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Xerxys · 06-01-2009, 01:27 PM

Well,

I was born in Africa, Kenya. They circumcise at various stages of adolescense as some sort of symoblic gesture of intitiation into adulthood. What's funny is, even the stupid adults don't regard you as an adult anyway. Thus begun my hatred for old assholes. I degress..

I was actually looking forward to the process. It was a) the in thing, kinda like a fad that's been running for the last couple hundred years and b) made you anticipate the manly feeling that is ~uncut~!! Really my parents only let me go through the process because I asked them to and it had little or no risk. You see, we have hospitals and clinics

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Initiation is done mainly when your through with class 8. (mostly at 14 but sometimes later days of 13) By the time you get to Form 1 (after class 8) your regarded a non infant and capable of taking care of yourself. (How I started listening to Dido I don't know!!!)

Up to today I still don;t have a good reason for circumcision and levite summed it up well. Modification and not mutilation is the difference.

The horror stories related to circumcision in Africa crompsin speaks of happen to what? 5 people yearly? All these people are nomads and traditional herders who have lived like that since their oldest alive person can remember. Even female genital mutilation (FGM) is frouned upon. It no longer happens unless of course you're in the back of the backwards countries in Somalia or Sudan. The act in Kenya is illegal.

As far as this being mutilation, nope, not really.

06-01-2009, 01:27 PM	#51 (permalink)
Xerxys Junkie Location: My head.	Well, I was born in Africa, Kenya. They circumcise at various stages of adolescense as some sort of symoblic gesture of intitiation into adulthood. What's funny is, even the stupid adults don't regard you as an adult anyway. Thus begun my hatred for old assholes. I degress.. I was actually looking forward to the process. It was a) the in thing, kinda like a fad that's been running for the last couple hundred years and b) made you anticipate the manly feeling that is ~uncut~!! Really my parents only let me go through the process because I asked them to and it had little or no risk. You see, we have hospitals and clinics . Initiation is done mainly when your through with class 8. (mostly at 14 but sometimes later days of 13) By the time you get to Form 1 (after class 8) your regarded a non infant and capable of taking care of yourself. (How I started listening to Dido I don't know!!!) Up to today I still don;t have a good reason for circumcision and levite summed it up well. Modification and not mutilation is the difference. The horror stories related to circumcision in Africa crompsin speaks of happen to what? 5 people yearly? All these people are nomads and traditional herders who have lived like that since their oldest alive person can remember. Even female genital mutilation (FGM) is frouned upon. It no longer happens unless of course you're in the back of the backwards countries in Somalia or Sudan. The act in Kenya is illegal. As far as this being mutilation, nope, not really.