if you believed your faith were compelling you wouln't feel obliged to deny jewish boys the choice to adhere to its tenets. there's no reason a man cannot be circumcised at 18 if he believes his relation to God depends on it.
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Even if I grant you that circumcision has negative psychological effects, I think that enduring that kind of social isolation throughout your entire childhood would be far, far worse.
a man who feels he has been deliberately emasculated by his own parents faces issues that may last a lifetime. for many misinformed parents the "deliberate" may not apply, but in the jewish ritual context it cannot but be a deliberate act.
