Several of you have emailed to complain about my use of the word “mutilation” to describe circumcision. I’m just trying to be clear. The dictionary meaning for “mutilation” is “1.tTo deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple. 2.tTo disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See Synonyms at battery. 3.tTo make imperfect by excising or altering parts.” If cutting off the foreskin isn’t excising or altering a part, permanently, without the person’s consent, then what on earth is it?
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