Georgia: Yes to Prince Alberts, no to Princess Annes
Female genital piercings will soon be illegal in Georgia. Your schlong, fine. Go ahead, get a Prince Albert, a dumbbell, get your member split in two, staple your scrotum to your leg for all we care. No problem. That's all fine by us. Just don't pierce your clit.
Why? Because it's a crime, okay? It just is. It's... its, its sick, and wrong, and I've never seen anything like that. It's wrong, and sick, and that makes it a crime, okay?
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The article mentions the
The article mentions the slippery slope, and frankly female genital mutilation is real and terrible. There are immigrants who still practice this here in the US, which is why it has been specifically outlawed as a federal statute. The entire point of female genital mutilation is for a girl to grow up into a woman who derives no pleasure from sex, and will therefore not be tempted to have sex outside of marriage. This isn't like male circumscision/mutilation because usually men retain their ability to have an orgasm, whereas women do not.
The piercing thing is a little different since usually you can't be a minor and walk into a piercing shop and ask for a procedure. There's a reason why some folks still go to a doctor to get their ears pierced. If a woman of age wants to get her coochie pierced, by all means. But it's her choice then, not her family's or her religious leader's.
The slippery slope is that if you allow a woman to self-inflict a wound down there, some folks might take that a step further into 'female circumscision.' I'm ont saying it's the same thing, but I see the point of the slippery slope argument here.
MG, I'm not sure I see how
MG, I'm not sure I see how the slippery-slope argument applies here. On one side we have adults willingly consenting to the decoration of their private bits. On the other we have the odious practice of forcible ritual mutilation of young girls for the sake of control & domination. How does one relate to the other except incidentally? It's like banning hand grenades and writing in a proviso to ban water balloons too.
I once had a long
I once had a long conversation with a professional body piercer who happened to be female. She told me she will not pierce the clitoris itself. She said that while some women claim to have heightened pleasure from such a piercing, others lose much or all sensation and can no longer achieve orgasm.
The libertarian side of me thinks folks should be allowed to do as they wish. The realistic side wonders whether this is an instance where we the people might limit freedom to prevent people from harming themselves. There is precedence: Russian Roulette isn't legal.