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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Would you support removing the clitoral hood if everyone did it? Or is it just because everyone does it that you have no problem with it. What if every female infant got a nose job, no anesthetic, low risk of complications. Would that be ok? Why is that different?
What if it was removal of the ear lobe or cutting some skin between the toes?
Circumcision does provide protection for heterosexual males when it comes to HIV/AIDS, however nothing like being vaccinated does/would. And condoms in the US are more effective and generally affordable, unlike in Africa. And heterosexual males are not our biggest concern with the spread of AIDS as it is in Africa.
Parents are not circumcising their children with HIV in mind. Does that make it wrong? Not necessarily, but we can't pretend that it's not a weird cultural thing that we're doing here.
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As I said, I don't think I'd object to a comparable operation. A nose job IMO is more complicated and certainly more risky, with a longer recovery time. That isn't a good comparison. I don't know if the clitoral hood is a good comparison. Would that have the same result? Would it be less painful, and would the recovery time be the same? The same goes for an ear lobe, or cutting skin between the toes, especially as neither of those even have hygiene as a weak defense. But I suppose that no, I wouldn't object to that either were it comparable on the amount of pain, recovery time, risk, etc. and if it were something almost everyone in America chose for their children.
Basically, if it's a societal norm with
little risk of negative effects (both physically and mentally), I don't see the big deal.
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