Georgia House Bans Female Genital Piercings
 

ATLANTA - Genital piercings for women were banned by the Georgia House Wednesday as lawmakers considered a bill outlining punishments for female genital mutilation.

The bill would make such mutilation punishable by two to 20 years in prison. It makes no exception for people who give consent to have the procedure performed on their daughters out of religious or cultural custom.

An amendment adopted without objection added "piercing" to the list of things that may not be done to female genitals. Even adult women would not be allowed to get the procedure. The bill eventually passed 160-0, with no debate.


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What is sad is even Democrats voted for it. I guess because the republicans slipped the piercing in with genital mutilation.

I wonder if this is something NOW would get involved in.

Why do GA law makers care if a woman gets a piercing there?

Kinda glad I don't live in GA. ;) :D :p

Lol boy did you reveal alot with out actually saying it. :p

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Maybe they're sexually repressed?

Ain't no shame mang.

Cool Cool. Wish GA law makers felt that way. First it was the evolution crap now this. Hopefully it will fail just like the banning evoultion thing. So they don't embarrass GA anymore.

I was thinking the exact same thing!!!:p

Don't you love how the government steps all over personal rights?? :rolleyes:

God, so many of my friends are going to jail if they ever get found out...

But am I the only one who sees a difference between, say, a clitoridectomy and getting little silver bells hanging from your cooch, cause you like to jingle when you walk?

That's ridiculous. I can see banning that procedure for minors, the mutilation.

But if grown fricing women want to run around with an extra hole, I say go for it.

so what if women in georgia already have them? are they gonna perform strip searches to find them??? :rolleyes:

*sigh* first wardrobe malfunctions... now this.

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The bill here is supposed to ban FGM, which is a very harmful "cultural ritual" done to many girls around the world, and in the US. There are many different forms of female genital mutilation, but often the Clitoris is removed, the outer and inner lips are cut away, and the vaginal opeining is sewn shut.

I highly doubt that anyone over 18 in GA is going to get time for getting a normal piercing down there. Besides, the bill is going back to the chamber because of that addition.

I guess, to a certain extent (and please don't kill me for saying this), good for them. People are getting a little too wild in terms of how they dress and where they pierce anyway. I'm all for doing whatever one wants, since it is a free society, but it's just that some people get a little too crazy. I'm always careful as to how I look, dress, etc. My clothes are never too far off from "badge attire". Generally, my regular casual day clothes are perhaps two or so notches below that. I don't even own real jeans.

ETA: I meant non-athletic clothes I wear in public. I wear whatever when I'm at home or if I'm working out.

I do agree that I have seen some people with multiple piercings and tattoos that are extremely visable and have thought "damn! what was he/she thinking...they look ridiculous!" But as someone with unorthodox piercings and 4 tattoos of my own. I think this is ridiculous. I love my tats, but they are also in places that are not always visible. I know that when I go out intothe work force, having my face tattooed will affect my chance of landing a good job. Picecings can be taken out. Genital piercings are very personal and not visible. People who have them don't walk around dropping their pants for every tom, dick and harry (well I'm hoping they don't but some people are a little crazy ;) )saying, look at my piercing.
What anyone has down there is no ones business. If I had one I wouldn't be sharing the fact that I had one with everyone, so why should it matter what people pierce.

But, who are you to tell a person how to look? If you don't like it, don't look at it. :) I'm like you...I don't dress too funky; but it's all good to me if someone wants to run around with hot pink stripes tatooed all over his/her face!!

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Yeah but you never know, it depends on how the law is worded. There are a lot of laws that are applied to people and situations that the framers of the law didn't intend, but prosecutors (a wierd breed, kind of like hall-monitors-run-rampant) will do so anyway for their own reasons. There are people serving serious jail time for such reasons.

This is my favorite part of the article:


"What? I've never seen such a thing," Heath said. "I, uh, I wouldn't approve of anyone doing it. I don't think that's an appropriate thing to be doing."





I don't know what it is, but I'm gonna ban it anyway!

Hurray for that mindset.

aren't there REAL laws to uphold?

Ha! Just ask all the people in jail for having a little weed in their pockets. You'd think!

I am going to disagree--- maybe some people are a little wild with their piercings and tats-- but so be it. Individuals have every right to adorn their bodies as they so choose. I don't want someone telling me what I can and cannot do--- it is my choice!!!
Yes you said it is a free society but who is to decide what is "too crazy"?
It is my place to decide if my 8 tattoos, piercing, and my stretched earlobes are too much. Granted all but one tat is hidden, the stretched lobes look like thick silver hoops, and the piercing--well only a select few know it is even there--it is not for public display.
But I am able to decide what is right for me, I don't want a lawmaker telling me I can't do something with my body.


-wendi

This law disturbs me on two levels. Although I'm conservative and feel such piercings aren't for ME, if other women want them, it's their choice and it seems ludicrous that a law could prevent it. I can't see it being upheld in the Supreme Court challenges that it is bound to face. STOP TELLING US WHAT TO DO WITH OUR BODIES!! This law could be worded to exclude piercings if they chose to.

On the second level.. why only women? If you're going to outlaw genital piercing, then do it for everybody. Why are women targeted? Aren't their cultural rituals that involve men's genitals too? (I'm fairly certain I've read of them).

Ummm...circumcision??

I think it has to do with the actual place of piercing since women's genital piercing is much closer to FGM than guys' piercings are to circumsicion. In any case, I've heard some people call (male)circumsicion "cruel" as well.

Let's just say male circumcision is like cutting off labia. As far as how close the male piercing is to the female, they are equal. If you think about how genitalia are formed (males and females start out with a nub that either inverts to form a vagina and clitoris or grows out to form a penis) it's the exact same thing. It's just that women are inferior to men 'round these here parts! Right?? Oops...I don't THINK so!! Three cheers for female genital piercings!

Luvz,
pj

Theta Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Well, darn! If Georgia's doing it, Alabama will be right behind, and guess who'll have to move? ;)

If you think that female gential piercing is closer to female genital mutilation than male genital piercing is to circumcision you should check out BMEZine.com

Warning: Some of the photographs are hardcore and may offend some.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
 

Ok, I just checked out this site and OMG!!! If you REALLY want to see something scary, follow these directions:

1) Click on site above
2) Under "Body Piercing Photos/Stories" Click "Female genital"
3) Under the picture click "BME/HARD" (This is pornographic so beware!)
4) Click Enter
5) Click Guys
6) Check out the Thumbnails

OOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHH!!

ITs just a projected Oedipus complex issue.

A bunch of middle-aged men that have always wanted to force their daughters to drop their pants for them. Think about it. No one else is going to be checking but the parents. Even in Georgia you would have law suits galore if "officials" tried Random-Clit-Searches.

This just gives the father's an excuse to partially act out their supressed libidinous desires and demonstrate their ownership.

I can see the scene in the Living room one night already . . . "Drop 'em. . .. who's your Daddy . . .."

That's just disgusting...I would rather look at those pictures than think about this.

They passed the law . . .
its a logical conclusion