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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Wanting your penis removed is self mutilation at its most profound form. Something is wrong with you if you want that. WHAT precisely is wrong with you I don't know, no one does for sure, but it is in fact not even remotely normal.
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Hearkening back to the circumcision thread - this seems to be the complete opposite of what you were arguing there. So which way is it? Is cutting off part of your penis OK, but cutting all of it is wrong?
This is obviously a much larger operation than circumcision - and people still obviously feel the need to do it. We shouldn't be judging their need to do it - we should try to be accepting of their choice.
This is a similar kind of discussion to circumcision, that I know will need to take place, at the appropriate time (i.e when my son says "my penis looks like this, Jimmy's penis looks different. why?)
These school kids are unlikely to see their teachers penis or lack thereof - I think the area that would really need addressing is "why is this teacher dressed as a woman?". As parents, it is our responsibilty to explain things to our children - this world is full of stuff that is outside our usual normality - this is just another of them.