Ein recht langer Aufsatz des berühmten Nobelpreisträgers George Wald über dessen Ansichten zur Beschneidung der Vorhaut.
“Well, I’ve thought about it a lot,” he said, “I’ve been thinking about it for years. I think it’s a terrible thing to do to a male infant that’s just gone through the struggle of being born, that’s just left the warmth and security of the womb to come out into a cold and strange world, to greet him with the knife, with a mutilation. I’ve never been able to forgive my mother for having that done to me.”
Wald vertritt die These, dass jeder Mensch weibliche und männliche Elemente in sich trägt. Bei der Beschneidung der Genitalien werde jeweils das Element des anderen Geschlechts beseitigt. Bei Männern werde das weibliche, die schützende Hülle der Vorhaut entfernt, bei Frauen das männliche, die hervorstehende Klitoris.
he said, “that the foreskin is the female element in a male. It’s warm flesh enclosing the penis; a kind of male vagina.” “My god!” I said, “That’s wonderful! Because we’ve always been told that the clitoris is the male element in a female!”
For it is a barbarous thing to meet a newly born infant with the knife, with a deliberate mutilation. And the part that is removed is not negligible; it has clear and valuable functions to perform. Not circumcising a boy will not only spare him a brutal violence as he enters life; it will promise him a richer existence. And that not only because the possession of a foreskin will increase his genital sensitivity and make possible more satisfactory and pleasurable sexual activity, but also because of the consideration with which this essay began: that the foreskin is the female element in the male.
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