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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	mmanurere 2007-01-10 08:54 am UTC (link)
	More medical conditions should have alliterative names. (...and how little familiarity would a guy have to have with his own anatomy to confuse the foreskin connection area with the glans?) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hobbitsexual
2007-01-10 08:59 am UTC (link)

it's almost too humorous a name to be taken seriously, yet it is the cause of much anxiety in many men who think they have an STI!

look, one of the main reasons i advocate circumcision for men is that so many men are just completely ignorant of their sexual organs, what goes on down there, what's normal and what isn't, and afraid or embarrassed of seeking advice or treatment and there's this hysteria surrounding male circumcision now that i feel is really unwarranted.

and i hate it when people make FGM topics about male circumcision, which i have just successfully done! for shame.

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	mmanurere 2007-01-10 05:30 pm UTC (link)
	Well, much of the wank was about people equating the two, and so far we've been pretty good at reinforcing with every comment the fact that the two are really not even comparable. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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