Female genital mutilation procedure 'hurted a lot,' child says

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78. I don't understand why people feel the need to attack me for saying cutting little kids is wrong

no matter what.

I was merely agreeing that this was terrible and that little boys should not be ignored when addressing these religious rituals with no evidence based medicine to back it up.

So many things are asserted and so much emotional garbage and with the racial/cultural superiority rearing its ugly head, that's the real underlying impetus behind the emotional reactions here.

The only situation where there is some evidence to back up male circumcision is when the prepuce is too tight and does not retract fully, causing pain and other problems. That's it from what I've seen on pubmed. The pediatric organizations lay it out pretty clearly that the reasons are pretty much bull shit, "family tradition", "religious reasons", "personal hygiene" (though this one is pure bull shit). They do it because they always have and as these people in a high emotional dudgeon demonstrate, it's the cultural norm in the US. Many don't even know it's an American thing (when religion isn't specially indicated) for the most part and is not part of normal hospital procedures in the rest of the world, not just the western world.

I know several physicians who are immigrants and had practices and careers in other countries, they were forced to do a certain number of circumcisions here as part of their residency and they were mortified that they had to do this to little babies who were screaming in pain for no earthly reason that their practice history or medical education could justify.

I too am more disturbed by the abuse of women and the reasons why they do it, but I cannot understand how these guys talking about their own genitals and experiences can so freely condemn the parents and the doctors here, who share their outlook on the cultural norms and the personal experience.

It's wrong, it's mutilation, doesn't matter the age, the gender, the religion or the orgasms and why does it keep coming back to orgasms, as if it would be less atrocious if these girls had enough erectile tissue left to achieve them. Like that somehow makes cutting off healthy nerve tissues any more acceptable.