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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you who plan to or have cut, damaged, mutilated your boy child's penis I challenge you to come back here in 20, 30, 40 years time and tell me that you don't regret that decision and that you don't then understand why what you did was wrong.  Your sons will be in the minority and [b]there will be no support for this cultural phenomenon any more.[/b]

If this isn't the case, I will willingly buy you all a drink.

Look at other cultural mutilation and how it it viewed today e.g.

- binding feet in China
- female circumcision around the globe
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Are you implying there will be peer pressure against circumcision? Because although about zero percent of the circumcision parents on here have listed reasons like, "so he'll look 'normal,'" that's what many anti-circ poster accuse them of. Yet here you are making an argument that sounds an awful lot like peer pressure.

You do realize that circumcised men can walk with great ease and[b] urinate and have sex normally,[/b] right? You really undercut your argument by drawing ridiculous comparisons. [/quote]

Not true.  Look at the impact of circumcision, read some research, try and learn how the penis functions.

While you're at it, read back through the thread and see all the posters talking about their fear that their kid will be teased in the locker room.  yes, it's absolutely peer pressure that makes people circumcise in this country.  do you not understand what it means that this is a cultural practice?!  [/quote]

Do you not understand that talking down to people who have also done their research and come to the opposite conclusion are not doing it for peer pressure? And, really, you want to equate the difficulties urinating and having sex faced by women who have had FGM to what men suffer? And to the foot binding - cut men can walk without assistance. I note you didn't bold that part of my quote.[/quote]

Are you deliberately pretending not to understand the comparison?  All are cultural practices that are (or were) done because people thought that they looked good and were the right thing to do.  If people who have decided to circumcise in the US did so because they have "done their research" then how is it that the vast majority of people in almost any other country in the world are faced with the same "choice" and come to different conclusions EVERY.SINGLE.TIME?  Are Americans just "smarter" than virtually everyone else on the planet?  No they are not.  They have just bought into this fallacy that 1) it is somehow healthier and 2) that is looks better/like daddy/like the other kids in the locker room who in your world are all comparing their genitals all the time.  None of these things are true.  In fact, outside of the US, it's not actually an active choice that most people even consider.  They leave their child's genitals just as they were when they were born.  Perfect.  There's something quite perverse and sickening to think that you have the right to damage or alter your baby boys sexual organs.[/quote]

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