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It deliberately prevents boys from being protected from genital [[mutilation]] and thus promotes violence against boys.
It deliberately prevents boys from being protected from genital [[mutilation]] and thus promotes violence against boys.
Boys are thus granted fewer [[human rights]] than girls. [[Mayhem|Bodily harm]] against girls are thus given a criminal offense of their own, while bodily harm against boys, for which the same reasoning would apply, is ignored.<ref>{{REFweb
Boys are thus granted fewer [[human rights]] than girls. [[Mayhem|Bodily harm]] against girls are thus given a criminal offense of their own, while bodily harm against boys, for which the same reasoning would apply, is ignored.<ref name="manndat2009">{{REFweb
  |url=http://www.manndat.de/maennergesundheit/schreiben-an-bundestagsabgeordnete-zum-gesetzentwurf-genitalverstuemmelung.html
  |url=http://www.manndat.de/maennergesundheit/schreiben-an-bundestagsabgeordnete-zum-gesetzentwurf-genitalverstuemmelung.html
  |title=MANNdat-Schreiben an Bundestagsabgeordnete vom 07.06.2009
  |title=MANNdat-Schreiben an Bundestagsabgeordnete vom 07.06.2009
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* [[J. Steven Svoboda]], a Harvard-trained attorney for [[human rights]], estimates that boys and men are six times as likely to be victims of genital mutilation as girls and women.<ref name="Manndat"/>
* [[J. Steven Svoboda]], a Harvard-trained attorney for [[human rights]], estimates that boys and men are six times as likely to be victims of genital mutilation as girls and women.<ref name="manndat2009"/>


* Circumcision is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the world, currently an estimated 25 percent of the world's male population is circumcised.<ref name="wiki_circum"/>
* Circumcision is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the world, currently an estimated 25 percent of the world's male population is circumcised.<ref name="wiki_circum"/>
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  |url=http://www.medreports.de/medpdf/Rev12_04.pdf
|last=Balster
|first=Saskia
  |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050112031134/http://www.medreports.de/medpdf/Rev12_04.pdf
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|title=Phimosebehandlung mit betamethasonhaltiger Salbe
|trans-title=phimosis treatment with Ointment containing betamethasone
|language=German
  |journal=MedReview
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  |issue=12
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  |Text=In African countries, for example, circumcision is primarily regarded as an initiation rite for adolescents during puberty. The ability to endure the pain that comes with it is considered a prerequisite for becoming man in many tribes. Often it is a prerequisite for having a wife at all, as women attach importance to marrying a man who has endured this ordeal.
  |Text=In African countries, for example, circumcision is primarily regarded as an initiation rite for adolescents during puberty. The ability to endure the pain that comes with it is considered a prerequisite for becoming man in many tribes. Often it is a prerequisite for having a wife at all, as women attach importance to marrying a man who has endured this ordeal.
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  |ref=<ref name="manndat2009"/>
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