Renowned Anthropologist Ashely Montagu on Forced Circumcisions

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His petition here: montagunocircpetition.org Excerpt one of his essays: It is, therefore, unrealistic to refer to such beliefs as barbaric or cruel, for that is not what they are conceived to be by the peoples whose lives they govern and to which they willingly conform. Fundamentally what must be understood is that, whatever the origins of circumcision beliefs and practices, they are the doing of men, and everywhere they appear to spring from the same motivation: the desire of men to ...