Childbirth vs Circumcision During the 20th century, more than 120 million foreskins were severed from American penises.  Of course these days there is a marked movement to render obsolete this archaic 'male genital mutilation'. Briefly, on the subject of Childbirth, our dear mothers told us that this was ultimate womanhood and, that it was going to be, among other things, a pain we would soon forget. Some of us girls were fortunate enough in the 1960/1970's  (I am talking baby boomer crowd here) to have mothers who actually had the where-with-all to at the very least, sensibly explain th...