PS. As for backlash against Jews, I really rather doubt it. In Europe there's no backlash for that reason, and in Britain where circumcision had become as prevalent as in the United States before the war it's plunged to a trivial 2-3% of births, just Jews and Muslims. But there's no backlash against them it seems to me; people just accept it for what it is.
Even I who am so intensely hostile to it would let that be if it came to it. Yeah, it'd be nice in my view if everyone came to think of it as I do, but I know it won't happen for religious reasons, at least not in my lifetime. What I'd like to see is a process play itself out as in Britain, where once the tide turned the practice plunged to nonexistence except for those groups that have it as a religious tenet.
I'd rather they reinterpret their tenets, personally, but that's for them to decide. For the Jews in particular it would merely require a return to biblical practices, to at least make it a far less radical practice. I would not persecute the groups or anything like that, because that would be replacing one 'wrong' (in my view) with a much greater one.
My intense hostility is reserved for the elective, non-religious practice.
Even though it is no longer required for religious reasons among Christians, it is the same God who ordered it.
And this is the same God who ordered that Jews not slash themselves while in mourning as the heathen did.
I don't know if it is true that sexual pleasure is reduced for the woman though. Just because people say it is doesn't make it so. That would mean for centuries Jewish and Arab women derived less pleasure from sex.
That was interesting what you posted. I had never read anything like that. Just because you say it doesn't make it true. Where did you read it? I'm suspicious of historians because they often did not agree and don't know which ones are credible.