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The legislators who voted on this were attempting to outlaw female genital mutilation. To allow “consensual” mutilation would be pointless – look at battered women.
They are not conversant with truly consensual piercing. Piercing (to them) looked like just one flavor of the despicable mutilation they were criminalizing.
And it was not intended to be sexist. It absolutely did not occur to them that a guy might get pierced… there.
Their hearts were in the right place. And if you want to get a smile out of this, just imagine one of them learning about this issue. “Now wait. Let me get this straight. People actually take … sharp things … and … !! Wait a minute, I got to think on this. Are these the same liberal college kids who think we shouldn’t stick worms with hooks, bless their soft lil’ hearts? And you meant they will… wow. Just... WOW.”
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