The Playboy Forum

July, 1983

Wack-OJohn Erickson's letter opposing circumcision (The Playboy Forum, April) cannot go unanswered.Probably, the original reason procircumcisionists advocated the procedure was to preserve the health of the baby's dick when he grew up. My grandfather was uncircumcised. He spent months in trenches of World War One and was unable to bathe or to wash himself. As a result, his foreskin became a repository of smegma, loose change, pieces of straw and what not, until it was bulging like a hippie kid's...