Circumcision...

What’s a foreskin worth? Well, according to an article on the Guardian website, it’s £20,000. That’s how much a man was paid in compensation, after the staff at Leicester Royal Infirmary mixed up his notes; instead of having botox treatment, he was circumcised. Circumcision is an entirely unnecessary surgical procedure, with no medical justification, generally undertaken for religious reasons. How typical of the religious to focus forensically on the genitalia: the source of so much of their own angst and sexual repression.

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