Is their any theological, thinking either pro or con regarding this practice.
2007-07-26 16:09:16 · 9 answers · asked by All-One 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Just to clarify, I am referring to two different procedures.
This question is pursuant to a program on CNN, where adult Male's were holding an eight year old girl down to preform this inhumane act.
2007-07-26 16:40:58 · update #1
either sex, Circumcision = Mutilation
2007-07-26 20:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same way I feel about castration--it's criminal.
To call clitoridectomy a "circumcision" is a misnomer, and like calling castration "circumcision." Clitoridectomies are the removal of the female pleasure organ. Foreskin is not a male pleasure organ. I hope any man performing this procedure is willing to lose his own penis to carry out the task.
A true female circumcision would be to remove the female equivalent of foreskin. Embryonically speaking, a female's foreskin is her clitoral hood. That's the very small flap of skin that falls over her clitoris, and that's very different than a clitoridectomy. Such a procedure, like male circumcision, would only further expose the most sensitive part of the sex organ.
2007-07-26 16:20:21 · answer #2 · answered by Buying is Voting 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm curious as to why you asked this same question three minutes before you asked it again.
If you possessed a clitoris I sincerely doubt that you would entertain any theological defense of this practice. But then there's no accounting for the absurdity of many religious beliefs and practices. Anything can be, and often has been, justified in the name of religion.
2007-07-26 16:19:41 · answer #3 · answered by Charlie P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YOu will find all you nee to knwo if you research Ibrahim (Abraham).. who apparently cut off his foreskin with an axe when he was about 80 years old. Clearly suffering from senility and a persistant and severe rash, he sought what he saw as the only solution... cut it off.
It should come as no surprise then that he also lopped off one of his children's heads with the same axe and circumscised others. It is said he was guided by God, although I have obvious doubts.
I think it absurd that the practice would be followed bu others.
2007-07-26 18:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to research the historical reasoning for performing such actions. Obviously, whatever the reasoning, it can no longer be justified.
2007-07-26 16:21:05 · answer #5 · answered by OTTO 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a vicious and ugly act of fear, perpetrated by ignorant men and women who themselves are vicious and ugly.
2007-07-26 16:18:01 · answer #6 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the Bible forbids mutilation of the body
2007-07-26 16:12:56 · answer #7 · answered by cameoseashell 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you just dislike sex that bad or is there some sort of medical problem ?
2007-07-26 16:12:51 · answer #8 · answered by wesley_1971 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is mutiliation to make men feel better..............it has no real purpose
2007-07-26 16:13:45 · answer #9 · answered by richard t 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋