First off, let's get one thing straight. The act of curcumcision, much like clitorectomy, is genital mutilation. Whether you argue in favor of or against the act, it is and will always be genital mutilation.

Having said that, I find it all too convenient that most men who have been curcumcised argue in favor of this appaling act while those who have not been curcumcised also -- conveniently -- argue against it. It would behoove the debaters of the world to step outside their own diminutive view point and adopt a bird's eye view.

If you're speaking in biblical terms, curcumcision existed in a time where desert dwellers accepted this practice as a matter of course. To this day, if you live in a desert environment and are not curcumcised, you can expect a lifetime of genital infections. In the desert it's HOT. There's not a lot of WATER. Bathing may be an infrequent activity and, as such, the glans of an uncucrumcised penis will accumulate an excess of bacteria. It's only natural that man would decide to forcefully shed their foreskin in hopes to avoid this kind of suffering. Over time this sort of activity becomes a ritual, no different than how eating has become a ritual.

Now, for the rest of us not wearing djellabahs and traipsing around the desert wastes, curcumcision serves no purpose whatsoever. I don't care what website you're reading or what "irrifutible" evidence you claim to have, it's an otherwise pointless act no different than piercing one's nipples! This notion that curcumcision helps keep (non-desert dwelling) men "cleaner" is pure rubbish. Such ignorant, Medieval beliefs must assume that all girls are "dirty" simply due to their biology. Ridiculous.

There are no benefits to genital mutilation in men unless you are born in, raised, and live evermore in a desert environtment. There are no benefits to genital mutilation in women whatsoever.

As an aside note, it's important to realise that aside from Jews and Muslims, the only people subject to genital mutilation are the barbarians in the United States, who adopted this practice from their Jewish and Muslim predecessors due to an abhorrent CHRISTIAN phobic paranoia of sex. These inept, psychopathic WACKOS were hacking off the foreskin of their boy's penises in hopes to prevent them from having the NATURAL desires of sex. My heart goes out to the victims of CHRISTIAN barbarism everywhere.