Reply #76: Ah, the predictable subthread. Earliest documentary evidence is ancient Egypt, 4400 years ago [View All]

[Hekate]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_male_circumcision
Wikipedia's article is interesting in the sheer variety of potential reasons given for the practice.

As far as the grieving, anger, and castration-anxiety attached to the subject here, I have always thought that the historical record of several thousand years'-worth of fertile, active Jewish males ought to testify to the overall lack of harm to sexual life and pleasure.

But hey, what would I know. I just married one.

Hekate