Circumcision rant

[dalekboy]

In one of my recent posts, I mentioned that circumcising a child for reasons that are not solidly medical or religious is something that should be thought about in terms of what the child may prefer, not what you want.

Someone pulled me up on this, saying that they consider mutilation because of religion a bad reason for doing it.

Comments

[drjon]

To compare male and female circumcision isn't really fair: in the vast majority of cases, the male equivalent of what's called "female circumcision" would amount to severing the entire foreskin and glans off down to the corpora cavernosa, and then pushing what's left of the shaft into the pubis and stitching it up.

It's also worth mentioning that male circumcision is usually a scriptually-mandated religious procedure; whereas female circumcision is, to the best of my knowledge, a culturally-mandated one.

[angriest]

This was my thought - although I'm still not in favour of male circumcision.

[drjon]

And you won't see any opinion either way in my initial comment.

[angriest]

Is that because you don't have one, or you didn't feel like sharing it? Just curious.

[drjon]

Having opinions on matters that don't concern me is a waste of my time.

On the other hand, sharing opinions on controversial subjects in an open forum is a surefire way of having my time wasted as well.

In fact, I'm going to go back to work now. Ciao.