I was circumcised as an adolescent which eliminates many of the dangers of being done as a child. In our tradition it is seen as an entry into manhood and for this reason I chose not to have any anaesthetic. I was also whipped across my bare back. Like the circumcision,it hurt like hell but it made a man out of me.Personally I think a circumcised penis looks better and more manly and I am proud to have been circumcised.Maybe if more boys growing into manhood were circumcised and given a good whipping there would be fewer young men trying to "prove" themselves in all sorts of antisocial ways.Circumcision and the whip were the pillars of my education as a teenager and it hs kept me on he straight path.