Likewise, performing a radical mastectomy on girls would significantly reduce the incidence of breast cancer. Why don't we do that?
Bingo -- the whole thing about being "cleaner for living in the desert" or something is hooey -- every desert mammal has a foreskin; if it were a disadvantage evolution would've adapted that along with all the other…
And there's HUGE regional variation, the practice being very rare in the southwest and very common in the northeast. I can say from personal experience, I'm in the midwest and in my entire dating career, I've only…
However, the precedent that FGM is outlawed _despite_ religious protest, means that MGM might eventually fall too. This means that anyone wishing to preserve MGM is trying to find support for it on other grounds. Hence…
Likewise, performing a radical mastectomy on girls would significantly reduce the incidence of breast cancer. Why don't we do that?
Bingo -- the whole thing about being "cleaner for living in the desert" or something is hooey -- every desert mammal has a foreskin; if it were a disadvantage evolution would've adapted that along with all the other…
And there's HUGE regional variation, the practice being very rare in the southwest and very common in the northeast. I can say from personal experience, I'm in the midwest and in my entire dating career, I've only…
However, the precedent that FGM is outlawed _despite_ religious protest, means that MGM might eventually fall too. This means that anyone wishing to preserve MGM is trying to find support for it on other grounds. Hence…