I know I am maybe a little late in the thread, but having come back to it a second time, I feel i have to say something.
I am a 21 Year old, white, university educated atheist - my parents are both scientists & atheists and I have never had religion, forced or found.
I was circumcised when I was roughly 12, after my foreskin split (it was too tight to begin with) in the toilet in Waitrose while taking a pee. Trust me , it wasn't pleasant when it happened, and it the process of being circumcised wasn't good either.
Somehow or another, it got around school , maybe a careless teacher, that I had the procedure. Now you know what kids can be like, all it took was one persons parent to tell them "Circumcision, that means he has had the end cut off his knob" and my life became trash for as long as it took for people to forget. I cried, I hid, I cradled my todger in my hand and wondered what exactly had been done to me.
If I am honest, this wasn't the end - for misinformed can be found everywhere. I grew up fearing that the first time a girl saw my "little man", she would run off screaming. I didn't have the balls to look it up on the internet, or to ask my friends or family. Every time the subject came up, there was someone , just like so many people on this forum, going "on and on" about how it was mutilation, wrong, sick , weird. You can imagine how this felt, I didn't want sex, I was ashamed, hurt. I knew before my willy even got wet, that "I would never enjoy sex, and neither would my girlfriend".
Eventually the first time came, and i tried to hide my trouser snake as it slipped in - to my surprise sex was amazing, she came, i came - bloody heck, it was marvelous. But afterward, as I pulled out and tried to hide my shiny glans, i felt sick as she noticed...
"Oh , your circumcised, my brother had that done when he was young, its like a little space helmet".
To cut a long story short, none of the women I have slept with had a problem with me and my willy, none of them have minded, and all of them have remarked on how fantastic it was (cross my heart, not just point scoring, you just have to believe me).
Just like for everyone else, some might have lied, some were probably genuine. There is the odd occasion I don't climax, but I have never had a girlfriend complain about a nice long "session", and when I do it always feels fantastic, enough to knock me down to the bed.
tl;dr
I was circumcised for medical reasons, and my childhood was negatively impacted, not by the procedure, but by those people, like many of those in this forum who think I was "mutilated" or "have the end of my knob cut off". Thanks for making me feel like rubbish, like a mutant, like a second rate man.
Its funny, I agree it shouldn't be forced on children at all, its not right to make that decision for them. Just try engaging your brain before you you make such sweeping, upsetting generalizations in the name of making your point.
Sorry for the hurt baby rant

Considering I haven't even told my best friend , do me a favor and be gentle, it took balls. No pun intended.