Circumcision is quite the ubiquitous tradition. The Christians in America prefer a quick slicing and dicing right after birth while the Jews have an entire party centered around the act of foreskin removal.

In Turkey, the Muslims choose to wait until the tender age range of six to eight years old. At this point they dress their boys in miniaturized pimp outfits, complete with hat and feather lined cape, and parade them down the street; thereby, allowing strangers to lavish the unknowing and unsuspecting boys in sympathetic looks.

The rest of the ceremony has a similar tone to a christening or a baptism, complete with the taking of pre-ceremonial family photos and consumption of finger foods, the main difference being that the splashing of some water and hair dampening is a painless, non traumatic event while circumcision….