[lOKKI]

What about braces? What about a nose job? What about plastic surgery to hide a scar or a broken nose?

There’s more to this question than this one teeny weenie point, if you’ll forgive me.

[CarrotAndStick]

What about braces? What about a nose job? What about plastic surgery to hide a scar or a broken nose?

I would think that the above procedures come into an entirely different category. The list above are procedures aimed towards a need. Circumcision, except in rare cases, is not so.

[hellbender]

The procedures you cite have some medical justification. Circumcision almost never does. Even so, I don't think they should ever be performed without the complete understanding and agreement of the child involved. No child should go through a painful and serious surgery like a nose job without his/her consent. In fact, that operation should be postponed until the child is fully grown anyway, because the contours of the nose change before that time. As an adult, the person could then give full consent on his own.

Incidentally, the foreskin is not a "teenie weenie" piece of tissue anyway. On an adult, it has a surface area about the size of a playing card, and is loaded with sensory, pleasure-giving nerves. It is a normal, functional, part of the healthy male body.