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* '''"I want to keep my boy from [[Masturbation|masturbating]]."'''
*: [[Masturbation]] is something completely natural and part of the right to sexual self-determination. The excessive fight against the natural [[masturbation]] was the main motivation for the american doctor and rassist [[John Harvey Kellogg]] to propagate [[circumcision]] all over the United States of America.
* '''"If we ban it here, it is done illegaly or abroad."'''
*: This so-called 'backyard' argument can be applied to almost all statutory, punitive bans and is just absurd. It is also listed in debates about drug addiction, abortion and [[FGM|female genital mutilation]]. During the [[Circumcision Debate]] 2012 in Germany, the author [[Harald Stücker]] has explained in a recommended article<ref>{{REFweb
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*: They who still want to do something legally prohibited, will not be quenched by law at all. Arguing that legal banning would lead to dodging into illegality, should result in a situation where all criminal laws could be abolished.
== Compare bans ==
Comparisons are legitimate elements of any discussion, since comparison is a basic, perception-based method that leads to finding similarities and differences between topics or objects. It is therefore always legitimate to compare, even if the subjects or objects to be compared do not have the same characteristics. The comparison can lead to the result that the compared topics or objects are the same, or that they are similar or very different.
=== MGM and FGM ===
* '''"Female genital mutilation and male circumcision must not be compared."'''
*: This killer argument is often used to end a discussion about the similar violation of human rights. It is often ignored that the [[WHO]] has published a gradation catalog for different types of [[FGM]], according to which the "mildest" forms of [[FGM]] are far more harmless than the usual form of [[MGM]], which almost always means a complete removal of the [[foreskin]]. In addition, the choice of words ("genital mutilation" vs. "circumcision") tries verbally to reinforce the difference between [[FGM]] and [[MGM]].
== Religious arguments ==