Comments by "Adrian" (@HiAdrian) on "Performing Surgery to Reverse FGM (Excerpt from ‘The Cut That Heals’)" video.

  1. Dude, we were only talking about routine infant circumcision, an extremely common practice in the United States and South Korea. Nobody is saying anything about adults making an informed choice. Once legally adult, people can get a circumcision, labiaplasty, tattoos, piercings, anything they want. That's not the issue at all.
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  2. Eowyn Eadig Your analogy is lacking and so is the way you present the opposition (as if they said FGM isn't terrible) If baby boys in the United States got their pinkies amputated as a routine hospital procedure, and girls in Sudan got their eye-balls cut out as a religious/cultural ritual, we would of course first tend to the problems at home, even though our boys can grow up to lead satisfying lives without their pinkies. That is the crux of the argument.
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  3. .:J.M.Concept:. Are you the CEO of Foreskin Restorations Inc. or something? "Cutting this skin off isn't a bad idea at all, because as an adult you can undergo a lengthy procedure of stretching your skin to immitate what you lost." That's how silly you sound. You didn't address my criticism and even seem to be pro-circumcision. I hope you got circumcised as an adult, otherwise your point of comparison is pretty moot.
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  4. .:J.M.Concept:. From your link "Despite the name "restoration" or "reconstruction," it is not possible to actually restore a lost foreskin. A natural foreskin contains specialized nerve endings, muscles and blood vessels that are necessary for normal sexual function and sensation. While to some degree these functions can be recreated, once the original tissue is cut off and thrown away, it can never be fully recovered." I have are hard time believing it's much more than a cosmetic result. Your argument that circumcision is therefore not mutilation is pretty silly and since you wanted your foreskin back, how about you stop downplaying the procedure, so that other boys don't grow up with the same issue?
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  5. .:J.M.Concept:. Fair enough. I don't consider it on the same level either, but one is done by the millions in the civilized world, the other in small numbers in primitive third-world backwaters. If people in the west tattooed their children ("he's a Yakuza child"), I would find it equally misguided them to obsess over FGM without first pushing for laws against this transgression at home. I'm glad it's very rare in Europe and the Jews and Muslims are increasingly getting in trouble for it, but it can't happen soon enough on U.S. soil as well.
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