{"id":1811,"date":"2013-10-09T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2013-10-09T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:13:10","slug":"circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/1811\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boys and girls over at Samizdata are discussing circumcision<\/a>. \u00a0The issue of male circumcision always generates a heated debate in libertarian circles, between those who argue that the child should be protected from “mutilation” and those who argue that the government has no right to interfere.<\/p>\n

Me, I don’t really know, and I don’t have any dog – or be-willied child – in this fight. \u00a0What I do know is that two things are usually mentioned whenever the topic of male circumcision comes up:<\/p>\n

1. Women prefer how it looks circumcised, a statement offered in favour of the practice.<\/p>\n

2. American men want their children circumcised because they themselves are circumcised, and they “want him to look like me”.<\/p>\n

Regarding the first point, can you imagine a man advocating surgical intervention on female children based on how he prefers them to look in a sexual context? \u00a0He’d be burned at the nearest stake.<\/p>\n

Regarding the second, I’ve actually heard people say this. \u00a0Which leads me to believe that the annual Father-Son Cock Similarity Contest is a big event in the American social calendar.<\/p>\n

Finally, I have no idea which category to file this post under. \u00a0I’ll stick it under General Observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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