As for the males, there are reasons to have a child circumsized. Like for instance with my nephew, my sister opted not to have the proceedure done. But a short six months later it HAD to happen. The fore skin would not stretch over the head of his penis and this caused many problems. And it was not for the lack of my sister trying to give her son the option when he got older either. He would scream every time you went to change his diaper.

There are conditions to have each done and once again it falls into the grey area, do you as parents decide or let your child get older and make the decision? If you wait until they are older how much stress are they going to be under because of their issue? If you choose for your child, did you make the right choice?

I can say that if I had a daughter that had an enlarged clitoris there would be many lab test and so forth that happened before I took a glance at surgery. I also wouldn’t take my daughter back yearly for the stimulation. That could wait until she was older and COMPLETELY understood what was happening and could make that decision for herself.

There would be many hours spent on prayers asking the good Lord to guide me in the right direction. And though I can see the science behind it, I don’t agree with it!

…ok another word: horrible

I’m partly paraphrasing @VioletScreaming from twitter here, and I agree with her: Letting doctors take over the mutilation is flawed logic. The temptation will be there to liken it to the logic of decriminalizing abortion to stop back alley procedures, but pregnancy is actually a medical condition and the mother is perfectly able to give consent (if she’s forced into an abortion, that’s abominable and rightly a crime). Children cannot and would not (unless under duress) consent to genital mutilation. We can’t outsource atrocities to doctors. Education and criminalization of FGM should be implemented and enforced extensively before that extremity is even considered.

And just because male genital mutilation has been the norm for hundreds of years doesn’t make it okay either. Anything that becomes widespread in order to prevent masturbation by lessening sexual sensitivity is something we should all take a good, long look at and then promptly denounce.

This quote from the abstract may be the most chilling of all. Okay, probably not, but still: “Study received medical institution review board approval.”

You’d think at some point a parental instinct of “You’re gonna stimulate her what?” would kick in, but no. We have to go on with the experiment. Ugh.