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Most African Female Circumcision (FGM) is the removal of the clitoral hood and labia and NOT the clitoris. All FGM is heinous and bad, but the normal version (labia and clitoral hood) is pushed for the same hygiene and disease reasons that male circumcision is pushed here in the US. A Tanzania study says labia and clitoral hood removal lowers HIV risk by over 50% for women (IMO BS) and women with labia and clitoral hood removal say the sex is fine and they get orgasms and want to do the procedure to their daughters - just as US male MGM victims want to have their sons cut. The arguments and sexual mutilation are in parallel, but many people in the US are only against the US version. That is an unacceptable sexist and and culturally biased position.

Also, the sexual damage done to men in the US is actually much worse than the labia/clitoral hood removal. The foreskin is not just skin and does not just protect the glans(head). Circumcision is ablates the most sensitive parts of the male genitals. This surgery takes away the main male pleasure zones with over 20000 fine touch and stretch nerve endings amputated. The foreskin has several parts including the ridged band that is great for ones pleasure (that is why nutters like Kellogg wanted to chop em off, to curtail masturbation), Masturbation is important for men's physical and mental health. The ridged band directly contacts the vagina for very great pleasure all around. The dynamics of sex and the actual mechanism of the penis are drastically changed by circumcision. The foreskin can normally be slipped all the way, or almost all the way, back to the base of the penis, and also slipped forward beyond the glans. This wide range of motion is the mechanism by which the penis and the orgasmic triggers in the foreskin, frenulum, and glans are stimulated

The only touch organ possessing as rich erogenous innervation as the foreskin is the clitoris. Circumcision deprives man of 2/3ds of the main erogenous zone constituted of the foreskin and the glans.

All GM is heinous, particularly if done to humans without their consent or understanding. It is not reasonable to justify one practice by saying male circ somehow is not as bad or not comparable. All removal of erogenous tissue without consent is bad and should be stopped. Speaking up against what is done in Africa, while MGM contiunes here is not at all reasonable.

November 4, 2009 - 10:54am

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