Circumcision #2

[minionofmidas]

No. Female circumcision is mutilation, male circumcision is not.

Exactly. I find it highly disturbing when people refer to male circumcision as "mutilation".

Why do they call it "female circumcision" anyways? Circumcision means "cut once around". Incidentally there are female circumcision practices that are as harmless and symbolic as male circumcision - not the most common practices though - and there are non-harmless, actually mutilating practices for boys. Australian Aboriginals have some pretty fearsome stuff done to their dicks around puberty.

[minionofmidas]

Of course circumcised men don't think it's mutilation because most of the time, they've never lived with a foreskin. It has a purpose. It's easy to say it's not important if you've never had one to begin with.

I think mutilation is too strong a word, but I do find the practice... bizarre and undesirable.

/shrug

What is the purpose?

What's its evolutionary purpose? Not too sure. Maybe to protect the head of the penis and thus to ensure its sensitivity for sex, which results in more pleasurable sex, which means more babies, and thus the survival of the species. That's my hypothesis.

It's as useful as an appendix. But the removal is not as potentially dangerous as that of the appendix.