You should go through a year of intensive counseling and a full year of living with a clip-on before you get pierced.
More seriously, I think FGM is really really sick. It's one of those things I think is so sick that I almost can accept otherwise unacceptable intrusions into privacy to stop it. But not quite. I think adults can do sick things to themselves. Nevermind piercing which isn't sick even if there's a bunch of piercings out there that totally squick me out.
My preference would be no genital mutilation for children, of either sex and no limits on what adults can do. If you think it's such a great idea, get it done when you're an adult. If you're that obsessed with the genitals of your baby or pre-adolescent, you need to be watched. And when you're an adult, whether it's your religion or you just want to get onto Mad Mad House 2, I just don't think it's my or the government's business what you do to yourself as long as we don't have to clean it up.
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Date: 2004-03-25 12:04 pm (UTC)More seriously, I think FGM is really really sick. It's one of those things I think is so sick that I almost can accept otherwise unacceptable intrusions into privacy to stop it. But not quite. I think adults can do sick things to themselves. Nevermind piercing which isn't sick even if there's a bunch of piercings out there that totally squick me out.
My preference would be no genital mutilation for children, of either sex and no limits on what adults can do. If you think it's such a great idea, get it done when you're an adult. If you're that obsessed with the genitals of your baby or pre-adolescent, you need to be watched. And when you're an adult, whether it's your religion or you just want to get onto Mad Mad House 2, I just don't think it's my or the government's business what you do to yourself as long as we don't have to clean it up.