Several million years of evolution resulted in a foreskin as a basically USEFUL adaptation. Somewhere in our misty past in the last several THOUSAND years, someone decided to interfere... perhaps as a 'beauty' enhancement? It would be interesting to know how & by whom it happened, because it is only rarely that any medical condition require any surgery of that sort!

I know that religion in various forms carries on this 'tradition', and it became almost a standard procedure even in non-Jewish groups in various countries. MY parents assumed it was the normal, usual thing to do. I was in high school before I was really aware how 'some' boys were different.

We decided against perpetuating the practice when my son was born.