[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

> “enormously powerful symbolic act of identity”.

That's revolting in a way. Identity OF THE PARENT, not of the baby who definitely doesn't know.

And maybe the teenager doesn't want to have that identity, but now it's too late

[odyssey7]

Also: given the historic role of circumcision in religious and cultural conversion, one could view infant circumcision as removing that possibility for certain religious or cultural conversions later in life. In this sense, it might be viewed as culturally immunizing as well as being a cultural marker.