@James: ‘FYU’ I ‘take the liberty’ of expressing my opinion about female reproduction and sexuality based on the fact that I am a woman.
I did read your entire post and my entire comment was not directed at you alone as I’m sure you realize. Your reaction at this point is based on how my comment made you feel. The sciences and resulting conclusions are still highly biased and nearly never objective (and therefore inaccurate) in matters of female sexuality.
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Jun 072010
Saving Penises: “Social reformers are never, ever liked. They are always unpopular because they are always confronting a culture that doesn’t want to know more about injustice for which they bear some responsibility.” ~ Gregg Cunningham, Esq. Exec Director for The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform”
Phil N. Molé: “Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks here about the initial support by the American Association of Pediatrics for the proposed practice of “genital nicking” of girls, meant as a “compromise” to American Muslim parents who want to acknowledge the practice of female genital cutting. Thankfully, the AAP has dropped its initial support due to protest. Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be on Stephen Colbert tonight, so be sure to watch.”
@Jay: “… women CANNOT depend on men to ‘save’ or even help them in this or any discussion. Do that, and you’ll be waiting a long time, and so will your granddaughter’s grandkids.”
Great post and so true. It is sad to see how women refuse to accept facts. As an ecofeminist I feel that a large proportion of women live their lives in a slumber. Sort of like a beauty sleep of denialism.
Why is it so hard to accept the facts? Because it all goes back to us. We the women produce society. We create children, and for the most part we still raise them as mothers, caregivers, teachers, nurses, doctors, educators, voters, consumers, etc. etc…
@Samantha: thanks for the link. I agree that the bonobo culture of everyone having sex with everyone is disgusting from a human point of view. It should be said that the females leave the group and join unrelated groups to engage with the new groups’ dominant females and to reproduce with their sons who remain with their mothers their entire lives.
Because of interbreeding that stopped only recently relative to the entire homo history (human evolution), all three, bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans not only stem from the same ancestor, but we also are directly related, and technically, to some extent, the two are our ancestors. Because of this it is possible that we evolved with a similar division between a matriarchal/matrilineal/matrilocal culture and a patriarchal/patrilineal/patrilocal one.
@Chris: I hope that by beasts you don’t mean animals. Humans in fact are animals. The difference is that wild animals practice natural sexual behavior and humans do not. The result is the perversion of human sexuality. One example is sadism (rape, humiliation, degradation, etc.) or the intention to inflict psychological, emotional and/or physical pain. Another is masochism or the submission to sadism.
@Amen: exactly. If every case of child genital mutilation were to be reported as a crime to the police accompanied with criminal charges in accordance to various laws against assault, child sexual abuse, torture, etc. it would cease to be practiced.
May 192010
To avoid clitoral castration and as an attempt to replace clitoral tissue lost to castration and regain some of the sensation, women eventually started teaching their pubescent daughters to methodically pull on their inner labia with the help of medicinal plants.
Guggie Daly: “don’t worry, I’m not surprised. If we can amputate the prepuce on a newborn boy and call it a little snip, then surely Americans think pricking a newborn girl is acceptable. Safe, legal and rare. That’s been our mantra for how long now? As long as DOCTORs are the ones to control these offenses against little people, then we can all support it.”
Debbie Murphy: “I always wondered what it would be like if all the world’s leaders were women.”
Intact America: “When talking about infant circumcision, consider the ethics: it’s elective, medically unnecessary surgery performed on an infant without his consent. Let him decide when he comes of age; until then, parents and physicians need to leave our infant sons intact.”
Mar 172010
Cold water was sometimes used to numb the flesh (comparable to the later Christian baptizing). The foreskin would be completely cut or burned off, or the underside of the penis would be sliced lengthwise (sub-incision) to bare the resemblance of a vulva, making sacrificial bloodletting a part of the initiation ritual.
Mar 072010
There is no cure for greed just as there is no ‘cure’ for the survival instinct. In this case like you say it is about fear and this fear might be somewhat lessened through government regulation of business.
I don’t think that the economic collapse and unsustainable costs of ‘health’ care, etc. are due to the faultiness of capitalism but rather because thievery has been sold as capitalism.
Europeans make more use of alternative and natural medicine because they have universal health care which covers all or the majority of these types of treatments. There are also more medical treatments available that are non-invasive/toxic, like salves (ointments) and mechanical/tech therapies.
Feb 172010
For survival, women learned to ignore the pain and inner conflict of their contradictory existence, and accept their systematic disempowerment on all levels as reality, going as far as embracing this spread of mental and physical disease as a normal part of human maturation.
Because of the importance of territorial expansion and related warrior deaths, reproduction had to be stimulated. This was achieved by demonizing non-reproductive sexual practices, particularly homosexual acts and masturbation.
Jan 112010
What you are describing should be a process occurring in a girl’s/woman’s childhood and teen years.
The comparative statistic clearly shows that the health claims about the benefits of this sadomasochistic live skinning of male infant genitals are pure propaganda on part of medical, religious and political institutions whose present and future income and influence depend on the maintenance of ignorance and primitivism.
Jan 082010
The archaic Homo Sapiens (Latin: wise, knowing) evolved around 250,000 BP in the African savannas (Sub-Saharan Africa).
They repeatedly migrated between Africa and Eurasia, prior to becoming the modern version of Homo Sapiens Sapiens related to the absorption of the remaining Homo species and hybrids, and the final settlements (including the Americas) 15,000-5,000 BP.
Jan 012010
Parents must realize that children are individuals whose lives, emotions, bodies, etc. are entirely their own.
Dec 182009
Most parts of the world today have long established laws, governments, social and economic systems, and yet children and adults are still being mutilated, tortured, abused and killed.
Dec 172009
Katarina Nolte, first time author. I have been reading about sexuality since I was 11, which this month will make 28 years of hobby research on the subject.
Only over the past 10 years have I really learned more about the clitoris, and the more I learn, the more obvious it becomes that as women, we are unfortunately not equal partners in sexual matters.
At this point in human evolution environmental pollution from cars, trucks, plains, ships, factories, and processing plants, is the major cause for genetic and immune system damage in humans, animals and plants. These fine particles of industrial and recreational waste enter the body, get stuck and wreck havoc.
Facebook: “Patricia Robinett” – Female Genital Mutilation At Cornell University
Patricia Robinett: “I have never seen so many people so upset. never seen so many 4-letter words. when will they get it that we still do a similar atrocity en masse to baby boys?”