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Tangle of Toy ([info]funkyhelix) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-01-09 16:45:00


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Remember when we were talking about vaginas?

This whole thing is probably not safe for work.

Over at Metafilter, a post about a doctor getting away with performing Female Genital Mutilations gets derailed by some of the guys coming in wanting to talk about their circumcisions and how traumatizing the practice is. There's complaining in thread about this, and we all troop over to Metatalk to bitch at length about everyone's penis.

Then the user spacediver comes in and... Oh hell, I'll just give you a sample of his comments.

"Quite simply, we do not accord even close to the same respect to male sexual anatomy, as we do to female sexual anatomy." That's right. It's all about the vaginas!

"In fact, i'd say that male genital cutting is more relevant to this case than is female genital cutting, since the medical establishment plays a much bigger role in the former." Okay, let's think about this. Male circumcision is more relevant to a case about female genital mutilation how?

"...many women who are circumcised feel exactly the same way about their bodies. They don't think they're missing anything..." It's like those old coffee commercials. Today we've replaced her vagina with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if she can tell the difference.

The regulars respond in their usual way.

"I've also heard that intact males can actually hear the choruses of Angels singing in Heaven and that their stools are gigantic and have no more odor than a hot biscuit." - Divine_Wino

"[T]hey can also fly to Spain using their foreskins as hot air balloons and only the flatulence of the Gods to stay aloft." - jonmc

Indeed.



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[info]nicolae
2007-01-10 12:01 am UTC (link)
Semi-related personal anecdote:

I have a friend from college who, over the summer, was had a...genital operation. I don't like to call it genital mutilation because she decided to do it, but basically she had a cut made in the clitoral hood, which is a tradition in her culture. (Her family is African, and I can't remember where they're from...I want to say Mali?) Anyway, that's totally different from clitoral removal, but she said it didn't hurt that much, and her boyfriend says she comes just fine.

/tmi

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[info]luthe
2007-01-11 08:25 pm UTC (link)
See, that kind of thing is reasonable. It sounds no worse than getting your clit pierced (an idea that has me crossing my legs). Of course, there was fun stuff like "informed consent" and "voluntary procedure" and also "SMALL CUT."

Carry on.

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