"Then there are parents of circumcised boys. There are the mothers who deeply regret cutting their sons, and I imagine these sons will fare pretty well emotionally, as they will be met with compassion and remorse from at least one parent. There are the parents who are naive, uneducated, and simply circumcised compulsively, because ‘it’s what you do.’ It’s hard to conjecture how these parents might react to being confronted by a cut son, but I’d posit the children of these parents would choose forgiveness for ignorance. The sons I worry about are the ones whose parents very arrogantly ignore the intactivist message. The message that says, ‘his penis is fine, his body his choice.’ These parents who very defensively say, ‘Bugger off, it’s my kid and I’ll cut his penis if I feel like it, and tough luck if he doesn’t like it.’ The sons of these parents are the ones I fear for the most."
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:54:31 +0000
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