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Medieval and barbaric practice with no rational justification - as you say, without informed, adult consent or medical need it should be illegal.
Circumcision (male) without a legitimate medical reason (such as phimosis etc) should be illegal, it's a disgraceful and totally unnecessary thing to perform on a child when it's done simply for religious reasons or tradition, I class it as a form of child abuse. Furthermore, any parents who take their child out of the country elsewhere to have it performed, should be prosecuted when they return to the UK.
And if it upsets religious people - tough, hacking off bits of children's genitals to satisfy some non-existant sky pixie, is something I personally don't think should be something a civiilised society should tolerate.
If people say, "It's my tradition, we've done it for thousands of years, it's unclean" it's no excuse, it's no justification - I don't care who it offends, I want it stopped immediately.
will never be outlawed in this country because that would mean the government having to tell the Jewish community that something they do is not acceptable and they will never go against the zionist overlords...........................
It's always baffled me how it is acceptable to mutilate children's genitals. Religion usually gets a free pass to do things which would otherwise be considered barberic but even weirder is the fact that the majority of males in the US are circumcised for no reason at all.
Well the US thing is sort of religion related too.... it was an anti masturbation thing from the 1930s/40s and masturbation is bad because religion etc...
but we may not have cornflakes without it....................... (unless i have just fallen foul of some urban legend, but i think it is true that that is why Kellogg created cornflakes.)
Does anyone know how its performed in the orthodox jewish community? Its too disgusting to write down.
Why isn't that classed as sexual activity with a child... FFS that's sick. (e: If true.. I'm not Googlging that!)It's bitten off - yum yum
After a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence, the American Academy of Pediatrics found the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks, but the benefits are not great enough to recommend universal newborn circumcision.
According to a systematic and critical review of the scientific literature, the health benefits of circumcision include lower risks of acquiring HIV, genital herpes, human papilloma virus and syphilis. Circumcision also lowers the risk of penile cancer over a lifetime; reduces the risk of cervical cancer in sexual partners, and lowers the risk of urinary tract infections in the first year of life.
“Ultimately, this is a decision that parents will have to make,”
There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%. Three randomized controlled trials have shown that male circumcision provided by well trained health professionals in properly equipped settings is safe. WHO/UNAIDS recommendations emphasize that male circumcision should be considered an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence.
All cultures are equal, you're all just massive far right racists opposed to multiculturalism.
will never be outlawed in this country because that would mean the government having to tell the Jewish community that something they do is not acceptable and they will never go against the zionist overlords...........................
All cultures are equal, you're all just massive far right racists opposed to multiculturalism.
Also I believe WHO actively recommend it in Africa to reduce/prevent HIV transmission.
Views on religion aside:
American Academy of Paediatrics (link)
Also I believe WHO actively recommend it in Africa to reduce/prevent HIV transmission.