Just some random rants

[El Mayo]

The claws, while useful in the wild, don't hold much purpose in the clean and well kept home. The same can be said for the foreskin.

Purpose or not, are you aware of the procedure to remove them from a cat? I am. I was a vet tech for a long time and watched hundreds of these procedures. They are not pleasant and cause the animal a lot of pain and suffering.

I agree, that's terrible.

I've also been told that circumcision causes babies an extreme amount of pain and suffering.



Either way, I'm glad I don't have to make a decision on either front today.

Male circumcision is completely unneccessary unless there is a genuine medical health reason for it, all this talk about it being "cleaner" is bullshit, as long as you wash properly this should never be an issue. It is all about making sex less pleasurable the same as the awful practice of female circumcision.
A friend of mine had to get circumcised due to a waterborne infection he picked up in Peru, he has stated that sex has never been the same or as pleasurable since. The idea that all men are born with a physical birth defect is bullshit.

Says the uncircumcised and defensiveBrit....















In all seriousness, I tend to agree with what you've written. My son is circumcised, but only because I didn't "know better". Circumcision was made "fashionable" in the United States after a movement by the Wackadoo Christians to put a stop to masturbation in the 19^th and 20^th century. Prior to that it was mainly practiced for relgious purposes(as is female circumcision, today).

Fortunately Americans are educating themselves on the necessity and theprocedure itself, and I believe only something like 46% of Americans are still doing it. There's some kind of stigma put on it, thanks to the Religious Right, and people are still having a hard time wrapping their heads around it being normal.

I don't understand it myself. If you're born with it, chances are you're meant to have it. Especially if every.other.male. is born with it.

Frustrating debate.