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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I KNOW this is a different issue, but female circumcision is seen as horrifying.  Why is mutilating the genitals we are born with seen as OK for males when they are babies?  If they reach age of consent and want to be circumcised, then fine.  I may be in the minority here, but I think Germany is doing the right thing.  [/quote]

Well, since you KNOW I shouldn't have to point it out.  [b]Men who are circumcised seem happy with the way they are, and their sexual satisfaction scores are as high as uncircumcised men.  This is untrue of female circumcision, where women find sex painful for a lifetime or in the happiest case, merely unpleasurable. [/b] Meanwhile there are reasonable health pro's and cons for male circumcision and none for female circumcision.

So they are totally different.[/quote]

You don't seem well informed. There are plenty of online resources on circ men who are not at all happy about it. Just do a quick google search and check out the documentary
Mom, Why Did You Circumcise Me? http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/mom-why-did-you-circumcise-me/

As for female genital mutilation (call it what it is) - there is large variety of procedures between the four types. In some cases, only only the prepuce (the fold of skin surrounding the clitoris) is removed, the clitoris is left intact - so it's basically the equivalent to the operation in boys. Still, no one in the Western world would consider that variation of Type I acceptable. http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/overview/en/index.html

I say good for Germany. They didn't outlaw circumcision for medical reasons, or for consenting older boys, just the "routine" for helpless infants who are too young to give consent. Makes perfect sense. I don't understand why parents are in such a rush to circumcise citing all these studies for STD prevention (there are plenty of threads that discussed how faulty the studies are anyway), which wouldn't be relevant to your boy at least for his first decade of life. [/quote]

Yeah there are people who jump into a subway and then sue when the train stops and they live. So finding a handful of Guys grieving about their lost foreskins isnt enough to win the argument. There is plenty of data on male sexual satisfaction circumcised and uncircumcised. However of you want to play the anecdote game we can trot out the examples of infections for uncircumcised males, at which point you will complain that they are anecdotes, underscoring the hypocrisy of your earlier point.

If you really want the truth go to the forum on intact babies at mothering.com. You can read the many posts from moms trying to figure out what to do about foreskin problems. [/quote]

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