Why do some people support circumcision of males – but not females?

Question

Wow people – hostility, rationalizations, and assumptions are not constructive. Unlike many of you I am not judging what people believe – only curious about why people believe what they do.

Answer 1

Well, well, well, now females do not seem to like it anymore when it is the other way around!!! Typical female behaviour!
The defenition of circumsion on females do not allways involves the removal of the clitoris:
http://www.noharmm.org/circumfemale.htm

About male circumcision:
RELIGION--If God intended boys to not have "skin" He would have made them so.
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/

HYGIENE--Use a new invention, soap and water!!! Women produce much more smegma because of physiologic and anatomical reasons, and how would you feel if they cut your vulva lips??? Women, why don’t you answer my question, are you afraid? Baby girls are more likely to get urinary tract infections and no one suggests we surgically alter them at birth to reduce the risks! Just one of many double standards and laws that always treat men worse.

MEDICAL REASONS--No medical reasons. A extremely small chance of a complication do not justify the removal of the foreskin, if so, why don't we remove the tonsils and the appendix when a child is born, and the chance of complications of the tonsils and the appendix is much greater. Talking about complications, in fact many baby boys die each year from circumcision and related complications.
EVEN if phimosis occurs, instead of chopping it off like barbarians!, use Conservative Treatments like:
-Topical Medication(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Dilation and Stretching(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Combination treatment(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Preputioplasty is the medical term for plastic surgery of the prepuce or foreskin(many methods).
If you want more detail on Conservative Treatments, go here:
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/

SEX--Foreskin actually enhances the sexual experience for men because it constantly moves over the head of the penis causing more friction and pleasure. Men will also lose much sensitivity to the glans if circumcised.
Circunsized men will have to deal with disconfot and dry glans.
The foreskin have those functions: protective, erogenous, sensory, and sexual physiologic. After all, why would you want to lose all of those “Meissner corpuscles”, the same nerve complexes which provide fine touch to the fingertips?
It is there for many reasons, that is how a man should be(it is natural).
If women like it better circumcised because it looks better(strange, not natural) or gives them more sexual pleasure(strange, not natural), then too bad, they do not have the right! All men do not like mutilated vulvas, and all men like breasts with nipples, they do not like mutilated breasts, etc, etc, etc, because that is the way those organs are supposed to be, it is natural. Interesting, isn’t?!!!

If that was a common practice to do that to baby girls, all the women would be in a big uproar about it(and men too!, men are not like women), but it’s ok to mutilate little boys. The great majority of the ones that agree with circumcision are women for their stupid selfish reasons. Even court cases reported in which mother and father fight because the mother wants to mutilate the son, it is always the mother!. You women should be ashamed to that to your son. Men that are not circumcised, will not get circumcised when adults, they would scream, kick, fight and run, if someone tries to mutilate their privates area, just like you women would run too if someone tried to do that to your labia. Men that where circumcised do not realize what they lost because never had one, and most of them that do realize try to justify it so they do not feel bad about it. Many circumcised men feel very bad emotionally because of what was done to them to such a private area.
It is mutilation of defenceless children in the most private spot, genital mutilation.
It is cruel and barbaric.
It is a human rights violation.
It is not the parent’s decision; it is the parents decision if they want to abuse him, rape him, or to kill him?.
I do not even agree that it is ok if an adult man wants to get circumcised. I think it is wrong, because if a man wants to lose a finger, the Doctor can not do that to him. Think about it, think, think. And by the way, adult men that decide to get circumcised, do it because they know most women like it, they just do it to be more accepted by women.
I think it is just like slavery and all other barbaric acts of the past, it was accepted because it was common practice or tradition, everyone accepted slavery without questioning the facts, but it is not accepted anymore in a modern and fair and civilized society. Circumcision must not be allowed, BY LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many other reasons not to do it, check it out:
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/boydies.html

Answer 2

Because what is sometimes called "female circumcision" is actually an amputation of the clitoris---not at ALL like a circumcision. On a penis, circumcision is the removal, usually at birth, of the foreskin. Some people consider it unnecessary, but others feel that it improves hygiene.
Female genital mutilation (which is what is really is, not circumcision) invoves the cutting off of the clitoris, usually between the age of 10-16. The ONLY reason it is done is b/c that particular culture wants to ensure that women can never enjoy sex. They feel that if a woman doesn't like it, then she will never want to cheat on her husband. In many parts of subsaharan Africa where this mutilation is still practiced, many, many girls die of horrible infections, as the 'operation' is usually done just in a hut and the conditions are not sterile. It's a barbaric practice. Because it is horribly painful (many women have severe pain from it their whole lives, not just when the amputation is done), because it causes many deaths, and because it is a form of mutilation/torture, it cannot even be remotely considered in the same league as a male circumcision.

Answer 3

Female circumcision (performed from about age 6 to 9) involves either removing the clitoris and sewing the genitals shut save for one extremely tiny hole only big enough for urine and blood to pass through, or removing the clitoris *and* inner lips of a young girl's genitals and sewing up the same way. It is usually done with a sharpened stone in *very* unsanitary conditions, while the girl is held down without anaesthesia. On the girl's wedding night, the small hole is ripped through by the man. When the girl has a baby, the hole is sewed back up very tiny again, so that the girl will be 'tight' again for her husband.

Male circumcision removes the foreskin, usually at birth or very soon after, and doesn't cause the male to suffer for the rest of his life. To compare male circ to female circ, you would have to cut off a man's entire penis. Does that sound very similar to you at all?

I'm against both female and male circumcision, but female circumcision is definitely the more horrific and grotesque practice.

Answer 4

Because a circumcision at one point biblically saved lives, a circumcision is about removing the extra skin of the penis, a female does not have extra skin in or around the vaginal area to be removed therefore it's not something that needs done at all.

Answer 5

"Circumcision" of females is genital mutilation. Circumcision of males has been shown to show a decrease in the risk of transmission of HIV/AIDS. Female circumcision is a disgusting, unnecessary vicious and brutal removal of the clitoris. Male circumcision is optional, but there are definitely health advantages to it.

Answer 6

Circumcision for male has it benifits like sexual and health whilst female circumsision has none.

Answer 7

Because for the man, his foreskin can trap unpleasant odors and bacteria, thats why it should be done. Females dont have foreskin, but they have to clean at least 2 times a day inside.

Answer 8

Because it's sick and cruel. It's a very different procedure than male circumcision

Answer 9

Why? That is a dumb question. Instead of circumcision how about casteration, that would be basically what you would do to a woman.

Answer 10

well i guess you men can enjoy sex after that and its just not the case when a women is circumcised