[quote=CA renter]We’re not in disagreement at all (see my previous post on this thread). Just wanted to note that some adult men do have to be circumcised, and that it’s (supposedly) an even more painful and traumatic surgery at a later age.[/quote]
Understood, no need to qualify the statements. At a later age most surgeries become more difficult, certainly much more so in late adulthood. I think the penis develops through puberty, so maybe there is an argument for doing it before puberty. But immediately after birth? That’s just weird!
It’s as though we are trying to make the baby boy as God intended him, and it must be done as soon as possible. Jewish people believe this.
Or we feel it ought to be done for moral purity, and it’s much easier to talk dazed parents into it the first day after birth than if they get the kid home and get used to him intact.
The surgery could become utterly ridiculous if attempted in adulthood, and that still wouldn’t justify doing it to unconsenting babies. That might justify doing a careful analysis of the penis at, say, one year old to determine if he is a candidate for the issues that would necessitate later circumcision.
Most women would be happier wearing pointy shoes if their little toes were gone. Few would attempt the surgery as an adult, but none would suggest that little toes should be routinely amputated from baby girls.
