Do You Believe In Gender Equality?

[MotherNurture]

Fact: Healthy, normal males and females are both born with a foreskin or "prepuce". The sheath of skin covering the penis and the clitoral hood are anatomically analogous structures that protect the glans (glans penis and glans clitoris, respectively), keeping their surface smooth, thin, slightly moist, glossy, rich in color, and ultra-sensitive.

Fact: The most common form of male circumcision removes the male prepuce, the foreskin.

Fact: The most common form of female circumcision (sunna) removes the female prepuce, the clitoral hood.

Both are chosen electively by some parents for personal, cultural, cosmetic, or religious reasons or because of perceived health benefits---although no major medical organization on the planet recommends routine circumcision of either gender for any reason.

Fact: There has been a worldwide movement to abolish medically unnecessary genital cutting done on female children.
It has been criminalized in all forms in many countries around the globe.

Do you believe in gender equality?

Can you objectively look outside of your own cultural conditioning?

If so, do you believe:

A.) Non-consentual prepuce amputation of male and female children done without clear, pressing medical indications in accordance with parental wishes for personal, cultural, cosmetic, or religious reasons or for perceived health benefits should be universally banned.

B.) Non-consentual prepuce amputation of male and female children done without clear, pressing medical indications in accordance with parental wishes for personal, cultural, cosmetic, or religious reasons or for perceived health benefits should be universally legal.

Thank you for sharing your answers, reactions, and reflections.

Jen

[mum33]

i am against circumcision of any kind and agree with A

[mumofcaleb]

i am against circumcision of any kind and agree with A

I strongly agree

[kiah]

It gives me the shivers....just the thought of it

[Pobblebonk]

I agree with A.

And before I would even consider modifying my children, I'd put myself through it first, so I wouldn't be a walking contradiction...

[Aquamarine]

Yes I believe in gender equality.

Everyone should have the right to decide what happens to their own bodies.

[Billy]

I strongly agree with A

[our little treasures]

Yes I believe in gender equality.

Everyone should have the right to decide what happens to their own bodies.

I agree!

[mum to 2 angels]

i agree with a. I wouldnt be happy if i woke up with half of my genitals cut off. My sister wanted to get her son done but apparently its not covered under medicare anymore. GREAT.

[MotherNurture]

Thanks for the responses so far.

I'm curious as to why, with all of the circumcising parents that visit this board, not one poster has suggested female prepuce amputation should be legal.

It's rather surprising, given the perception of foreskin as 'just a piece of extra skin'.

Little girls (future women) don't really *need* a protective covering for their clitorises, do they?

If the surface of the clitoris dries and thickens, they'll never know what they're missing, would they?

Clitoral hood removal (sunna circumcision) wouldn't affect procreation or the sensitivity of the g-spot.

Jen