Round and round we go - just like the surgeon's (or rabbi's) knife. This is an everlasting subject and don't you get sick of it? It seems to fascinate some, however. So forgive me if I repeat a post I've already stuck up elsewhere.
Circumcision is a last desperate medical resort, or should be. But it's not
as sensible as that. Like much else, it had its origins in religion (always suspect) and then became culturally fashionable, especially in north America and among the English middle classes; not so sure about continental Europe. It's now largely going out of fashion, and a good thing too. Basically it is an amputation of part of the penis, which is strange, as most men want more, not less. I wonder if there would be defenders of the ancient cultural tradition of lopping off a person's ears (I don't know if this has ever existed, but it well could) first on religious grounds, then on the grounds of aesthetic streamlining, and then on the grounds of cleanliness?
Sounds outrageous? But only because our tradition has never practiced it. It has circumcised instead.