You mean genital mutilation?!
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Love how we call it genital mutilation when its girls but we use a religious euphemism when it's boys.
Haha, I don't.. I use the term for both of them.. especially when you notice that the reds on the map is mostly muslim countries, and it's done to boys more than girls ( matter of fact all boys )
here is the thing, ( for me at least ) I wouldn't give a crap, if you let a human do it to themselves as adults, the problem is that they do it to kids, like They're marking cattle or something.. this world is fucked up
Religion is cancer
A lot of shit gets justified BC sky daddy said so...
Female circumcision is far more damaging to the sexual organs than male circumcision and is done with the intent of controlling women. It is a sadistic practice with malice behind it that does far more harm and that is why it is called mutilation.
A comparable practice would be cutting off half the penis instead of just the foreskin.
That is why it is generally referred to as mutilation instead of circumcision, because it is a vastly different thing.
None of this is saying that male circumcision is fine, just that one is far more severe then the other.
Still mutilation. And we should call it what it is.
Both are methods of control, both are based on bronze age religion.
Yes one does more harm, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't use proper terms.
I know it's controversial, but maybe you shouldn't cut anything off another person if they don't ask you to. That ain't your dick. It isn't your right to modify it.
I remember first hearing about it, and was so confused. I thought circumcision was cutting off the tip, because i was circumcised at birth (as usual in the middle east) and didn't know what foreskin was, lol
fuckers took my foreskin, can't have shit in the middle east 😤
Out of all the places I'd expect to see no data on, I wasn't expecting Greenland to be on the list.
Why do they have the UK as yellow in the graphic when the most up to date source on the page has the UK at 20.7%?
Not sure, but by some accounts, circumcision in the UK (outside of religious communities) was mostly a thing among the aristocracy. At one point, they started retaining the services of Jewish mohels who were skilled at it. King Charles III was reportedly circumcised by one.
The US, in contrast, has the weird sexual-hygiene ideas of the Grahams and Kelloggs to credit for its prevalence (supposedly the procedure discourages “self-pollution”, i.e. masturbation). No idea why Australia is orange, as you’d expect the robust Aussies to mercilessly take the piss out of American puritanical hangups.
No idea why Australia is orange
The map is pretty misleading tbh. For Australia, it looks like it's using data from 20 years ago and takes into account the entire population from that period.
For perspective, in 2023 only 2.48% of male children were circumcised.
Personally, the only people I'm aware of who are circumcised were circumcised in a different country before migrating to Australia.
We got lots of religious people who do it. But u don't really hear about all the religious people cos they mind their manners and don't try force their religion upon u like in the states.
I'm torn about this subject.
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No man has ever complained about more of his penis.
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I want women to know it's not going to be sweaty when they put it in thier mouth
Wash your dick
There are no sweat glands under the foreskin.