The Centers for Disease Control is currently weighing whether to recommend the circumcision of boys and men in the United States. If the CDC finds that a circumcision recommendation would reduce the risk of HIV among American men, I think that’s swell. Providing people with information to help protect themselves from disease is a wonderful thing. But a CDC recommendation would likely come with one major adverse side-effect. For women who already find uncircumcised penises disgusting, wrong, or unfuckable, the recommendation will also provide more fuel for their ignorance.

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This week, I screened two documentaries for the City Paper’s Silverdocs film fest coverage. Unsurprisingly, I was assigned the two films in the festival about circumcision. Beyond the slang term “female circumcision,” the tradition of female genital mutilation has little to do with that of male circumcision. But both practices are cause for serious debate about who should be able to wield control over a child’s body—and whether age-old practices can still hold any modern value.

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