Cú Chulainn

1 "the promiscuous way in which American doctors circumcise males in childhood, a practice I highly disapprove of... constitutes, in [an] advertiser's phrase, 'a rape of the penis'. Until the forties, only the upper or educated classes were circumcised in the USA.

2 The REAL people were spared this humiliation. But during the affluent postwar years the operation became standard procedure, making money for doctors as well as allowing the American mother to mutilate her son in order that he might never forget her early power over him..."