It is currently fashionable to counsel parents against routine neonatal circumcision as an unnecessary operation.
There has been a strong, vocal, and emotive anti-circumcision movement which promulgated highly emotive reports using terminology such as "penile plunder" and "rape of the phallus", 2,3 Morgan's article "Rape or the Phallus", which is credited with starting the anti-circumcision crusade, contains nothing of substance.