An American speaks of Circumcision

The recent German court ruling and controversy about circumcision has stirred up my thoughts like an intellectual coffee-spoon... and the conclusion I've come to is slightly jolting. Just what sort of an ice-blooded culture welcomes newborns to the world with a wrenching mutilation? Those scissors snap a cutting message: "kill or be killed, and keep fearful distance from women, nature, and love."

Having myself been spared by an Ashland doctor, I know that that area of soft flesh to be of immense sensual and emotional significance... as Europe's scientists have established. However, here, the ancient madness breaks as slowly as the melting glaciers that likewise indicate mainstream America has become enstranged from mother nature... and she smolders with imploring reproach, scolding that we should move closer to her.

We should start this move by lighting this vestigal field of the blood-thirsty, earthly life-negating dark ages, by allowing our sons to be natural males who trust their parents to protect them from needless damage... heirs of New Eden instead of a traditional Babylon, numbly begat and begat through centuries of repressed carnage, from Trafalgar to Fallujah... the missing peace has been with our own animal selves.