Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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Joel Smart describes the origins of circumcision in the United States:

"The true origins of circumcise are seemingly lost in antiquity, although many theories exist. However, in America, non-religious circumcision became popularized only in the mid-1800s during the highly puritanical Victorian era. Although there are many ideas as to why the practice is done today, the original motivation was to prevent children from masturbating (which was called self-abuse at the time, due to the belief that it caused disease, insanity and death).

Dear Betty,

I got to play with my first un-circumcised penis the other day! I was only giving a hand job, no penetration yet, but I was fascinated and a bit thrown off and found I had to alter my technique.

Anyways, you mentioned in your most recent video that "unless they are un-circumcised, its dry." I had never heard these correlated before, but after searching the rest of this blog I found Carlin explaining in a post that:

Conversations about circumcision are really important.  As I strongly recommend women become fully informed when pregnant and giving birth - that they fully understand the implication of all the choices they make -  I strongly recommend parents do the same with regard to circumcision.

As with everything else in parenting you can only do what feels most deeply right to you as you are the one raising the child, and this applies to circumcision. Your family, religion and friends are not raising your son and there will, undoubtedly be many decisions you make that break from the expectations of those around you and circumcision may be one. Make the decision that you know, in your heart, to be right.

As if you needed another reason to love Russell Crowe, he took to twitter with a rant on circumcision:

"Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect."

After some pro-circumcision tweets he continued:

"I will always stand for the perfection of babies, i will always believe in God, not man's interpretation of what God requires," he wrote, before continuing, "last of it, if u feel it is yr right 2 cut things off yr babies please unfollow and f**k off,I'll take attentive parenting over barbarism."

Then, he switched gears and spoke about his views on abortion:

No, I'm not kidding - foreskin man is a new superhero "frustrated by societys failure to protect its most vulnerable citizens, Foreskin Man has taken up the fight against male genital mutilation.

Aided by the power of his technologically advanced plasma boots, Foreskin Man flies above the city to hunt down criminals who cut the genitals of innocent boys.

It is the dawn of a new era. Circumcisers, beware!"

via Blame Rage

Every morning when I first get up, I immediately go to the computer and bring up our website. Each time, I'm utterly amazed at the speed and ease of the internet. Thanks to Ted Nelson, the brilliant creator of this medium, I am instantly in touch with the whole wide world. Maybe it's my age, but I never cease to marvel at the potential of this kind of communication.

Today, I accidentally ended up on a page that had viewer responses to my article on male circumcision. As I reread them, I again realized how many thoughtful people had shared their ideas and feelings on the subject, including a few men who called me out on some of my statements. And get this, I agree with what many of my critics said. Yes, I made some brash statements with no data to back them up but I wrote that essay after I'd just watched the video clip showing a baby being circumcised. It actually sickened me as I observed this infants suffering while two adult males, one a doctor and the other his father, simply stood by and allowed this to happen to a helpless baby that was put into restraints. Still in an emotional state, I typed out my response to this unnecessary procedure.