Court Ordered Mutilation and the Case Against Circumcision

I am against circumcision, but I wasn’t always.I used to think it was the “normal” thing to do, as every penis I had ever seen was circumcised. The assumed benefits of the procedure coupled with the understanding that any possible trauma would evaporate into the ether of newborn memory outweighed the brutality of it. I couldn’t believe that American society at large as well as pediatricians and obstetricians would allow and even embrace a painful medical procedure that wasn’t beneficial.