Charlatan

I don't think you should be offended at all. Perhaps over the term abuse, but not over the term mutilation. Under a strict definition, this is what has been done to those of us who have been circumcised. We have had the natural appearance of our penises altered.

This is, under a relatively strict definition, mutilation. The negative connotation wafts away when we understand that this form of mutilation is socially acceptable.

While some will cry abuse and blame parents, I am not sure this is the right approach. My beleif is that it is an entirely uneccessary proceedure with no significant benefits. That our acceptance of it has more to do with socialization than anything else.

I don't blame my parents for anything. They made the right choice for themselves at that time. Some parents continue to make these choices.

I don't agree with them but so it goes.


Again, I personally feel there is a big difference between most of the decisions we as parents make for our kids and something like circumcision. Perhaps this is just me though.

Again, the choice you made with your daughter is different. Her fused labia was not a "natural" state. The natural vagina is not fused. You opted to repair a problem thereby giving her full and proper use of her genitals.

Circumcision takes something natural and alters it to something that is not.

I can't address your comment about making you suffer. It certainly is not my place to point fingers and make anyone suffer for their past actions. In fact I've tried to avoid doing just this.

I am sorry if you feel that anything I wrote made you intentionally upset.

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