The Common Denominator: Your Body is Not Your Own
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We live in a culture of selective horror. We scream at the headlines of trafficking and the depravity of the Epstein list, yet we shrug at the "routine" cutting of an infant’s genitals.
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We live in a culture of selective horror. We scream at the headlines of trafficking and the depravity of the Epstein list, yet we shrug at the "routine" cutting of an infant’s genitals.
We pretend these are different worlds, different categories of morality.
They aren’t.
If you are looking for the "how" behind the most horrific acts of child exploitation, stop looking at the perpetrators and start looking at the principle.
They aren’t.
If you are looking for the "how" behind the most horrific acts of child exploitation, stop looking at the perpetrators and start looking at the principle.
The common denominator between ritualized mutilation and the trafficking of children is the same dark logic: The sovereignty of the individual body is a myth.
The Psychopathy of Ownership
Whether it is a sterile hospital room, a religious ritual, or a dark room in a private
The Psychopathy of Ownership
Whether it is a sterile hospital room, a religious ritual, or a dark room in a private
island, the fundamental mechanism is identical:
The Erasure of Consent: The victim has no voice, no choice, and no way to defend their boundaries.
The Supremacy of the "Other": The child’s physical integrity is sacrificed to satisfy the desires, traditions,
The Erasure of Consent: The victim has no voice, no choice, and no way to defend their boundaries.
The Supremacy of the "Other": The child’s physical integrity is sacrificed to satisfy the desires, traditions,
or profits of an adult.
The Normalization of Trauma:
Once you accept that a child’s body can be modified or used without their permission "for their own good" or "by tradition," you have already opened the door for every other form of abuse.
The Normalization of Trauma:
Once you accept that a child’s body can be modified or used without their permission "for their own good" or "by tradition," you have already opened the door for every other form of abuse.
A Culture of Mutilation
We wonder how people can "traffic" children, but we have spent 4,000 years "trading" their physical wholeness for social acceptance. When you institutionalize the idea that an infant’s body is public property—subject to the whims of parents, priests,
We wonder how people can "traffic" children, but we have spent 4,000 years "trading" their physical wholeness for social acceptance. When you institutionalize the idea that an infant’s body is public property—subject to the whims of parents, priests,
or doctors—you kill the concept of bodily autonomy at the root.
If the body isn't sovereign in the cradle, it isn't sovereign in the shadows.
The Root is Psychopathy
This is not about "culture" or "religion." It is about a deep-seated, systemic psychopathy that views life
If the body isn't sovereign in the cradle, it isn't sovereign in the shadows.
The Root is Psychopathy
This is not about "culture" or "religion." It is about a deep-seated, systemic psychopathy that views life
as a commodity. It is the belief that power grants the right to supersede another human being's physical existence.
Every time we justify the "routine" cutting of a child, we are reinforcing the exact same lack of respect for life that predators use to justify their crimes.
Every time we justify the "routine" cutting of a child, we are reinforcing the exact same lack of respect for life that predators use to justify their crimes.
You cannot have it both ways. You cannot claim to protect children while you participate in their institutionalized mutilation.
The "Oh my god" outrage is a lie. As long as we allow the sovereign body to be superseded by the "needs" of the collective,
The "Oh my god" outrage is a lie. As long as we allow the sovereign body to be superseded by the "needs" of the collective,
we are providing the blueprint for the very monsters we claim to hate. 
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