circumcision

is both phallic and feminizing. It is a form of circumcised masculinity which often circumscribes males within a maternal or uterine yearning.

maternal or uterine yearning. The rite is phallic and feminizing. It crafts a parturient phallus. Or is it' The adolescent rite may plague boys (and adult men) with unresolved anxieties surrounding the social significance of sexuality (Kennedy 1970, pp. 183 87). Circumcised masculinity, too, I stress, often circumscribes males within a maternal or uterine yearning. The rite is phallic and feminizing. It crafts a parturient phallus. (423)

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