Re: come on...

My god, the misery that circumcision has caused to so many boys and young men! I've seen that misery at first hand for myself. And of course your exact same argument must logically apply to female circumcision as well; exposing the vaginal opening and clitoris, "as erotic as nudity itself", no more problematic than "spreading the buttocks". Yep, spreading the buttocks is an exact analogy to irreversible cutting away of genital tissue! Look, I have nothing against your fetish, or against anyone's fetish, nor, for prgamatic reasons, would I prohibit religious circumcision (despite "religious reasons" for genital cutting being, as Kenneth Dover pointed out, a contradiction in terms), but your aesthetic preferences are certainly not more objective than mine, and at least I have the Greeks and the Renaissance on my side. Taking the knife to the genitals of small boys, causing irreversible damage when they are totally helpless to resist, despite its complete medical non-necessity, will always remain horrible to me.