Comments on: Much Ado About Foreskin http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/teamkenan/much-ado-about-foreskin/ Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Hugh7 http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/teamkenan/much-ado-about-foreskin/#comment-3504 Hugh7 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:18:02 +0000 http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/teamkenan/?p=3042#comment-3504 Ironic or not, the German ruling flows directly from their Grundgesetz (basic law, or constitution) that was put in place in 1949, at the same time as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and for the same reason, to ensure that no Hitler could ever rise again. It guarantees “physical integrity” (with Mengele in mind) and equality of the sexes, and the court rightly ruled that male infant circumcision violates both of those. Your Kenyan example is a good one. If it is unacceptable to circumcise a healthy adult man, how can it be acceptable to do the same to a baby, when the effect on him as an adult is the same? That he does not remember the act is no excuse.

You’re right about the multiplicity of reasons. About 1995, it seemed to me that they were just too many and varied, and something else must be going on. I decided to collect them, thinking there were about 30. Today, the list at the Intactivism Pages is more than 500 and still growing. I still haven’t figured out what is really going on, but power and control have a lot to do with it.

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