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

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81. So you agree with me, since that is literally what I said and nothing more.

It is actually the same procedure as genital mutilation on females, it's just the histologically analogous tissue in males, performed at a younger age.

That's it.

i wasn't trying to compare the two, the latter is more disturbing to me if only because of the reasons they do it, and the way they do it in other countries.

Putting into a hospital setting as this woman did, doesn't make it any better and it find appalling that people think that if sexual function is preserved to some degree that makes it somehow less an atrocity.


I don't see why people keep making it into a context, other than the cultural bias in the US, and the vague notion that if it's a doctor performing it in a clinical setting and the trauma is not recalled, that it's okay.

That's kind of what literally happened here, and it's still repugnant. Americans may not understand why they're the same medically and histologically since there is some sort of bias that if the person doing something is wearing scrubs and a face mask in a professional manner, that it's somehow fine. That's not how we should be looking at things, and we need acknowledge the bias here.

It should NOT be controversial to say that mutilating small children is a bad thing and no one should be going into discussions about how the degree of sexual function is what matters here, or the racism that seeps out with the condemnation that people should as one poster put it, "stay in their own country if they want to practice this barbarism" but that barbaric procedure is good because he had it, he's fine, and it happened in a HOSPITAL.

It's insane.