Not a week goes by without someone suggesting I take out my cock so they can remove my foreskin. It is getting rather stressful, particularly in these wintry conditions when frankly I could do with every layer at my disposal.
Sadly, I was perusing the news when yet again it was reported that circumcision was great, just right, a veritable boon to mankind. I'm starting to take it personally.
Over the last few years a variety of studies, perhaps religiously or racially motivated, have suggested that stripping off my foreskin will reduce my chances of contracting AIDS by 50 per cent. The reasons for this the studies do not supply beyond suggesting the fleshy material therein is specifically targeted by the virus.
Now they are telling me that removing this naturally-occurring sheath will not inhibit my enjoyment of sexual matters.
Well I've already had enough of people telling me how circumcision makes you cleaner, and how the Jews have been doing it since they started worshipping Yahweh in particular, and how it may even increase the size of your manhood. I could get dragged into a basic discussion about how to contract HIV at this point, but the truth is I was born with my foreskin, it has never caused me any problems, and no amount of pseudo-moralising hiding behind a so-called scientific study will deprive me of it.
2008-01-07 @ 19:21