I'm not circumcised, like the vast majority of men the world-over. I've never had any complaints at all about taste or cleanliness; in fact, most of the women I've been with find penetration more comfortable, and seem to have great fun sliding the foreskin back and forth... go figure. It's absolutely not medically necessary to circumcise. in the vast majority of cases. Prophylactic circumcision makes no more sense than prophylactic mastectomy or testicle removal.

Very few men experience problems later in life, and in many cases for those that do there are simple non-surgical alternatives available. Biologically speaking, it's the same piece of skin that makes up the clitoral hood in women, and I don't know many women who advocate removing the clitoral hood from their newborn girls. The prevalence of routine circimcision in the States is largely rooted in the Victorian era when physicians thought putting carbolic acid on the clitoris was a good idea.

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Steph:

Female circumcision in predominantly Islamic countries is largely due to Pre-Islamic tribal customs and certain superstitions which persist into modern times, although circumcision isn't really an apt word... it's more or less excision of the labia and/or clitordectomy. Circumcision would be removal of the clitoral hood, which is analogous to removing the male foreskin.