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1) I've never really understood the hubbub about male circumcision. Maybe because it happened when i was too little to remember anything, while female circumcision *tends* to be undertaken around puberty and more or less for the explicit purpose of reducing their sexual agency, which is why it is monstrous. Male circumcision seems to just be a matter of taste (although i can only speak from my experience, and don't talk about that sort of thing with others. Don't know what the data says)

2) Funnily, we were discussing that on another site. The draft is more or less an anachronism anyway, so this isn't anything that will become an issue anyway, or if and when it *does* become an issue, we'll have bigger fish than social justice to fry.

3/4) The "male abortion" is essentially an unsolvable problem. Deadbeat dads were a huge problem in terms of childhood poverty: child support payments can make a huge difference in the child's life if the mother is poor. Giving the man an ability to "out" with no strings attached is entirely different from an abortion, which is an emotionally costly choice for the woman (even if there weren't such anti-abortion stigma in this country). There would have to be some material incentive for men to *keep* their paternity status, something who's loss would be worse than the benefit gained from ditching child support payments.

5) I want to say the US has fixed that, at least in a legal sense. There is definitely the perception that men can't be raped, but i'm pretty sure a man being forced, by a person of either gender, to doing a sex act against his will has been raped.



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