tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805716.post112904078125600340..comments2024-02-10T08:21:19.099+00:00Comments on Kapitano: Dirty MindKapitanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647896216499813443noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7805716.post-25549494005381943502012-03-25T18:20:55.139+01:002012-03-25T18:20:55.139+01:00Good point about the double standards on male and ...Good point about the double standards on male and female circumcision - but the hypocrisy goes further than you suggest. Most female circumcisions around the world don't target her clitoral glans: they target either her hood (her foreskin) or her labia. In Egypt 8% of FGM removes just the girl's labia...In Indonesia the common cutting practice is to remove just a sliver of her clitoral hood, whereas in Malaysia it is usually just to slit the clitoral hood. This slitting practice (FGM type IVa - which American paediatricians proposed offering to immigrant parents a couple of years ago) is stated by the 2008 interagency statement on FGM to be one of the commonest forms of female genital mutilation around the world.... Notably, the communities who do all these cuts promote them as beneficial in similar ways to the promotion of baby boy circ in the US - prevention of cancer, smegma etc...<br /><br />And here's the interesting thing: a female's intact vulva is much more prone to bacterial, viral or fungal issues than a boy's intact penis. Vulval cancer for example, 2-3 times more common than penile cancer, thrush is very widespread among women... even the bacteria associated with smegma is vastly more common in the labial folds than on the penis. So if the non consensual reduction of genital skin was really a health and safety priority, then logically we would start by lining up the baby girls!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516595845517712069noreply@blogger.com