Mother...
Every woman who has her child circumcised should be more than willing to have herself circumcised as well. Many, many women are circumcised the world over-- yes, even in these modern times. Removing the labia and clitoral hood is no different than removing the foreskin. It would, after all, be "cleaner" and less prone to infection, just like a male circumcision. It would remove far less tissue.
I realize that female circumcision is regarded with shock and revulsion in the USA, but I don't really understand why we make any such distinction. The structures, while different in appearance, are anatomically analogous. So why is a labia sacred while our foreskin is regarded as disgusting and disposable? Can you even begin to answer that?
Any excuse to modify another human being's sexual organs is cruel and ignorant. Any evidence to the contrary falls apart upon even a moment of thoughtful scrutiny. 90% of the world population is uncircumcised-- and get this, they're actually HEALTHIER than we are, with much reduced rates of STD, HIV and cancer.
Maybe it's because we men are victimized as children. We cannot object because we have no voice, and when we grow old enough to understand, we only know a vague sense of discontent, with no idea from whence it originates. It's so easy to assault a victim when it is done "for our own good"... especially when we are weak and voiceless and unable to say, "Please, stop, I don't want this, you're hurting me."
Do you think you could take me now and tie me down and cut off a huge chunk of my penis, now that I can scream, "Stop, Mother! Please! I'm begging you! Why are you doing this? I don't want this to be done to me!" Could you hold the knife in your fingers? Could you stand to feel my blood on your hands? When I learned what had been done to me and why I had always felt so dissatisfied, I screamed that very thing, over and over in my head. I could not scream it aloud, because we men are trained to never complain, but I screamed it in my head, and yes, I did cry, alone and in private... and you were not there to comfort me... you will never know that pain because I cannot bring myself to tell you how I feel. I will never admit it out loud. The horror gets caught, like a lump, inside my chest. I'm afraid it would hurt you... and you know I could never hurt you.
Your 1 in a 1000 UTI rate comes at the cost of a 10 in 100 complication rate, which includes such horrible things as excessive bleeding, agonizing pain, degloving, necrosis, nerve damage, excessive scarring, skin bridges, loss of sensitivity... and well, the list goes on. I hate to inform you that I myself have suffered many of these things and more... in silence... in private... as you should know.
Finally, as a man who restored his foreskin, I know what sex is like both cut and intact. Let me assure you with complete and total honesty, that circumcision robs of man of an unbelievable amount of sexual pleasure. By circumcising your children, you have destroyed the complete and whole men they might have grown up to be. You are greedily enjoying something they will never know: your entire sexual capacity and wholeness. You will never know how long and hard I worked to regain what was so casually taken away. The hours, the months, the years of frustration, impatience, the incremental victories and depressing setbacks, and all the while knowing that it will never be perfect, it will never be whole, it will never be natural... and that it was all completely avoidable, if only you had given it a moment of thought.
Do you even think of us as human beings... or do you think of us as dogs, to have our ears clipped and our tails bobbed at your discretion? I say we are human-- babies, boys, men-- and we deserve all the same rights that you enjoy. We share the same feelings of love and hate, the same humor and sadness, the same soul and intellect. The only thing we currently do not possess, which you do, is the constitutional right to an intact body. The choice to circumcise should and must become solely the right of the OWNER of the penis and NO ONE ELSE! You did not have the right to take away the source of my pleasure, intimacy and satisfaction. You did not have the right to cut my flesh and make it as you saw fit. Your choice affected my body, my spirit, my self-esteem, my confidence and my sexual fulfillment. I am a human being, not an animal. I was your child, not your plaything. I'm sorry but you hurt me more than any other person possibly could.
Every woman who has her child circumcised should be more than willing to have herself circumcised as well. Many, many women are circumcised the world over-- yes, even in these modern times. Removing the labia and clitoral hood is no different than removing the foreskin. It would, after all, be "cleaner" and less prone to infection, just like a male circumcision. It would remove far less tissue.
I realize that female circumcision is regarded with shock and revulsion in the USA, but I don't really understand why we make any such distinction. The structures, while different in appearance, are anatomically analogous. So why is a labia sacred while our foreskin is regarded as disgusting and disposable? Can you even begin to answer that?
Any excuse to modify another human being's sexual organs is cruel and ignorant. Any evidence to the contrary falls apart upon even a moment of thoughtful scrutiny. 90% of the world population is uncircumcised-- and get this, they're actually HEALTHIER than we are, with much reduced rates of STD, HIV and cancer.
Maybe it's because we men are victimized as children. We cannot object because we have no voice, and when we grow old enough to understand, we only know a vague sense of discontent, with no idea from whence it originates. It's so easy to assault a victim when it is done "for our own good"... especially when we are weak and voiceless and unable to say, "Please, stop, I don't want this, you're hurting me."
Do you think you could take me now and tie me down and cut off a huge chunk of my penis, now that I can scream, "Stop, Mother! Please! I'm begging you! Why are you doing this? I don't want this to be done to me!" Could you hold the knife in your fingers? Could you stand to feel my blood on your hands? When I learned what had been done to me and why I had always felt so dissatisfied, I screamed that very thing, over and over in my head. I could not scream it aloud, because we men are trained to never complain, but I screamed it in my head, and yes, I did cry, alone and in private... and you were not there to comfort me... you will never know that pain because I cannot bring myself to tell you how I feel. I will never admit it out loud. The horror gets caught, like a lump, inside my chest. I'm afraid it would hurt you... and you know I could never hurt you.
Your 1 in a 1000 UTI rate comes at the cost of a 10 in 100 complication rate, which includes such horrible things as excessive bleeding, agonizing pain, degloving, necrosis, nerve damage, excessive scarring, skin bridges, loss of sensitivity... and well, the list goes on. I hate to inform you that I myself have suffered many of these things and more... in silence... in private... as you should know.
Finally, as a man who restored his foreskin, I know what sex is like both cut and intact. Let me assure you with complete and total honesty, that circumcision robs of man of an unbelievable amount of sexual pleasure. By circumcising your children, you have destroyed the complete and whole men they might have grown up to be. You are greedily enjoying something they will never know: your entire sexual capacity and wholeness. You will never know how long and hard I worked to regain what was so casually taken away. The hours, the months, the years of frustration, impatience, the incremental victories and depressing setbacks, and all the while knowing that it will never be perfect, it will never be whole, it will never be natural... and that it was all completely avoidable, if only you had given it a moment of thought.
Do you even think of us as human beings... or do you think of us as dogs, to have our ears clipped and our tails bobbed at your discretion? I say we are human-- babies, boys, men-- and we deserve all the same rights that you enjoy. We share the same feelings of love and hate, the same humor and sadness, the same soul and intellect. The only thing we currently do not possess, which you do, is the constitutional right to an intact body. The choice to circumcise should and must become solely the right of the OWNER of the penis and NO ONE ELSE! You did not have the right to take away the source of my pleasure, intimacy and satisfaction. You did not have the right to cut my flesh and make it as you saw fit. Your choice affected my body, my spirit, my self-esteem, my confidence and my sexual fulfillment. I am a human being, not an animal. I was your child, not your plaything. I'm sorry but you hurt me more than any other person possibly could.
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It makes me sooo happy that I left my sons intact, because it means that they will never write me a letter like that! 
