Rick Moranis

There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.

Canadian Actor

Brad Sherman

Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.

American Politician

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

John Money

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

New Zealander Psychologist

Bob Saget

I've just never been a person that was political or religiously savvy. Except for the fact that I was born Jewish. That gives me 10 circumcision jokes.

American Actor

Judy Sheindlin

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

American Lawyer

Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.

Use 'circumcision' to refer to the medical procedure, not just any cutting.

Medical Accuracy

Circumcision can be a sensitive topic; discuss it with respect to cultural practices.

Cultural Sensitivity

Specify the type, such as 'male circumcision', if context doesn't make it clear.

Specifics Matter

Mention 'circumcision' in religious contexts to refer to a rite of passage.

Religious Context

In religious contexts, note that circumcision has specific timing, like on the eighth day after birth in Judaism.

Religious Timing

Understand that 'circumcision' symbolizes more than a physical act in religious texts.

Ceremonial Significance

'Circumcision' can be used figuratively to talk about cutting away metaphorical excess.

Beyond Literal

Figuratively, it can describe the process of personal development by shedding bad habits.

Personal Growth

 But that's enormously important for policy. We're spending so much money to try to replicate this campaign. And if it was only 50 percent as effective as we think that it was, then there are all sorts of other things maybe we should be spending our money on instead. Trying to change transmission rates by treating other sexually transmitted diseases. Trying to change them by engaging in male circumcision.

Emily Oster: What do we...

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 the confusion that I felt, because now I realized that what was done to me was a terrible thing that in this society was called barbaric, it was called mutilation. My mother had said it was called circumcision, but here it was mutilation.

Khadija Gbla: My...

 this is a room full of young men and my husband, Bill. And can you guess what the young men are waiting for? They're waiting to be circumcised. Can you you believe that? We know that circumcision reduces HIV infection

Melinda French Gates:...

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