circumcision is mutilation period
as a circumcised male whom Daylia has not met, let me say yes, I regret having been circumcised

as to how it started in the US on non religious grounds let me suggest what was merely alluded to in a post above

a doctor could charge a couple of hundred dollars or whatever (I know it has fluctuated and increased over the years, so whatever it is today 2000 or so) for a normal delivery of a boy child.

Add a circumcision, quick snip and a little more work for the nurses but who cares now the doctor can bill for an additional surgical procedure. a money machine, pure and simple, though no doubt there may well have been dodctors who actually believed there might be some therapeutic reason for the procedure, most did it for the bucks. not for any good reason. mutilation not as severe as female circumcision, but no less wrong. can;t believe it still goes on, and can't accept the feeble argument from some men I know that they allowed thier sons to be circumcised so they wouldn't 'look different' then the fathers. how many of you had fathers that compared thier penises with you? or you ever accidentally got a look at? long ago time to put an end to this barbaric practice in secular society leave it to the tribal religions if they so choose, but I would even argue that there is no placve for genital mutilation of others in a humane society. If you are lucky enough to reach the age of reason or manhood or adulthood and decide that you want to be circumcised as a mark of your covenant with some god or other, or as a lark, or as a test, or for whatever other lamne reason you might think of that is your right, pay for it or do it yourself, but no one has the right to do that to a child. IMHO