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i'm happily uncircumcised. Hate to go on a tangent, but i disagree with circumcision even for religious reasons. Doing it at birth seems like a way to guarantee a population within the religion. waiting until an individual has the choice to go through circumcision would make the process actually meaningful to that person religously and spiritually.
Having spoken with a rabbi on the matter, I found out that most Jewish Rabbi go with a "free hand" operation that's relatively fast, where as hospitals use a device called a 'bell clamp' which involves strapping the child so it is immobile. It's been awhile since i did the paper.
to clarify on female circumcision: it's a regional thing. In some regions it involves "trimming" the labia, while in other's it involves a full removal of the clitoris. Learned this in anthropolgy from a professor who saw the operations performed.
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