Circumcision: How does it work?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My understanding of why it became the cultural norm in America is that it stems from a time when most children were not born in hospitals. Since circumcision was performed by a doctor and meant you were able to afford a hospital birth, it became a class indicator and, like many other class indicators, was quickly adopted by people who didn't want their neighbors to think they were one of those poor folk who had to plop the baby out into the washtub.

I just had this image of the Astors walking around with their johnsons hanging out, to show off.

As for my personal opinion on it, I think that performing circumcisions on infants for whom it is not medically necessary is a goddamn abomination. How about I come cut part of YOUR dick off and don't give you a choice in the matter?

Just think of it as preparing them for the free market.

[The Wizard Joseph]

I often wonder how the human race survived before circumcision.

And if it IS divinely mandated, what's God trying to say?  "Oh, sorry, there was a bit of a gap in the mold, and you'll have to cut the flash off the product."

Ironically, the Jewish tradition is because YHVH said it would separate Abraham's children from the rest of the world, since Abraham was his buddy and he had promised Abraham that the 'seed'/'messiah' would come through his line. Poor Abe was in his 90's at the time. There was no mention by old YHVH that it was a health issue, but rather that it was a token of the covenant between Abraham and YHVH.

"You're my friend, to prove we're friends, please cut of a bit of your penis. Also cut off a bit of your son's penis and make every male in your lineage cut off a bit of their penis. Here's a nice sharp chunk of flint."

See, sounds just like YHVH, with friends like him... you're fucked. 

I don't necessarily believe any of the Sumerian mythos and the modernizations by Sitchin, but the "Lost Book of Enki" or whatever seems to indicate that the first people made as workers by the Annunaki were notable in that they had reddish skin and that their members had a foreskin. Apparently the 'Nnaki did not.  It's a mark of servitude. 
So only the anteaters and women folk of our planet are truly able to be free. 

Personally had the choice made for me, but it's interesting to note that the process of "converting" to Judaism requires it.  Even if it's already happened there's still a special ceremony and a sacred needle. Seems that there must be blood to get in on the covenant.  I only know this because my mother converted a few years back and was adopted by an elderly and sweet old woman.  I was offered the opportunity to join and had this conversation for real.  I declined, but talk about a way to ensure the sincerity of interested parties!

now that you put it that way, missionaries are just trying to export freedom

there was this thing about having a special connection to god if you were an eunuch, wonder why that idea never really caught on?

Ahem .. catholic priests? Okay so they don't get surgical but it's pretty much the same thing.

Wait... eunuchs rape altar boys?

They do if you leave their junk attached 

Or find a suitable prosthesis...