Please do post the "more mainstream" views. But mainstream or non-mainstream, truth isn't determined by vote. If it was, we'd all be singing the praises of amalgam fillings, and this website would not exist.

While you are at it, I hope you will post the views of some Africans and MIddle Easterners - INCLUDING DOCTORS - on the intact female genitalia. There are millions of men in those parts of the world who won't come close to a woman who has not had a greater or lesser genital alteration (usually at a very young age). They are considered to be good only for prostitution because their "down there" parts are considered filthy and smelly.

Your first link refers to circumcision being beneficial because of the 25% rate of this "elective" surgery. Elected by whom? Not the one who has to endure the procedure and the period of healing (can be up to 2 weeks) and live with the consequences. The circ rate is as high as it is precisely because it is being done to a baby or a small child, who clearly cannot resist or run away. For adult males who wish to be genitally reduced - that's no problem at all, because then it truly is an elective surgery in their case.

Genital surgery is not the tea party your links make it out to be.

Last edited by Carla; 04/08/06 10:59 PM.

Animals feel pain & suffering just as we do, and they value their lives as much as we value ours.