re: We've got a doctor mutilating little girls' genitals in Detroit

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I guess cutting the umbilical cord is also mutilation to you, right? Fingernails?

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This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I have read today.

Are you implying that, if left alone, the foreskin would eventually fall off like the umbilical cord? And/or that it is made of keratin, like a finger nail, and somehow does not bleed or cause pain when cut correctly?

While the long term effects regarding sexual pleasure may be drastically different, circumcision is basically the same thing, performed for cultural/religious reasons. Though, quite a few studies indicate that a foreskin is more sensitive than a "bare" glans.