San Francisco Considers Male Circumcision Ban

[Jenn! 918]

(Nov. 12) -- Fresh off their city's banning of Happy Meals, some San Francisco residents want to put a stop to another cruelty inflicted upon young children: male circumcision.

A proposed ballot measure for the November 2011 ballot -- when voters will be electing San Francisco's next mayor -- would amend The City's police code 'to make it a misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the foreskin, testicle or ####### of another person who has not attained the age of 18,' The San Francisco Examiner reports.

The practice is standard in the United States and has spread far beyond religious communities where the cutting was established as a ritual.

In the West, female circumcision is often referred to as genital mutilation and condemned as a barbaric practice of benighted and paternalistic societies. But not so with males.

The United States has the highest incidence rate of male circumcision in the world at 56 percent. Some studies suggest that circumcision can reduce the incident of ####### cancer (a very rare disease) and reduce the likelihood of receiving a sexually transmitted disease during unprotected sex. (Though, of course, a circumcised ####### is not a condom.) Still other studies suggest that a degree of sexual sensitivity is lost after the foreskin is snipped.

Plus, it's a grisly procedure. Anti-circumcision advocate Andrew Sullivan writes, "the majority of circumcisions do not use anesthetic. Babies are strapped into a restraint, keeping their legs apart, and their arms and abdomen down, because when they have their penises sliced open, they scream and struggle. ... If parents tore the skin off their infants in any other part of the body, they'd be arrested for abuse."

Someday, in San Francisco at least, perhaps they will.

http://www.aolnews.c...sion-b/19714358

Edited November 15, 2010 by Jenn!

[^_^ 5,021]

I wonder if there is an exception in the proposed law for parents who wish to circumcise their sons for religious reasons.

[sanfran2418 1]

Wow.. I live here and didn't know about that.

[scandal 951]

I wonder if there is an exception in the proposed law for parents who wish to circumcise their sons for religious reasons.

Of course not. We should be rounded up for following the customs of our forefathers.

I betcha there will be an exodus of mohels setting up practice in Oakland should this pass....

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I betcha there will be an exodus of mohels setting up practice in Oakland should this pass....

Maybe it will also be illegal to transport a minor outside of SF with the express intent to circumcise him.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

We should use a TAC on San Fran and get it over with.....

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

Maybe it will also be illegal to transport a minor outside of SF with the express intent to circumcise him.

[Amby 490]

I for real lol'd at the part about a circumcised ####### not being a condom

I think people should be able to choose for religious or for concerns of future health problems but I also think there's nothing wrong with foreskin. My new custom title should be my famous foreskin line "embrace the foreskin "

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Frisco is one big freak fest. Nothing good comes from Frisco politics.

[Jenn! 918]

Maybe SF will go to war with Muslims over this. Gosh, who to back?!

[sly_wolf 199]

Good title for a rock band ..... "the 4 skins"

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

Maybe SF will go to war with Muslims over this. Gosh, who to back?!

[Danno 1,228]

I wonder if there is an exception in the proposed law for parents who wish to circumcise their sons for religious reasons.

At first.

This all makes perfect sense in a liberals mind..... The infant can decide for himself if he wants his pecker trimmed.... when he is of age and free from Parental pressures.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I support it because I wish I could have chosen for myself what happened down there.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Guess gays like their guys uncircumcised.