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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Saying they’re the same is bad but comparing circumcision to ear piercing is even worse. Piercings heal, that foreskin is gone forever.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Speak for yourself. My dad gave me mine on my 18th birthday and i planted it in the garden.

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You sprout some wood?

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gender transition and abortion are also illegal to do without consent

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re illegal to do with consent.

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• lena@gregtech.eu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They should both be banned

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• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please elaborate on how Type IIa (by World Health Organization standards) differs so greatly.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

    :-/

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    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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