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The removal of the foreskin and penile skin by being cut off is called circumcision [Latin: circum = around, and cædere = to cut].A number of devices and contraptions used in conjunction with a scalpel have been invented to amputate the foreskin most often with as little skin left over as possible. Depending on the amount of skin cut off, circumcision robs a male of as much as 80 percent of his penile skin. Depending on the foreskin's length, cutting it off makes the penis as much as 25 percent shorter. Circumcised men carry permanent circumcision scars often as far as halfway down their shaft, the obvious and tell tale sign of the significant amount of skin that has been removed and lost.

Circumcision desensitizes the penis radically. Foreskin amputation means severing the rich nerve network and all the nerve receptors in the foreskin itself. Circumcision almost always damages or destroys the frenulum. The loss of the protective foreskin desensitizes the glans. Because the membrane covering the permanently externalized glans is now subjected to constant abrasion and irritation, it keratinizes, becoming dry and tough. The nerve endings in the glans, which in the intact penis are just beneath the surface of the mucous membrane, are now buried by successive layers of keratinisation. The denuded glans takes on a dull, greyish, sclerotic appearance. Careful anatomical investigations have shown that circumcision cuts off more than 3 feet of veins and arteries including the frenular artery and branches of the dorsal artery, interrupting normal blood flow to the shaft and glans of the penis, damaging its natural function and altering its development. The loss of 240 feet (73.2m) of nerves, and more than 20,000 nerve endings, means that the most erogenous zone of the male’s body is lost forever. The foreskin's muscles, glands, mucous membrane, and epithelial tissue are also destroyed as well. The long-term effects and the obvious extrapolation is that the more blood flow and nerves you have on your penis, the better sex feels…funny that...who would have thought? Thus circumcision is analogous to cutting off the male’s ‘clitoris’ or the petals of a flower.

The derision and hostility towards the foreskin from a number of cultures, communities, societies and traditions would seem to be so deeply entrenched as to be beyond belief. Everyday thousands of neonate boys, pre-pubescent boys, adolescent males as well as adult men endure the torture of having their foreskins circumcised, to satisfy the absurd ‘blood lust’ demanded by these elements of our ‘civilization’. Every 2 seconds there is a male circumcision taking place somewhere in the world. Little thought is given that the neonates and under aged boys cannot consent (nor would likely ever consent if given a choice) to having the most sensitive and sensual part of their bodies cut off nor that they are actually cutting off “the best part” of the male, forever altering his body. It is no doubt an attack on maleness and manhood because it is about chopping off a man’s hood and denuding and desensitising his penis, permanently destroying the protective, sensation laden foreskin. Moreover, on a deeper psychological level it is about male subjugation disempowerment and control.