If those nerve endings were discarded sometime in 1988, then it has no way to offer a riposte. Shame on everyone who just commented- you’re all guilty of genitalism.

She said that it is controversial and maybe half the people think it is part of Islam.

Don’t ask for, or expect, my acquiescence in the murder or mutilatation of anyone, and especially any interference with a juvenile without the ability to give informed consent.

preventing parents circumcising their children would be discriminatory
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Sorry Nick but that’s just tough. It pales into complete insignificance in comparison with our duty to protect children from unneccessary surgical interference. I’m not signing up to some screwball notion that I have a duty to discriminate against some children, and only extend my duty of protection to the others. It’s all or nothing. We have to have principles, and they have to be rational and consistently applied within our territory.

At the risk of inducing snickers, might I suggest that if you had ever seen a circumcised penis, you might be a little better informed. As a gay man now living in the US, I have seen many, and I can tell you that scarring is standard. Almost all the ones I have seen have a ring scar half-way up the shaft, marking a clear change in colour. Many have scar tissue below the glans, where the foreskin was scraped away. And the glans are very different, rendered dry and calloused by permanent exposure.

From experience, I can tell you the desensitisation of the glans does not prolong sexual intercourse. It does make it more difficult for the penis to become erect, and that may well mean that circumcised boys avoid those embarrassing erections on the bus, but I don’t believe the price is worth paying. No experienced women seek out sex with circumcised men in the vain belief that they last longer – just perhaps a few young ladies as uninformed on the matter as yourself.

Finally, the notion others have put forward that a ban on performing uneccessary genital modification on children would outlaw Judaism, is absolute nonsense. As Joshua Scholar says, it would merely lead Jewish culture to change. Some Jews have already changed in this way; circumcision is not universal amongst Jews (or Muslims). While circumcision is not the same as female genital mutilation, the notion that outlawing it would criminalise Judaism or force Jews out, is the same as the notion that criminalising FGM has criminalised Islam or forced certain African ethnic groups out.

You and the Rambam are talking nonsense. All things considered, circumcision renders the glans less super-sensitive. Often, this means that the man can prolong intercourse and give himself and his female partner more pleasure before he reaches orgasm.
Many experienced women are keen to have sex with Jewish men for this very reason.

Fucking disgusting! [Spit!]

Each of you should be totally ashamed of yourself.

There’s the BNP thugs proving how non-antisemitic they are.