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'''Barbara Kay''' has generalized and exaggerated female circumcision and the societies and religions that practice it, while praising male circumcision for having been practiced for "thousands of years." She is an advocate for circumcision, particularly infant circumcision, and regularly promotes it in her articles on the National Post. In her article, she decried FGM, saying it is done "with the specific intention of eliminating the capacity for sexual pleasure, and rightly considered a criminal action" and contrasted it with MGM (despite admitting male circumcision also leads to "diminished pleasure").<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Kay | first=Barbara | coauthors= | url=http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/24/barbara-kay-on-circumcision-a-painless-live-saving-surgery/ | title=Barbara Kay on circumcision: A painless, live-saving surgery | date=Jan 24, 2011 | publisher=Postmedia Network: National Post | quote= | accessdate=
}} [http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/File:Barbara_Kay_on_circumcision.pdf Archive]</ref> She however spun this as positive, claiming circumcised men have "greater pre-orgasmic endurance" (and implied this solidified long-term relationships).
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}}</ref> She had learned of Doughart's article before it was to be published, due to her son being the comments editor at the paper. In response, she prepared her own article, which then appeared in the paper at the same time as Doughart's. Kay praises circumcision for having been practiced for thousands of years (Kay is Jewish), and likens this to a "massive controlled study of Jewish and Muslim men, from which no negative effects can be ascribed to male circumcision." She compares circumcision to a vaccine and dismisses sex education and condom use as "not working in significant numbers."<ref>{{REFnews
| last=Kay | first=Barbara | coauthors= | url=http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/24/barbara-kay-on-circumcision-a-painless-live-saving-surgery/ | title=Barbara Kay on circumcision: A painless, live-saving surgery | date=Jan 2011-01-24, 2011 | publisher=Postmedia Network: National Post | quote= | accessdate=
}} [http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/File:Barbara_Kay_on_circumcision.pdf Archive]</ref>
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| Title=Barbara Kay on circumcision: ''A painless, live-saving surgery'' | Text='Mutilation' is a disgusting word to apply to the excision of a non-essential bacteria trap, nearly painless and instantly forgotten (those who claim otherwise are fantasizing; no credible study demonstrates lasting effects). Unlike ordinary circumcised men, FGM victims know they have been mutilated in the real sense of the word. Feminists constantly remind us that men have all the power. If true, how is it that after so many thousands of years — coincidentally up to the advent of the sexual revolution and the privileging of erotic freedom over ethical mating — so many millions of intelligent and even powerful Jewish and Muslim males never spoke up about their alleged victimhood?
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Set aside the rights-based rhetoric. It’s about sex: Circumcised men have greater pre-orgasmic endurance; non-circumcision permits more frequent ejaculations. What matters most to the anti-circumcision activists is their diminished pleasure with frequently changing sexual partners, as befits an era where the number of conquests is a more common metric of romantic success than long-term relationships.
| Author= | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/24/barbara-kay-on-circumcision-a-painless-live-saving-surgery/ Kay, B. (2011, January 24). A painless, live-saving surgery. ''National Post''] [http://circleaks.org/images/c/c9/Barbara_Kay_on_circumcision.pdf Archive]</ref>
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| Title= | Text=8:08: The pain lasts only ten seconds.
8:50:What if there were vaccinations against something that would only happen in adulthood, but if you waited 'till adulthood to have that vaccination, it would be a horribly painful procedure? Would it not be kinder to give the vaccination in childhood when there's no complications and the pain last only ten seconds?<br>
<small>'''Note:''' This is the second time that Kay asserts the pain of circumcision only lasts ten seconds.</small>
27:49; Many children are aborted with out their consent, and that hasn't brought about anti-abortion legislation [...]
| Author= | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.charlesadler.com/2011/01/barbara-kay-and-jackson-doughart-on-circumcision.html Adler, Megarry, Tsirgiotis. (2011, January 24). To cut or not to cut? ''CharlesAdler.com.'']</ref>
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