Intactivists, in short, are winning the online battle. Is it only a matter of time until they win the greater war?

Zu explizit. Man weiß ja, es zu tun ist legal, es zu zeigen, nicht.

"So please, Slate (and Mark Stern if you’re reading this), I respectfully submit that the foreskin is not a birth defect. Neither is it a congenital deformity or genetic anomaly akin to a 6th finger or a cleft. Neither is it a medical condition like a ruptured appendix or diseased gall bladder. Neither is it a dead part of the body, like the umbilical cord, hair, or fingernails.

The foreskin is not "extra skin." The foreskin is normal, natural, healthy, functioning tissue, with which all boys are born; it is as intrinsic to male genitalia as labia are to female genitalia."

"My best guess is that your views on circumcision are rather heavily informed by (and perhaps even constrained by) the default norms of American society, which sees non-therapeutic genital cutting* of boys to be an unremarkable affair. Your mostly-American readers, therefore, may happily lap up your attack on “intactivists” as being right on the money. But the US has a very strange history in adopting circumcision as a cultural norm; circumcision has become uniquely and unthinkingly embedded in American medical practice; and the rest of the developed world views us** with a mix of curiosity and disbelief. Why do Americans continue to circumcise their sons? It is not exactly crazy to take this question seriously.

"It's not circumcision that broke the Internet, but rather the Internet that helped break the silence about circumcision."

Many parents are taking the approach, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." While it is true that a minority of infants later require surgeries, most don't and live their lives just fine. Seventy percent of the men in the world are not circumcised nor suffering from the fact that their penises remain intact.
Think again Mr. Stern. It's not circumcision that broke the Internet, but rather the Internet that helped break the silence about circumcision. If you think that there is too much information out there about the reasons not to circumcise, you and like-thinkers should get busy explaining the pro-circumcision arguments.