So do you think the mild forms of FGM should be allowed because those are pretty comparable to the male one? Personally I think both should be banned.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month agoReally can’t be overstated how different “female circumcision” is from the male version.
Like comparing ear piercings to ear cropping.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think banning circumcision runs you into many of the same problems that are encountered with banning abortion or gender transition. Or tattoos and ear piercings, for that matter. Or drinking.
You can scare physicians/professionals into refusing to perform it. But then you deal with all the amateurs and their consequences.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Gender transition and abortion are also illegal to do without consent
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re illegal to do with consent.
lena@gregtech.eu 1 month ago
They should both be banned
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Please elaborate on how Type IIa (by World Health Organization standards) differs so greatly.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Please elaborate on how Type IIa
defined as the removal of the labia minora
two hairless, highly sensitive cutaneous folds located within the labia majora, surrounding the vaginal and urethral openings
:-/
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Hmm, since prepuce (foreskin) is a hairless, highly-sensitive cutaneous fold covering and protecting the glans, why is it okay to remove one, but not the other? Or, since they derive from the same zygotic tissue and are homologous, why is it not okay to excise the clitoral hood?
I keep asking these questions, and nobody ever has a good answer, and the only difference that I can divine is that one is okay because it’s done to boys.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t think it is good, but idk if it should be banned. A lot of guys seem ok with it?
If it should be banned, there needs to be a public education push about why.
glimse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Saying they’re the same is bad but comparing circumcision to ear piercing is even worse. Piercings heal, that foreskin is gone forever.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Speak for yourself. My dad gave me mine on my 18th birthday and i planted it in the garden.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You sprout some wood?