re: John Cleese: “I Prefer Cultures That Don’t Tolerate Female Genital Mutilation”

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But only one is done to permanently remove the ability to feel sexual pleasure.

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Do you honestly not think there is any ramifications for cutting part of your dick off in sexual pleasure. This isn't even going into the trauma inflicted on a baby with forced circumcision. I get it is done for religious purpose and if you are a follower of that then that is fine. But you don't cut off part of your body for hygiene in the possible case you wind up with something later. That's like those gals that cut off their boobs because they may get cancer at some point. If you aren't doing it for religion in the past it was used to mark you a slave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47292307

"Through its absence I can certainly verify it is the most erogenously sensitive area of the penis and male body overall," he wrote.

He felt male circumcision should be known as "male genital mutilation" - a view shared by a growing anti-circumcision movement.

"If someone were to amputate your clitoris you may begin to be able to understand how this feels."

"Where I once had a sexual organ I have now been left with a numb, botched stick," he wrote. "My sexuality has been left in tatters."

He estimated he had been stripped of 75% of the sensitivity of his penis.