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skullnxroads:

FORESKIN IS AMAZING AND YOU SHOULDN’T CUT IT OFF OF ANYONE BUT A CONSENTING ADULT

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this is one of the sex positive issues that really bothers me (well…let’s be real, they all do).  i would never dream of surgically modifying my child’s genitals before they could speak or comprehend what is happening to them.  i don’t understand how or why people are so chill with  violating people’s basic right to their own body.  every argument i’ve heard put forth for nonconsensual removal of a part of a baby’s penis is based on ignorantbs.

i hope one day people will use their brains and leave the penises alone.

It can become a health risk. You can ask my mother, who has been a nurse for over twenty years about little old men who aren’t circumsiced, and how painful it is when she has to pull back their foreskin to wipe them. It’s not a problem when you’re younger, but as you get older, it can be. Not to mention the high risk of urinary track infection, which was not mentioned in the vid, and infections in general which endangers their life. There’s a reason it’s done, and I don’t think it has much to do with social cues. Though that is of course an opinion.

I don’t really know what to say to that.  People are almost always going to be in pain when they get older.  But is the absence of just one of many aches and pains in the last couple years of your life worth the personal violation of having a very sensitive part of your body removed without your consent?  As for the health risks, teaching people to clean themselves and exercise safe sex seems a much more reasonable solution than removing a bunch of sensitive nerve endings.

Laci has another video in which she makes the point that female genital mutilation is illegal in the United States, but male genital mutilation is not.  She also mentions a proposed bill to ban circumcision, and while it can be argued that FGM includes the entirety of the pleasure organ while MGM does not, the point of contention is a person’s right to their own body, not the quantified value of their physical experience with their genitalia.  If an individual deems it necessary to be circumcised once they have been informed of the health risks, then that’s fine, but let it be their choice rather than something they can grow to resent their parents for.

(via pepperjinks)