If you compare all MGC favourably with all FGC, then don't be surprised if men with bad experiences of MGC come along to challenge your comparison, and are annoyed if you try to silence a discussion of MGC that you started. FGC is evil enough in its own right without making an odious comparison. (And so is MGC.)
The site you mention is interesting, but it's not exactly busy, and it is focused on circumcision, when the starting point should be intactness. A list of sites is at http://www.circumstitions.com/links.html#general
Blue Cross Blue Shield covered FGC in the US until 1977. One victim of it, Patricia Robinett, has written a book about her experience, "The Rape of Innocence", which is shortly to come out in a revised form.
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If you compare all MGC favourably with all FGC, then don't be surprised if men with bad experiences of MGC come along to challenge your comparison, and are annoyed if you try to silence a discussion of MGC that you started. FGC is evil enough in its own right without making an odious comparison. (And so is MGC.)
The site you mention is interesting, but it's not exactly busy, and it is focused on circumcision, when the starting point should be intactness. A list of sites is at http://www.circumstitions.com/links.html#general
Blue Cross Blue Shield covered FGC in the US until 1977. One victim of it, Patricia Robinett, has written a book about her experience, "The Rape of Innocence", which is shortly to come out in a revised form.
November 4, 2009 - 3:53pmThis Comment
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