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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have issues with the claim "religious intolerance."  There are areas around the world where some groups of people circumcise girls in the name of religion, and people call it genital mutilation.

Religious tolerance is one thing, but I think there are some practices done in the name of religion that should be questioned because they involve altering a child's (who is unable to consent) genitalia irreversibly.[/quote]
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Equating circumcision with female genital mutilation is nuts. They aren't remotely the same thing. One is done as a covenant with God (and for health reasons) while the other is to punish and control women to inhibit their sexual pleasure.

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Yes. They are not comparable. Stop comparing them.[/quote]

Not PP but in cultures where this is done to women, they will say [i]the same thing[/i].  It is a covenant with god and it is done for health reasons.  Also, female circumcision ranges from a pin prick (much less invasive than male) to cutting the hood of the clitoris (directly comparable because the foreskin is the male equivalent of the clitoral hood) to cutting off and stitching up most of the genitalia (much more extreme).  This is fact.

Also, I suggest you read up on the history of routine circumcision and you will find that it too was done to inhibit sexual pleasure of boys in prudish Victorian times.

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