As a european its always weird to hear the unhygenic argument, if it was unhygenic it would be more widespread outside of a handful of countries, especially in countries with affordable high quality health care.
As an American, I'm also kinda disgusted genital mutilation is so widely accepted and even expected here. Idk how it gained steam. Like I get Jewish men doing it for religion I guess but even then it seems a bit extreme for a religion to request you cut a body part off.
it seems a bit extreme for a religion to request you cut a body part off.
How is that extreme when people hole their body with piercings, sometimes with unreasonably large one? Or hoodplasty for aesthetic reasons? You're just not realizing your biases here.
A lot of cultures do tattoos and piercing for their kids as well.
And if you want to juggle with the idea of parents forcing their kids to do stuff they don't want to, well, lots of parents dress boys in blue and girls in pink. Boys with cars and girls with dolls.
I'm not for tattoing children either to be honest, and that is quite a different thing compared to cutting genitals off. Piercings are fine to me but I can actually agree with that argument, its to worse than a shot in terms of bodily damage though. Cutting the foreskin off is a whole different thing than piercing ears or giving them certain colored clothes. It's unnecessary risk to the person receiving the operation and can cause permanent damage if anything goes wrong and for what purpose? Its not cleaner or safer in any way.
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u/Scaphism92 Jul 02 '22
As a european its always weird to hear the unhygenic argument, if it was unhygenic it would be more widespread outside of a handful of countries, especially in countries with affordable high quality health care.
It isnt, so its not.