Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society

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George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos
Springer Science & Business Media, 2004 - 254 pagini
Who owns your sex organs? Different cultures today and in different epochs have given a variety of answers to this question. It may seem self evident that every individual owns and has sovereignty over his or her own body parts, such as the head, legs, nose, stomach, pancreas, and other body parts. The sex organs, however, seem to be an exception. Even though they are as much an integral part of the individual as a leg or a liver, the sex organs are unique in that many cultures have established laws and taboos over the use and even the mere display of the sex organs. Thus, certain cultures have placed constraints over the individual's ownership of his or her sex organs and actively regulate and restrict the individual's access and use of those organs. In other cultures, the question of ownership of the sex organs is more decisively answered. In any culture where circumcision to any degree of either the male or female is practiced, permitted, encouraged, or even merely tolerated, it is clear that the individual is not considered to own his own sex organs. In the United States today, the medical establishment has created an is considered acceptable and desirable that anyone for environment where it any reason can authorize or execute the amputation of the foreskin from a male child's penis.

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Bodily Integrity in the Biotech Era
1
An Analysis of the Accuracy of the Presentation of the Human Penis
17
Circumcision and Sexual Pleasure
45
Penile Torts in the Courts
69
Educating the United Nations about Circumcision 89 68
89
Circumcision of Boys
109
Anthropology and Female Genital Cutting FGC
119
Changes in Infibulation Practice in East Africa
133
The Growing Jewish Circumcision Debate
171
My Painful Journey
195
Adoption
217
Appendix
237
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