I read that there were even neolithic societies already employing circumcision as ritual, long before Western colonization.

I have very very high doubt here

Is it really too much to ask that jewish leaders with herpes not put their mouths on chilren's penises after cutting them? Wow.

Not at all what the article says. The herpes connection has nothing to do with the act of circumcision, and was a review of individual case studies, not an overall rate.

GROSS! I never knew they did that afterwards.