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Circumcision: Boys
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Stefan Ivarsson maintains that the same reasoning the government uses to criminalize FGM-ritual practice that destroys an essential body part-must ... be applied to male circumcision/mutilation. The differential treatment should be regarded as discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as on grounds of (accident of) birth and religion. "When we pass a law protecting the physical integrity of girls we can't exclude boys. All children regardless of sex, religion, race, skin colour, or any other accident of birth have the same right to legal protection."
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Mostly circumcision is done in the early part of the life to get rid of pain. Its generally done when a baby is newly born. Most the boys in U.S. are circumcised while on the other hand most of the guys from non- Jewish families are not circumcised. Of course Circumcision is entirely a personal decision whether it should be done or not.
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Billy Ray Boyd lectures and faciliates workshops on the topic of male circumcision. He founded The Victims Speak in the 1980s, which provided a model for the present-day National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM). He teaches at City College of San Francisco, and is the author of For the Vegetarian in You.
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The circumcision of girls is given much more attention than the circumcision of boys, and is far more severely criticized. In the dominant opinion of the modern world, male circumcision is generally accepted or ignored, while female circumcision has become a horror term, described as a form of mutilation, and linked to sexual discrimination, injustice, the suppression of women in society, and associated with ignorance, poverty and superstition. True as this is, female circumcision must be understood as an extreme measure, supported and carried out by the women of the tribe, to safeguard girls from becoming sexually active before they are married. This principle of guiding and guarding girls to the altar is... also a corner stone of modern sexual morality, so female circumcision also reflects on the underlying beliefs of the critics. In other words, indignation about female circumcision could be the pot calling the kettle black.
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Via TwinCities.com:The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a mother who didn't like the way her baby's circumcision looked cannot sue a Fridley hospital for medical malpractice. Dawn Nelson sued Unity Hospital and Dr. Steven Berestka, claiming the doctor removed "the most erogenous tissue" after the boy was born on Jan.
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"A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anæsthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed." ~ Dr John Harvey Kellogg, Plain facts for old and young: embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life, 1877
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