I'm in a grey area for that one, not feeling worse for my medical circumcision, but find it horrendous when 'witchdoctors' practice it on teenagers in my country, killing some every year. Where its worse for women, as a general practice, is that they're stealing pleasure from them.
I think it's interesting that cutting off the untidy bits it is considered a primitive tradition when practiced by non-western countries but never talked about when practiced in the west.
When asked my mother exclaimed, "It was hard enough to breast feed, let alone arguing about that!"
Lacking a point of comparison we don't know whether pleasure was stolen from us as well.
I left it to my son to decide, a choice we didn't have.
Yes.
Male genital mutilation AKA circumcision.
I'm in a grey area for that one, not feeling worse for my medical circumcision, but find it horrendous when 'witchdoctors' practice it on teenagers in my country, killing some every year. Where its worse for women, as a general practice, is that they're stealing pleasure from them.
I think it's interesting that cutting off the untidy bits it is considered a primitive tradition when practiced by non-western countries but never talked about when practiced in the west.
When asked my mother exclaimed, "It was hard enough to breast feed, let alone arguing about that!"
Lacking a point of comparison we don't know whether pleasure was stolen from us as well.
I left it to my son to decide, a choice we didn't have.
The problem here is the primitive handling of it. We've had over 700 boys die from initiation rites the past decade.
Strong list, Mike. Dig up more of your younger self for us
Pimples, love, depression and masturbation - being young is such a mess. But rock ‘n roll was a better escape than becoming a school shooter.
“Jeremy spoke in class todayyyy”