In response to CafeMom’s Forum Advice for Moms: Circumcision

Beg to differ. There most certainly IS a normal and an abnormal (mutilated). Normal is unmutilated. Mutilated is abnormal.

Let’s face it: ritual mutilation (male or female) is still mutilation. ALL of the science that supposedly justified this barbaric practice has deteriorated to puffery on closer examination.

You know, in parts of Africa and Australia, the practice of slitting open the length of the penis at puberty (subcision) is still practiced and any member of the group that does it, male or female, will give you what are, to them compelling reasons that it should be done.

So will the groups that practice female circumcision. either partial or total.

Mutilation is, as I said above, mutilation.

The body is perfect in its unmutilated state. That is the meaning of normal. Familiar is NOT necessarily normal.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima