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Old 06-30-2004, 10:44 PM   #48 (permalink)
n0nsensical
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The lawmakers' intent was not to ban people from getting the piercings themselves, it was to ban mutilation. Any sensible person should be against mutilation; the politicians are just ignorant and the bill is worded poorly. They literally did not realize that anyone would want to get a genital piercing and the bill flew through because mutilation is bad, of course. Though I question how much genital mutilation is really going on in the United States, except circumcision which is somehow still acceptable.
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