Letter: Skin deep

Sir: As one who met the knife at the age of eight days, I find the debate over circumcision just a little sterile. Surely it is the right of parents to determine how their children are raised. The last thing parents need is yet more "advice" from the concerned on how to do something that has been taken for granted since the beginning of time - parenting.

Men who feel "traumatised" by the loss of a couple of square inches of skin obviously have a very shallow perspective on what constitutes a real problem in life.

MISCHA MOSELLE

Hong Kong