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The mass circumcision campaigns of the past have resulted in pandemic ignorance about the foreskin and its versatile role in human sexuality. Ignorance and false information about the remarkable foreskin are the rule in American medical literature, education, and practice. Most American medical textbooks depict the human penis, without explanation, as circumcised, as if it were so by nature. In current 21^st Century United States (supposedly one of the most advanced nations on Earth) the topic of circumcision generates heated debates whether or not to leave the foreskin intact or to circumcise it. Hygiene and cleanliness are given as the main reasons for it but there are also the motives of maintaining tradition, conformity to the ignorance of the ‘herd’ mentality and not wanting to be stigmatised if deviation from the ‘norm’ occurs. Social anxieties arising from peer and family pressure can make confused or uncertain parents succumb and buckle to circumcising their boys. Many North American adults both male and female have never seen an uncircumcised penis, so are likely to maintain the status quo when having a baby boy. The fear and hysteria generated by the pro-circumcision sector to the parents (particularly to the mothers) of newborn boys needs to be reversed and parental fears dissipated by factual information if any significant decrease in the circumcision rates in the U.S is to be achieved.

Just what is it about the foreskin that causes many men and women to cringe and shriek as if it were the most ‘vile’ thing in the world, when in fact it is an unbelievably intricate, sensual and aesthetic apparatus, which ought to be seen as the most valued part of a man’s body? Certainly the decades of circumcision propaganda from medical myths and lies which dominated those nations previously mentioned definitely caused the foreskin to be perceived negatively. However, there is a welcome change that the status of the intact penis is finally being given the validation that it deserves after many years of  anti-circumcision activism.

Foreskin Education needs to be promoted and everyone of both sexes need to be made aware of the foreskin’s functions and purpose as well as the joys, pleasures and ecstasies that the foreskin holds within its folds for both sexes. The beauty and aesthetic nature of the foreskin has an emotionally charged impact on those who value, treasure and revere it…the foreskin enthusiasts. The innocence and vulnerability of the human male seems all at once to be represented by his foreskin, especially the acroposthion.

Uncircumcised men need to take more pride in their foreskins (if they don’t already do so) and not view it as an embarrassment nor shameful …more importantly men need to recommence displaying their acroposthions, like the Ancient Greeks did… as if it were the most important part of their bodies. There is no longer the need to retract back the foreskin to seem ‘normal’ in change rooms, at nudist facilities, saunas or in places where men can be naked. To redress the balance men need to respect their foreskins, fear no more and not be shamed about showing the most treasured and important part of themselves. Uncircumcised men of the world display your ‘hoods’…proudly and prominently.