Why Are Intactivists Up In Arms About Male Circumcision?

In 2018 Eric Clopper, a systems administrator at Harvard, staged a one-man show at the university’s Sanders Theatre. In Sex and Circumcision: An American Love Story – a two-and-a-half-hour-long mixture of monologue, PowerPoint and performance art – Clopper made a passionate, if factually questionable, case against male circumcision, accusing his Jewish faith of being a “genital mutilation cult” that has “raped essential elements of men’s humanity” and had a “demonstrably evil influence” on America…