Yesterday, after an almost endless wait, the movie American Circumcision was released.

Availability

Sadly the first thing I noticed was that the movie is difficult to obtain outside North America:

Vimeo clearly states that sales are restricted to US and Canada. None of the other outlets where that honest.

Google Play won't show a purchase button without any further explanation.

YouTube pretends the movie doesn't exist and shows the well known 😕 error page.

ITunes search pretends the movie doesn't exist and returns similar sounding but irrelevant results.

Amazon might let you buy a physical copy.

Microsoft might let you buy or rent a copy.

Luckily I am a Kickstarter and I have seen the movie at the ICMI'218.

Synopsis

The subject of the movie is both male and female genital mutation with an clear emphasis on male infant genital mutation in the USA.

It is interesting to see how similar both opponents as well as supporter of male and female mutation argue there case.

It is up the viewer to draw conclusions from the manyfold interviews which make up the majority of the movie.

As other reviewer pointed out an actual infant circumcision is shown. It is clearly stated that the parents insisted on the procedure so it would have happened anyway.

I personally could not watch this part and i was not the only one in the audience who has to look away.

My Stand

Considering how similar both pro and contra arguments for MGM and FGM are I can only marvel at the cognitive dissonance needed to support one and oppose the the other.

I clearly oppose both or better all three. The last one being intersex genital mutation. I firmly believe that ever human has the right to grow up with there genitals intact and make an informed decision on there own body once they reach the age of consent.

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