A Tale Of The Head Of The Cock

December, 1983

or Child Abuse by Circumcision and the Liability of Parents, Physicians and HospitalsGod spake unto Abraham. Abraham then looketh upon the heavens and asketh: ''You want me to cut off my what?''Abraham was not the first to maim his tally-whacker; he was merely following an age-old tradition.Ancient Egyptian records speak of circumcision as a blood sacrifice for sexual purification. Among the East African Wakikuyu, the foreskin is buried in the ground in front of the boy from whom it was cut. The...