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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
I don't think a skin flap is equatable to a toe.
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It's a "skin flap" in the same sense your eyelids are just "skin flaps". How does the thought of someone coming and ripping those off your face sound... for no sensible reason? Now imagine that in the single most sensitive area of your body, in fact that skin flap alone has 20 000 functional nerve endings. If anything, the actual act of cutting that skin flap is probably more painful than cutting a toe.
Oh, but it's okay if you're a baby and you'll conveniently forget the mutilation. Sure, people are adaptable. You amputate anything and people learn to live with it. But no one should elect to amputate their child in any sense unless it is vital. And infantile circumcision is anything but vital in the vast majority of cases. Babies also don't have the benefit of painkillers and anesthetics. If you're getting your body part amputated as an adult, I bet you're expecting a steady dose of opiates to numb that pain.
Further, foreskin serves to protect the glans and if you've ever compared a circumcised glans with a glans on an intact penis, one is inherently callused to hell while the other stays in its natural soft state. How do calluses form? It's the baby that has to deal with that constant friction in their diaper on the single most sensitive part of their body, as if they aren't already dealing with enough of the sensory misery that goes with being a baby.
There are many, many disturbing things someone could do to a baby that it will not remember the actual pain of, but that doesn't make it humane to do so. Thinking otherwise is tantamount to saying any sort of molestation is acceptable if roofies were utilized.
If someone wants to chop off a functional, sensitive part of their genitalia - whether that's castration, circumcision, a vasectomy, a sex change, a piercing - they should be able to consent to that decision themselves as adults FFS.
It's not that I'm "passionate" about the topic, it's that the topic makes me cringe in empathetic pain when I'm reminded of it being a thing that inhumane parents would actually do.