[sickoflibs]

The irony is that there are clear positive health reasons for doing this, not just religious.

I was born in a Jewish hospital (parents were BOTH Christians) and am glad for it.

This sounds suspicious.

[gzzimlich]

There are clear, positive health benefits to female circumcision as well.

I’d be willing to bet a nice chunk of change that the rates of STD’s, cervical cancer, HPV, UTI’s, and teenage pregnancy are drastically lower among circumcised females compared with age-grouped peers in Western countries.

Of course, we all know that the “health benefits” argument is simply an excuse to perform ritual mutilation on someone who is unable to give proper consent, so it shouldn’t really matter.

I find it odd that the (marginal) benefits of male circumcision — all of which are available by other means — still seem to still pass as a valid excuse for those who seem to realize its unacceptable on other grounds.