My wife and I can't agree on circumcising our daughter.I think we should get it done,but she disagrees...help!

Question

I mean, their is no medical reason for it to be carried out, but I just think it would be better for her.

What do you think?

EDIT: I'm sorry people, but it wasn't a 'joke', I was trying to highlight the whole issue, with respect to another question, where women were suggesting it should be done to a boy.

Here is the link: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuNE6RJ.ZqhGAeu.UKBp_K8gBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20071005041529AACVg6S&show=7#profile-info-Wfj9DgYVaa

And just so you know, I don't agree with this at all.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I agree that it should not be legal to have a girl OR a boy done as a child against their will.

Answer 2

Well it would be easier to clean without folds and creases, she wouldn't make as much smegma or get as much smell and also it's been shown that female circumcision can actually reduce the risk of the female getting some infections. Oh yeah and labia look kinda weird.

Hey, people say it about boys, why not girls? It's practically the same thing!

If this was a serious question, then DON'T TOUCH YOUR KDIS!!!

Answer 3

This is probably a joke... However both male AND female circumcision are sadistic and cruel. If a child wants to circumsize themselves, then let him or her do so when they're the appropriate age of 16 or 18. Doing any sort of flesh cutting on a helpless, living, breathing baby is a most heinous crime against the child. Genital mutilation is immoral, and should be outlawed globally.

http://www.nocirc.org/

http://www.circumstitions.com/

Answer 4

It is ILLEGAL.

From the BBC Ethics site
In June 2005, new figures showed that up to 76,000 women living in the UK may have undergone illegal operations. An estimated 7,000 girls are still thought to be at risk. No one has yet been prosecuted, although health professionals claim that girls living in Britain have been circumcised in operations overseas organised by family members.

In 2004, the UK government closed a loophole to prevent young women from being taken abroad for circumcision. The then home secretary, David Blunkett, condemned genital cutting as "very harmful" and warned that parents would face imprisonment if they broke the law.

Reward in female circumcision cases
Press Association
Wednesday July 11, 2007 5:08 AM

A reward of £20,000 is being offered to bring the first person in the UK to justice for the barbaric ritual of female circumcision.

It is feared that up to 66,000 women and girls in the UK are at risk of genital mutilation, a tradition traced back to many African nations.

One London health specialist said she is treating up to 500 women every year for health problems linked to the practice. But police said no one has ever been prosecuted despite specific new legislation outlawing both those who undertake the procedure and arrange it.

Launching a campaign aimed at raising awareness of the practice, officers from the Metropolitan Police's child abuse unit said it was a hidden crime. They warned that many children are taken overseas during the summer holiday to undergo the procedure.

Officers added there is growing evidence that genital mutilation is also taking place among immigrant communities in the UK.

Detective Chief Superintendent Alastair Jeffrey said the true impact of female circumcision is impossible to measure.

He said: "The timing of this campaign is for one good reason: so we can get in before the summer holidays, a time when young girls are taken abroad and subjected to genital mutilation. We want to get the message over now because if we do we will be able to prevent a number of children having this brutal attack on them."

Defending the campaign, he insisted: "This is child abuse. It is not an attack on anyone's culture, it is an attack on anyone who commits this horrendous abuse of children. This is an appeal to communities themselves to eradicate this practise from within. It is about self-policing. It is recognising the fact that this is abuse."

Female circumcision is most common among people from African and some Middle Eastern nations. Countries with the highest recorded rates include Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, according to health charities. The term female circumcision covers a range of procedures from minor symbolic cuts to the genitals to attacks that involve complete amputation of external body parts.

Girls as young as just several weeks old are attacked by untrained people, sometimes family members, who use non-medical equipment without anaesthetic. Police said instruments such as rusty tin can lids, razor blades and broken glass have been used to cut them, and thorns used to stitch up the wounds. The procedure can lead to both short and long term health problems, while some girls have died from infection. In the UK, any practitioner or person who helps someone else to undertake it, could face up the 14 years' imprisonment under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003.

Answer 5

There is a big difference between female and male circumcision. I haven't stayed up on the medical findings for male circumcision, but the last I heard was that it did have a few benefits.

In any case, I'd make the decision based on the best medical information at the time and not social norms, for a son that is. I have no clue what it would mean for a female and doubt that there is a good case for it.

Answer 6

There are three painful stage follow this girl's whole life after the circumcision. 1. the time when she is 7 it's cruel and painful to their little body and she will be confused what she had done to deserve this.2. when she get married, having sex is a enjoyable thing but not for her, tearing up by the man, painful. 3. when she give birth to a child. tearing up again. what's the point, only man power? control women's sexual desire? why men don't control yourself? you surpose to protect her by loving and caring her, not by lock her virgina and torture her.
I t is illegal in the UK.

Answer 7

How about you wait until your daughter can make the choice
You might like idea but its not you who is having it done
If your parents had done that to you and you hadnt had a choice then you wouldnt exactly be happy
I think at the mo you should wait until your daughter can make her own decision and if she wants it then let her go with it
Dont try and do something unless everyone is happy with it

Answer 8

She should be circumcised right after I saw yours off with a dull rusty spoon.

Please don't mentally and physically scar your daughter. You have no idea the trauma that would cause her. Plus do you really want her to hate you the rest of her life?

Answer 9

Female circumcision is painful, and (as you said) medically unnecessary - in fact, it's unnecessary whatever way you look at it. To put your daughter through it would be quite cruel. Listen to your wife.

Answer 10

This being primarily a female matter, wisdom says that it's better to listen to your wife.