Quote Originally Posted by deathbyvalley
to you it might be, but in judaism and islam, they're prescribed rituals.
That is 100% correct. And so is female circumcisiion in some cultures. Both of these procedures are wrong.

In the U.S., more males (mostly infants) die because of botched circumcision procedures, than from penile cancer or other related medical problems intact men may get.

Just because a kid will have to learn to brush his teeth is no excuse to pull them out, and the same goes for foreskins.

BTW, some Mohels (Jewish professional circumcisionists) actually BITE and chew the foreskin off the babies!