This boy is a proud possum.

Here's a given, circumcised dicks are prevalent across the American landscape. So in terms of new sexual encounters, it's understandable to get a little weirded-out if you chance upon a Johnson pushing up through a skin turtle-neck. If you do encounter a blind Willy, here's a few tips:

1. Get educated.
2. Pull it back!

Seriously, if you pull back the foreskin to expose the head, it will look every bit like a circumcised ("normal") penis. Yay! No more weirdness. It's almost a requirement for safe sex anyway. Now support the cause and join our increasingly popular facebook group!

now,
This boy is going to rant.

Circumcision is genital mutilation. Period.

Our western culture is shocked and apalled (as am I) at the idea of female circumcision in other cultures. Yet, we consider male circumcision as healthy and normal? Give me a break.

Modern day circumcision is the result of the constant perpetuation of an antiquated cultural myth started by fears of *gasp* masturbation and sexual pleasure. Victorian society believed that in order to enforce its moral code upon the individual, it needed to do so with a swift punishment at birth; a sexual preemptive strike.

"Doctors in the English-speaking countries started circumcising babies in the mid-1800s to prevent masturbation, which some doctors claimed caused many diseases, including epilepsy, tuberculosis and insanity." (more on that here)

This historical medical ideology enables current day parents to modify their son's genital aesthetic; often so he can "look just like daddy" or so "the boys won't pick on him in the locker room." This sickens me. Parents (with the support of American hospitals everywhere) are willing to put their infant through trauma-inducing pain and bodily mutilation just so their little boy can have a pee pee that looks like the rest.

It's scary how much us Americans fear individuality.

It is true though, circumcisive surgery has a few medical benefits. All of which are remedied simply by common sense: proper hygiene and safe sex. The risks of scarring, botched surgery, and infections are much higher and potentially worse than the uncircumcised medical risks. It's also true that the foreskin contains the most sensitive parts of the penis. And even in the face of conflicting studies, there's no denying that there is lost sensitivity (duh!).

My conclusion: circumcision at birth is a political and social attack on the sexual freedoms of the individual. You are evil if you still support it.