The real agenda behind male genital mutilation in the US

[clowny]

"Men and women who are denied emotional fulfillment in human relationships must seek it elsewhere, and frequently channel their energies into the abstracted and manipulable meanings and rewards of state-sanctioned institutions such as workaholism/consumerism, professional sports (a surrogate for nationalism), statist religions and the ultimate form of state servitude, soldiering. Interfering with the sexual compatibility and satisfaction of men and women likely strongly affects mass social organization. Thus MGM's social utility goes far beyond mere fertility control, into the realm of generalized social control."

This is from the website: http://www.whale.to/a/winkel.html

So there you have it. Male genital mutilation is a control mechanism. But there is much more to this...if you click on the link "Social Theory and Biocomplexity" in the contents at the top of the page, it will take you straight to the part where I got the above paragraph from. VERY interesting reading.