It’s that time again for another venting post. I used to try to convince myself that the people who were for circumcision were merely ignorant, and that all it would take would be a civilized conversation and directing them to a few good links and a video of the procedure. First, it is hard (if not impossible) to have a civilized conversation with someone who likes to mutilate baby boys, and second, it seems that it isn’t merely ignorance fueling that desire to maim. It is pure unadulterated stupidity. I fell in the ignorant camp about 5 years ago, when someone convinced me to do a bit of research on circumcision. I had believed it was just a useless flap of skin that got in the way and needed to be removed. I believed that the babies didn’t feel anything, so it was better to get it over with then. If those were the reasons everyone agreed with circumcision, it would be very easy to persuade them otherwise. Just watching a video of it lets you know it’s not just a flap of skin. Visiting a site like circumstitions.com, intactamerica.org or norcirc.org and reading up on what the foreskin is and does should also be enough for anyone who doesn’t want to watch a video (though no parent who is unable to watch the procedure should be able to subject his/her son to it). But it isn’t that easy, so the reasons must run deeper than mere ignorance.

There are girls out there who blatantly say they would never give an intact guy a blow job. No one can really pay much attention to stupid comments like that though, since many girls might never give a cut guy a blow job. That isn’t something that a lot of women will want to do unless/until they meet the guy they fall in love with. Then you pretty much want to do almost anything to make him happy. Though would those girls be more relieved when they learn that sex is better with intact, and that those men are less likely to even want a blow job because they don’t need that extra pressure? Cut men need it, since they enjoy it far more than actual sex. After all, the mouth is tighter than the vagina, so their poor mutilated desensitized penises can feel more in a mouth. That might also explain why more cut men do anal sex (other than the gay men, of course, who have no choice but to use oral or anal) than their intact counterparts. An intact penis is designed to have sex with a woman’s vagina. They are two pieces of a puzzle that give both partners more pleasure together than apart.

There are other people who insist that male circumcision cannot be compared to female genital cutting, but there are many similarities. Yes, the extreme case of FGM is far worse than the standard circumcision, but they are very similar when dealing with a botched circumcision, especially those that lead to amputated penises or death. I would think death caused by male circumcision is far worse than any type of FGM that leaves the woman alive. You can disagree with that if you wish, but life should always be valued more than death.

Anyway, I have already covered FGM vs MGM in another post, so I won’t dwell on it here, but it does bring me to another example of stupidity that I have encountered. There are some people (hopefully only a few this stupid) who don’t think that a baby losing his penis in a botched circumcision is considered amputation. They don’t agree that the foreskin is an organ that can be amputated. Worse than that, they don’t agree that the penis is an appendage that can be amputated. So if a boy loses his penis, they don’t think it was amputated. I don’t know what word they would use to call the removal of the penis, but what does it really matter when you’re dealing with this level of stupidity? I’m certainly at a loss and cannot continue any type of conversation once I realize I’m talking to someone this stupid. See that is the difference between ignorant and stupid. Ignorance is merely lacking education. Once informed, that person is no longer ignorant. You can’t fix stupid, though. You can only hope that person never breeds.