Circumcision Quotes

“How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting child’s body on nonmedical grounds – the legal definition of… mutilation.”
― Michel Onfray, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

“Female genital mutilation predates Islam. Not all Muslims do this, and a few of the peoples who do are not Islamic. But in Somalia, where virtually every girl is excised, the practice is always justified in the name of Islam. Uncircumcised girls will be possessed by devils, fall into vice and perdition, and become whores. Imams never discourage the practice: it keeps girls pure.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

“As a pregnant urologist,… I was often asked by hospital workers and physicians if I was going to circumcise the baby. I always answered a simple “no” immediately, without adding the unnecessary caveat that I already knew I was carrying a girl. Knowing that in some parts of the world circumcising girls (female genital mutilation) is as common a practice as circumcising boys, I wanted to use this to spark rethinking every chance I had. When the questioner would find out I knew I was having a girl and tried to use that to explain my choice to not circumcise, I told them, “I wouldn’t circumcise if the child were a boy, either.”
― Adrienne Carmack, Reclaiming My Birth Rights

“Sight without color would be a good analogy...only being able to see in black and white rather than seeing in full color would be like experiencing an orgasm with a foreskin and without. There are feelings you’ll just never have without the foreskin.”
― Kristen O'Hara, Sex as Nature Intended It: The Most Important Thing You Need to Know about Making Love, but No One Could Tell You Until Now

“The chamber-maid had left no ******* *** under the bed:—Cannot you contrive, master, quoth Susannah, lifting up the sash with one hand, as she spoke, and helping me up into the window seat with the other,—cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time to **** *** ** *** ******?”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“...I asked a friend if he felt ‘different’ when he was the only uncircumcised man in the shower and he said,‘Yes, gloriously different.”
― Kristen O'Hara, Sex as Nature Intended It: The Most Important Thing You Need to Know about Making Love, but No One Could Tell You Until Now

“...I’m restoring my foreskin because I was born with one, and damn it, I’m going to die with one.”
― Kristen O'Hara, Sex as Nature Intended It: The Most Important Thing You Need to Know about Making Love, but No One Could Tell You Until Now

“Why are so many Americans for male circumcision but against female circumcision? Both are equally cruel and barbaric traditions.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“There was no circumcision. Lee said circumcision was dreamed up by moralists and lotion salesmen to make hand jobs chafe, and Peggy deferred to his better judgement.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
― Thando Mgqolozana, A Man Who is Not a Man

“Did god make man too perfect,
So that a piece has to be removed
through circumcision?”
― A.J. Beirens

“I have been lying to myself thinking that I know a man when I see one. And all those giant men who taught me what it is to be a man are also liars. Either that or you are a liar. You be the judge.
There was silence.
'And just for the record, I won't leave my home in the care of a man who is not a man.”
― Thando Mgqolozana, A Man Who is Not a Man

“If my so-called father would have least bothered about his penis yesterday, he might not have worried too much about my penis today”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I just wish that those troublemakers who want to mutilate you by circumcision would mutilate themselves. (Galatians 5:12 NLT)”
― Paul, Galatians

“It was one of the many intolerable burdens of their womanhood that plagued their existence, and one which they continued to inflict on their own daughters despite all the misery it caused them in every stage of their lives.”
― Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt