andre Maranhao

I support bodily and genital integrity for both males and females and desire current genital integrity legislation to be inclusive of males. The law as it currently stands is discriminatory under equal protection by only protecting females. Neither sex should suffer genital cutting, which in both cases is done as a non-therapeutic cosmetic surgery performed on an unconsenting minor and on healthy, normal, and functional sexual tissue. No medical organization in the world recommends infant male circumcision and some country's governmental bodies are considering legislation to ban it. Male foreskins have a number of important immunological, sexual, and mechanical functions, and contains the most dense collection of fine-touch receptors on the penis. No other area on the male is more sensitive and is routinely removed and discarded or sold. Amputation commences without adequate anesthesia and traumatizes a fully alert conscious infant.