On the ‘foreth’ day of April, is…Foreskin Appreciation Day. Wouldn’t you know it, I have a book on that. In my library annex, (too many books fore just the Library Room) I have many bookcases. One is under lock and key-just to keep put prying eyes. I have opened it a few times fore guests, but I remember the words of a tour guide I met in Amsterdam. She said, “I know you are going to go the redlight district-everyone does. Don’t go there first. I just ask that you go to The Rembrandt House museum, or the Our Lord of The Attic museum, or the Anne Frank museum, or Van Gogh museum, or get a beer at the Dam square, or the crooked house, many places. The city has a lot to offer. Make the redlight district, just one memory of many, not the first and foremost.” So I never open the locked case fore anyone’s first visit. Or second.
This book is not really scandalous, just unusual. It is “In the Name of Humanity” by Joseph Lewis, 1949. The back cover has a letter from a doctor from Iowa Lutheran Hostpital. It states:
“Circumcision as a routine procedure is to be condemned. There are no general grounds, exclusive of ritualistic ones, to justify it. Unless indicated by definite surgical considerations, it becomes mere mutilation, as senseless as it is unworthy of a humane profession.”
The author explains the history of, health risks, and then psychological dangers of circumcisions, as he sees it. It is an interesting read, and a good addition to the library, not to be removed.
Thanks for reading.
Perhaps, you would like to read more. I did find fore bad jokes:
What does a foreman and a foreskin have in common? They both leave when the job gets hard.
What do you call a knight with no foreskin? Sir Cumcised.
If you have foresight, you can see something coming, If you have foreskin, nobody sees you coming.
What do they use to cut off a foreskin? Circumscissers. (And a cheap circumcision is a ripoff.)
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