc. In reality, there are sites dedicated to 'both' sides of that equation. Many sites. Mostly, you are who you are, and that's that.

Female circumcision is barbaric. Suggesting that there are social customs in place and therefore it's gotta be done is nothing more or less than bullshit. Read Jackson's "The Lottery" and watch rituals/traditions at work.

The differences between male and female circumcision are massive both in their pain to the recipient and in their end results.

"Genital alteration in the female includes infibulation, clitoridectomy, clitoral circumcision and piercing. The World Health Organization had a conference in February 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan, and unanimously condemned the mutilations as disastrous to women's health and as indefensible on medical as well as humane grounds."

The above is from

here.