Weekly Participation

Stephanie Grieb

For the interview this week, we were asked to discuss between us and the interviewee whether circumcision for both male and female is a violation of human rights.  The interviewee stated that it makes more sense for men to be circumcised than for women to be because she said that in a class she took, she learned that circumcision for men eliminates half the chances of them getting a disease because it makes it easier to clean whereas the female parts is self-cleaning so it violates women's rights to be circumcised because it is not necessary; cultures only do this so they won't feel pleasure.  However, circumcision does not take pleasure away from men; it actually helps them.