Circumcision is a form of mutilation

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'IT SEEMS it is winter again, which is okay if you are the member (of the Upper Jukskei Fly-fishing Collective), because at least he has a pair of boots in which to fish and absolutely no intention of sacrificing any part of his anatomy to gain entry into a cohort of his peers.

Each winter, many South African boys withdraw from society to undergo hardship in a ritualised test of manhood, including circumcision. Many boys will be horribly injured when their prepuces are crudely hacked off in unsanitary conditions. Many will die.

Circumcision of men and boys, in the opinion of the member, is genital mutilation no different from the widely condemned practice of genital mutilation of women and girls. Tradition or no tradition, religious or otherwise, in either sex it is cruel, atavistic and primitive. Other than in the relatively rare event of the medical condition paraphimosis and a number of infections, there is no reason to perform circumcision other than to establish dominance.

The same goes for the practice of adult male medical circumcision (MMC) under the ruse of preventing HIV transmission from women to men, except here medical men act as a class to force into submission uninformed men in what the Department of Health describes as low-income areas.'