(Google it if you don’t know, but you’d have to be living under the same rock as the guy who hasn’t heard of LOLCATs)

Let’s also note that MGM in Turkey and in many parts of Africa is, in fact, performed on older children and teenagers without anaesthetic, frequently resulting in gangrene, loss of the entire penis and death.

For what it’s worth, I’m not trying to minimise the horror of FGM, we all know it’s absolutely awful. I’m trying to emphasise what a blind eye we turn to the genital mutilation of males.

Globally, the two most common forms of FGM are hood-splitting (which is less invasive than male cutting) and hood-trimming, which removes identical tissue (the prepuce) and is available as a cosmetic procedure in the West called a “hoodectomy” or “Toronto Trim”.

Trimming the labia minora is another popular procedure in the West, but in FGM is usually accompanied by removal of the entire clitoris.  To say nothing of the hygiene problems. Which, incidentally, also kill hundreds of men in African ritual cutting every year.

Both are rooted in suppressing sexual pleasure and are culturally rationalised as “hygienic”. Performed on infants, both are ethical violations on the autonomy and integrity of the body. At least in the West girls are protected by law. No luck for boys, though.

And despite the MPs’ dedication, it’s too bad the research is bogus: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/05/when-bad-science-kills-or-how-to-spread-aids/

If “M” words must be dealt with using dehumanization or castration then one must include other “M” words like

Morgan, Miscreant, and Morgan’s Man Parts.

Send this man the Nobel Peace Prize, stat.

when we allow the population density of New York City the enclosure is adequate for nearly 6 millenia.