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  • Sex changes, female circumcision, & cosmetic vagina surgery

    http://www.slate.com/id/2173262/ OK, those of you who went after me for juxtaposing FGM with sex-reassignment surgery, let's hear your thoughts on this. On the one hand, we have FGM, which the individual submits to (or simply endures) because of family, husband, or cultural pressure, or outright coercion. On the other hand, we have ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Saletan on September 5, 2007

  • Re: An Actual Circumcision

    It's all part of the sick world of people who favor infant circumcision. THEY are the normal, healthy ones. But the people who advocate leaving babies alone and intact, and who point out the inherent sickness of the practice - oh, THEY are the ones with some crazy fetish. It's literally insane.
    Posted to Human Nature by LarsT on August 16, 2007

  • Re: An Actual Circumcision

    Too many people unthinkingly submit their children to this barbarity without even knowing what it entails - every ''grownup'' who would force this on a child should be required to watch this video first. By the way, since when did wanting to prevent children from being genitally mutilated suddenly become a ''fetish''? I call it fighting for human ...
    Posted to Human Nature by eshu21 on August 15, 2007

  • Re: eliminating circumcision

    Why do defenders of circumcision so often characterize opposing arguments with the terms ''rant'' and ''polemic''? There is no reason to paint anti-circumcision advocates as irrational fundamentalists. It is part of the inherent insanity of the practice. Those who advocate leaving infant boys alone, and not cutting their bodies without any ...
    Posted to Human Nature by LarsT on August 14, 2007

  • Re: Why is it so unreasonable to just wait...

    rampart: At least cut penises are better looking than uncut ones. You never have to worry about smegma. I would bet women are grateful for that, too. . Do you always advocate for plastic surgery that reduces the size of male genitals? That is the most patently ridiculous argument for cutting I've ever heard. And as far as ''smelling'', ...
    Posted to Human Nature by LarsT on August 14, 2007

  • Re: eliminating circumcision

    Sure, an adult over 18 can choose. No one should have one done who cannot consent to it. Period. End of story. We don't allow female circ in this country. And what right does anyone have to tell a man his own cutting is less extreme than female circ. Think for a minute. Why does the ONLY surgery we routinely perform on infants involve... the ...
    Posted to Human Nature by LarsT on August 14, 2007

  • An Actual Circumcision

    I dare ANYONE to watch this and tell me this practice is acceptable. It is unbelievably barbaric, cruel, and psychologically sick. I also urge anyone with a friend considering having their children cut to watch this video. http://youtube.com/watch?v=XmX6RdRNoqk
    Posted to Human Nature by LarsT on August 14, 2007

  • Re: eliminating circumcision

    I'm going to re-post a comment from a couple of weeks ago regarding male circumcision, because for some reason that earlier posting behaved oddly (the number of listed viewings declined with time). -------------------- As a biologist, I find the debate about whether male circumcision is damaging to be frankly bizarre. Like every other part of ...
    Posted to Human Nature by songster on August 14, 2007

  • Circumcision and reporters

    Circumcision is simply wrong. Saletan has a long history of approving this barbarism - perhaps that's why he reported the least compelling study of genital sensation (the Kim research, studying only two points on the penis, neither of which was on the foreskin) but totally ignores the far more thorough Van Howe study (which found that, of the 19 ...
    Posted to Human Nature by eshu21 on August 6, 2007

  • circumcision, biology, and medicine

    As a biologist, I find the debate about whether circumcision is damaging to be frankly bizarre. Like every other part of the body, the genitalia have been shaped by strong selective pressures. Circumcision removes a substantial chunk of highly innervated genital tissue, so of course there are effects on sexual function and sensation. This fact has ...
    Posted to Human Nature by songster on August 2, 2007
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