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What a great round of letters. The bumbpersticker actually confused me, too, because it pictured part of a pair of scissors on it - made me wonder if maybe there was someone dumb enough out there to not know what a foreskin is. I actually dated a guy once who didn't know he'd been circumcised - his mother never bothered to tell him, and it just never occured to him that it might have happened. So I kind of assumed that some people just don't know the difference.
I didn't realize that people were so vehemently opinionated on this topic, either. Circumcision is standard in my religion (mind you, we do it much later, at age 8 - and a big party is thrown around the occasion), and I don't know anyone (family or friends) who is longing for his long-lost foreskin. I mean, it's not a topic at the dinner table or anything, but even men I've been intimate with seem to consider it a very mundane issue. Are most of the intactivists here female? Just curious.
And, to the poster who equated male circumcision and female circumcision - don't. Men are circumcised to prevent infections (sure, showering should be able to do the trick, but it doesn't always). Circumcised men are able to have rewarding sex lives in the same way that uncircumcised men are. Female circumcision, on the other hand, is meant to take away her ability to enjoy sex. If male circumcision completely removed the penis, then you could make the comparison. Otherwise, bugger off. They're completely different.
