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Originally Posted by Chris
That's an interesting approach to the subject, but it very much reflects your own cultural mores. It would be difficult indeed for you to show that a view from the outside such as this could be allowed to over-ride the rights of parents, exercised for millennia, to choose how to bring up their children.
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But the thing is, I'm just reading a forum where circumcised man are complaining about lack of sensation during sex. Why is it right for parents to make this decision for their sons? And why then, is it not right (i.e. specifically
forbidden in some countries) to perform a related procedure on
females
The reality is that we are allowing some of these rituals for no reason other than that we always have, and if someone were to invent it now, we would call it mutilation, because that's what it is: mutilation of a child that has not not consented. Now, i'm not calling for a ban, because a ban would be unworkable and only cause resentment, but I do think it's right people think about what it means for a parent to decide it's alright to remove part of a boy's anatomy.