Every couple of years there is an international symposium on genital cutting of unconsenting minors. The presenters include psychologists and psychiatrists. They come from various backgrounds and approaches, but are unanimous in their statement that people support infant circumcision because they have unconscious, deeply-embedded, disturbed feelings about the genitals and sexuality in general.

I know of a non-jewish woman whose baby boy died 2 years ago after a normal circumcision. Guess what? She said if she has another son, she'd have him cut, too.

You can give these folks thousands of pages of pro-intact material, and show them the grisliest photos & videos of babies with grossly damaged sex organs caused by genital cutting, and they will just stare at this information with glazed eyes. It's not getting through.

You can show them medical reports on babies whose stomach actually burst from screaming during the procedure, and it is like they are reading a comic or something; nothing registers.

You can have the world's physiologists tell them of the purposes and functions of the male foreskin, and it's like you never said a thing.

You can describe tragedy after tragedy, and all you are told in return is that "it was caused by human error and negligence". Well, Russ, WHEN will that great day occur that it IS done "properly", and what do we do in the meantime? I'd appreciate an answer.

Suppose it was YOUR son whose penis was so butchered that he had to hide himself forever because of his abnormal appearance? I have seen photos of such babies and men. I knew a man years ago whose circumcision was so tight he just couldn't "do it" properly and when he tried, he couldn't feel a thing. What, precisely, would you say to this man if he gave you hell for defending circumcision? Just a plain, simple answer will do. And don't quote the bible, because he is not religious and doesn't care what the bible says.

By the way, your biblically-based defence of genital cutting of unconsenting minors is not consistent with other religiously-ordained practices, in my view. The ancient Hebrews used to stone adulteresses and execute delinquent sons, for just 2 small examples. Are you prepared to defend those practices, also? And slavery - the ancient jews (and some not so ancient) kept slaves. And God approved of all of these things! Why don't you approve of them too? You can't just pick & choose.