circumcision

   I have tried  before to write about circumcision, but it's hard to tell if people understand when you can't be present to answer questions--or when they don't seem to know how to ask them.  Once more, the fact--nearly every man in America is circumcised--Christians, Jews, atheists and everyone else. Circumcision has been standard medical practice in American hospitals for generations. It's one of the things many people thought would come to an end, thirty or forty years ago--and yet not a dent seems to have been made in the all-too-common ignorance on the subject.
    For those of you who believe that you are sure that there is no difference between an uncircumcised male and a circumcised male--you have been comparing circumcised males with circumcised males--not circumcised males with uncircumcised males. If you have been, shall we say, scientific enough to try to compare a gentile ( non-Jew)  and a Jew in this way, your mistake was in assuming that the gentile was uncircumcised. 
     This discussion began with a young man I thought must be outrageously ignorant--who thought himself quite knowledgeable about sex, psychology, and so on--and yet it seems to be the typical mindset. He didn't know that he was circumcised, and had to show himself to a man who could tell him.

Suggestion--better biology classes--we didn't have sex education when I was in school, but we did have biology, including human reproduction--circumcision wasn't mentioned., and it should have been.