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Originally Posted by chedder
In seeing these posts about the details of the nerves in the foreskin I learned something, which is why this community is great. What I was more getting at is some posters desire to preach and be judge and jury seemingly to incite or put down others opinions or beliefs. Interestingly my dad (late 60's) is not circumcised and I (early 40's) am. My thoughts are it was the thing to do at the time rightly or wrongly. I don't believe my parents wanted to deprive me of sexual pleasure nor do I feel like my pleasure is diminished. I think they just felt it was cleaner. I don't know what i would have chosen had I had boys but i have daughters. And no I don't think female circumcision is cool and don't think the comparison is even remotely apt. In reading about it the two are very different and I think calling female 'mutilation' is correct but think the term doesn't really fit what happens to a male. Here's a good unbiased link.
http://thecircumcisiondecision.com/m...-circumcision/ |
The point (in my mind) was that the two examples are performed with the same lack of a compelling reason to do so. Yet we permit/promote one, and the other is a terrible thing (it is).