[Angela]

Originally Posted by newsbone

Don’t tell me that the GREAT NATION does not have skeletons in its closets.

Sounds like you strongly identify with your continent, but my remarks about what happens there don't necessarily mean anything about you, or about any particular person living there. fgm is a practice that is also condoned in parts of the Middle East, and in tiny pockets of emigrees here in the U.S. My point has nothing to do with the making people wrong geographically, although I am glad to be living in a part of the world where such practices are less readily accepted. My point was that those practices, like child molestation, have adult exploitation of children in common -- power-over, with a win/lose intention.

And for your information I think rape is not a right even in Africa

You missed my point again, which is that the rapists likely feel it is their right to rape, because they believe their lives are at stake (and are more important than the lives and health of the virgins they rape). Again, the parallel is that the adults who feel they have the right to have sex with and/or impregnate children are behaving with the same lack of integrity, by which I mean they are not operating with a win/win intention.

... but FGM is an acceptable practice even beyond the Dark Continent which is done to reduce a woman’s libido, therefore I strongly advice you to go for it as I cant help but notice your fascination about sex in this thread that otherwise should be covering a wider perspective of freedoms.

I guess you're not done with the personal attacks, after all. Pretty gruesome, newsbone, to strongly advise another member to have her genitals mutilated to quell her libido. Ick.

The girls who are raped do not participate in making the decisions that leads to being raped, the rapist’s right to unilateral control of the decision making process is the typical thinking you seem to propagate.

I see the rapist's "right" to unilateral control over his young victims as being equivalent to an adult's "right" to have sex with a minor. I just don't believe a 9 year old has the capacity to make a real choice (informed, aware) regarding sex with an adult, and that's the litmus test for rape -- no real choice. That's why they call it statutory rape. So I'd say you're interpreting my thinking backwards, because I don't give grant authority to these rapist's self-claimed "rights."