“He wanted his son to look like him,” is how many mother friends have put it to me, confidentially, with a wince. Some of them initially resist, but when it comes to matters of the penis – even their baby’s penis – most women give in. And as long as there were few risks, this is how they justified it to themselves. It can’t hurt, right?
Except that clearly it does hurt the baby. So why inflict pain if it’s not necessary? Why irrevocably change his perfect, healthy body for no medical reason?
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