Letters to the Editor
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Signs of the times
As far as demonizing others, I can only imagine you are refering to my suggestion that some people may need psychological help.
And indeed, I DO think that is a fully functioning man is determined to go through yet ANOTHER unnecessary procedure to restore the foreskin, then, yes, his problem is psychological, not revolving around his foreskin.
For all the merits of NOT circumcising (of which, I still say "why bother" is the most powerful), the individuals arguing in favor of that perspective are chock full of freakshows and aggressors who clearly see themselves as the front of some new revolution in human perspective. This, I think is WAY overboard. In fact a goodly number of the Intactivists seem to think there is a cabal of pro-circumcision fanatic out there, fabricating pro-circumcision studies. There is no such cabal.
Perhaps there are merely some health benefits AND downsides to the practice. Indeed, in reading, some doctors usggested that uncircumcised men over 40 suffered statistically significant increase in several disorders and infections -- I apologise I do not recall; lest I am accused of having done a bit of investigation and being obsessed myself, I will leave that to another time.
But bullying people, calling them barbarians and savages etc. will not help the cause. And now that I have been thinking about it since the last post, I don't think many men would like to have someone refer to their glans penis as a 'dried husk' as one particularly 'engaged' advocate did... and in fact I am sure this will win over few souls and foreskins.