and is reunited with his family 25 years later.

A 13-year-old Indonesian schoolboy was supposedly preparing for his circumcision in the town of Klaten. Instead, on the day of the operation he disappeared, terrified of what was to happen. For 25 years, nobody could find him. Recently, an officer from the local district's social welfare coordination team, Joko Prayitno, managed to locate the man in the town of Bantul, with the help of a YouTuber. (Good to have something nice to say about YouTube). Last week he had a very emotional reunion with his family, after more that 20 years of homelessness.

The best story is at Singapore Uncensored but you can see other pictures at Juice. Thanks to our regular Indonesian correspondent EC.

Yes, he is circumcised .

But then, we knew that already - Ingrid Seward, a palace insider, told us that in her book 'The Two Princes' - see our UK page. What we didn't know was that having a foreskin might have saved him from frostbite of his dick!

This is where things get messy. Clearly the same handful of excerpts have been passed from source to source by "chinese whispers" getting more and more inaccurate along the way. So, many accounts say his member got frostbitten in the Antarctic, while others say it was on a trek to the North Pole. Since Harry was involved with a fundraising trek to the North Pole for wounded servicemen, and joined it for four days (see the BBC report) I am inclined to believe the latter version.

The most amusing variant is in Harry's account of losing his virginity to an older woman. "She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me not unlike a young stallion. Quick ride, after which she'd smacked my rump and sent me to graze." This rings true, but many versions have her smacking his "ass" which not only destroys the horsey metaphor, it's an Americanism which Harry would never use.

There are many links but here are 3 7 News, Daily Mail, Page 6. Thanks to AG, BM and LX for the links.

I think we can assume that Meghan and Harry's son Archie is circumcised, so I guess media speculation will now centre on whether Willam and Kate's sons George and Louis are also circumcised.

The UK page has now (Jan 20th) been updated with accurate information from the actual book.

The Jew's penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England.

This paper, by Noelle Gallagher, is based on a cartoon by Hogarth. Now, if you were writing a piece of social history about the presnt century would you take a cartoon as fact? Hardly! Hogarth's cartoons were satires, intended to amuse.

Read this paper for a laugh, but don't take it seriously. It claims that Jews were effeminate, sexually inadequate and prone to sexually transmitted disease. All the serious literature contradicts this. Medical studies showed that Jews were much less prone to sexually transmitted diseases - the controversy was whether this was a benefit of circumcision or because Jewish men were less likely to stray in their married life. (Answer - probably both but until circumcision of gentiles became routine that question could not be answered.) And in popular literature circumcised men were regarded as so potent that a woman who had once experienced one could never be content with an uncircumcised one again (also nonsense, of course, but very few women had that experience). One final point - Gallagher quotes Robert Darby as a reliable source, which puts her firmly out in the lunatic fringe.

The abstract is available on PubMed but that really doesn't tell you much, you need to read the whole paper in Medical Humanities which is open access. Thanks to JH for the link.