skippy. wrote on Jun 11^th, 2010 at 4:13pm:


They already offered us sheep and goats for her but we said we wanted cash.

Horrible topic, but there's been a bit of news recently about female circumcision and some doctors believe it should be made legal as they've had quite a few requests for the procedure.

Do we make it legal? We can't blame it as being a cultural mutilation any longer as western females are having it done for cosmetic purposes.

For whatever reason it's being done - culturally it's abhorrent and cosmetically it's masochistic.

As far as female circumcision goes, I don't understand there to be any rational reason behind it. It seems a bit stupid.
Male cicumcision on the other hand has some rationale but it's rather archaic.
I remember it to be an almost shocking realisation when I discovered that it was actually I who is the deformed dick through circumcision, and not those others with their weird looking socks.  
But it's no big deal, I have no desire to recover my lost foreskin. I'm just happy that some lucky motorist got themselves a damned good fanbelt.

In my days it was done automatically to baby boys.
I am glad I was done.
It's good for health reasons - otherwise men get cheese under their foreskin
& terrible infections.
Also - what woman would want to go down on an uncircumcised penis?
There is also undisputed proof that it helps to stop the transfer of HIV AIDS.

Girls should have their labias trimmed if they are really long
otherwise they look like monkeys.
That should be their own personal choice when mature.

" You're not a plastic surgeon by any chance, are you? "

No I'm not.

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I do believe that for males it is more healthy to be circumcised only because males can be pretty lax where personal hygiene is concerned.
However, I sometimes wonder about the "butterfly effect" of such human interverntions when interfering with nature and the long term effects upon the human race.
We probably all know of those kids who have been wrapped in cotton wool all their lives and end up not being able to handle the threats from human and other lifeforms that are out there day in day out, just waiting to pounce on the weakest in the herd.
We might invent ways to be more powerful than dangerous bacteria in the short term, but who knows how strong they are going to get in the future?

Circumcision isn't at all a big deal to me now. I'm glad that it was done, however, if I was left to be of age to make my own decision about it, then I'd fight to my last dying breath to stop it from occurring.

locutius wrote on Jun 13^th, 2010 at 6:32am:


It would be interesting to see an adult male go through this painless procedure without anaesthetic.

You hear so many stories about it being hygienic, but that would depend on the hygiene generally of a male. The foreskin is self cleaning and although most males from my generation appear to be circumcised - for a Generation Y male - it is not common. 

Personally I think circumcision should be a choice to be made once the child has a voice and not inflicted on babies who are completely defenceless.