On circumcision

Ouch!

 

Once upon a time a flamewar was had about the subject of male circumcision on soc.motss. OK, it occurred regularly with twits presuming to know our sexual pleasure better than us. But one time in particular there was an exchange that resulted in an exchange that perfectly set up Steven Levine to finish the job:

From: Steven Levine (steven@cray.com)
             Subject: Re: Having an Affect on the Outcome
             Newsgroups: soc.motss
               View: Complete Thread (1147 articles) | Original Format
             Date: 1998/11/03


            foultone@mtcc.com (Charlie Fulton) writes:

            > I can slam my dickhead in a drawer, yet I can't feel it.


            Michael Thomas writes:
            >  One of the great things about being mutilated is
            >that I can pound the head of my dick with a hammer
            >and watch it turn pretty shades of black and blue.


            Oh piffle.  You boys don't know what it means to

            have religious justification.  When *I* slam my dickhead

            in a drawer, I am doing it to fulfill my covenant with

            the Lord.  When *I* pound the naked scarrified mass of
            cells at the crown of my penis with a hammer,

            I am doing it in the name of the God of

            Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


            "Barchu baruch Shmo" I say, when I behold the

            mutilated stump of the dick that once was.  "Baruch

            atah adonai elohenu melech haolam shelo asani
            goy" I shout to the hills, and, of course, the

            ever-subtextual "shelo asani esha".



            -Steven Levine
             steven@sgi.com

Ba-dum-ching!