Female circumcision

[donnashuggy]

It's on now on Insight, not many topics I cannot keep an open mind about but this is one

I had to change the station after 2 minutes

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/17956419892/Insight-Clear-Cut-Fuambai-on-female-circumcision-a

[lionrose.7]

icy got in before me 🙂

[crystal**flake]

Totally against male mutilation too.

[purple_haize]

I think it is an horrific thing to do to little girls, as they said on that show it is a form of child abuse.

Parents shouldnt be allowed to let their little girls be mutilated like that, it is very cruel.

I couldnt watch all of it, found it too distressing.

[kopenhagen5]

Agree crystal, it's not circumcision. And calling it so is a way to justify it.

Male circumcision at least derives for hygienic reasons.

Totally disgraceful.

[katydidthat]

I get your points ... but surely most men would enjoy s-x with women who were untouched?  

Maybe I think this way because I am a woman ... maybe I think this way because once I was in a relationship with a man who was impotent ... 

[lady*em]

They don't care about a woman's pleasure.  All boiled down, it is to stop a woman deriving pleasure so she cannot decide to seek it elsewhere if her husband is a dud in bed.  Convenient for these men.

And male circumcision is mutiliation.  Boys can be taught to clean themselves quite well.  To say it is for hygiene reasons is to suggest males can't be taught to wash themselves.  If they can brush their teeth, they can manage a foreskin.

[nevynreally]

And male circumcision is mutiliation.  Boys can be taught to clean themselves quite well.  To say it is for hygiene reasons is to suggest males can't be taught to wash themselves.  If they can brush their teeth, they can manage a foreskin.

Yes, but it's a tradition from back when hygiene was poor, so at least a little more understandable, though not as acceptable these days, unless for religious reasons.

[katydidthat]

I think it's silly not to care about a woman's pleasure, since that (in my experience) affects the pleasure a male feels. So, yeah, it's about control ... but also shooting oneself in the foot, yes?

I didn't even think about having my son "snipped".   No way.  

[purple_haize]

some boys have to be circumsised for other reasons, health issues as with my grandson.

Had nothing to do with hygiene.........my daughter would have preferred he wasnt done, but she had no choice due to other reasons.

[the_great_she_elephant]

I think it is an horrific thing to do to little girls, as they said on that show it is a form of child abuse.

Parents shouldnt be allowed to let their little girls be mutilated like that, it is very cruel.

I couldnt watch all of it, found it too distressing.

It is illegal in this country and I'm pretty sure if you live in this country it is also illegal to take your daughter overseas to have it done. The problem of course is that if it is done overseas then unless there are complications or the child tells someone outside the family it may well never come to the attention of the authorities.