Most Americans are circumcised, not only the jews and the muslims, for reasons that are described as health concerns, so I suppose they were shocked to see the french model. I noticed also the strange remark about "lonelier". Is she right? English is not my mother tongue, but I thought my humble weblog's name is grammatically correct.

Either way, 36,201 hits in the last 24 hours... I definetely should post more pics of uncircumcised guys!

I don't understand what these health concerns could be. I don't see how circumcision can be justified for either religious or 'cleanliness' reasons. Seems a bit sad that natural, un-cut seems alien to people, whereas cut doesn't. Also, there should be more pictures of naked men in the media, if only for educational purposes.

I won't say anymore on the subject of circumcision, in case I upset the entire circumcised American population.

As for the 'lonelier' thing; I think "lonelier" sounds right, and "more lonely" sounds wrong. Maybe it depends on the context and whether there's a plural in there or not, but I don't think they can be more lonely. In my opinion, your grammar is right, whereas hers is not.

Regarding circumcision and health: in 1981 Dr. Michael Gottlieb of UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California published the first report of what would later turn out to be AIDS. I was on the staff of that very hospital at the time, and so was understandably both interested and concerned. I have followed the epidemic quite closely over the past two decades. Although politically incorrect, repeated reports (I have the references on file) have demonstrated a strong, unmistakeable correlation between lack of circumcision and HIV positivity.

Regarding "lonelier v more lonely": speaking as the author of two published books, the current title of this site is both grammatically correct AND a stroke of genius, reading beautifully: more lonely, while also grammatically correct, is far more awkward. Here we see the genius of the artist in action: like Joseph Conrad, our founder Patrick, using English as an adopted second language, somehow intuitively strikes the right note.

Hell Yea! Nabokov, Conrad and me! LOL

Americans are mostly circumsized because they don't know any better. It is a $1 billion dollar a year industry (weird huh). The AMA and pediatricians now are required to say it is an elective cosmetic surgery because it has no actual health value as proven many times over. www.nocirc.com has an extensive, although weird, history of such things.