Room85
You are mixing up female mutilation and female circumcision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_circumcision[/html]
A Clitoridotomy is compared to a male circumcision as it is only the removal of the clitoral hood. Some women have this done to ENHANCE sexual pleasure. If you click on the above www address you can read the different types of mutilation that are done to a female. You will also read that female circumcison, removal of the clitoral hood, was done for the same reasons males were done, it was cleaner and it would stop the child from masturbating. Like the clitoral hood, there is a use for the foreskin in boys. The foreskin is needed to protect the glands on the penis.
As for being cleaner, I have not found that circumcised men are cleaner. They are the same. You just have to bathe regularily. My husband has never had a problem putting on a condom.
I did date a man who was not circumcised at birth but due to an infection he had to be circumcised at age 24. He hates it. He claims there is less feeling during sexual intercourse, his penis becomes irriated more and he feels he has to clean his penis more than he did before. He showers daily but finds after sex he also has to wash it, or after playing sports.
I personally feel that routine male circumcision is male mutilation and there is absolutely no medical reason for it at all. Why remove perfectly healthy tissue that the body needs? As for religious or cultural reasons, there are other things that are done for religious and cultural reasons that are against the law in our society.