Michelangelo Updated!

Michelangelo Restores David's Foreskin!

Remember how David slews Goliath as a young man in the Old Testament? Of course you do, and you know that David was a good Jew. So what? Well, if David was a good Hebrew man, he would have been circumcised at birth according to Jewish custom. Well look closely at Michelangelo's David and you will immediately note that he is uncircumcised! Of course, old Michelangelo lived in Florence, Italy, and there were not too many Jewish men to use as models. As a matter of fact, I think that David has a very Roman looking face as well. And since Michelangelo was gay, this was probably his type; it may even be an excellent portrayal of his lover. What do you think? But as a commissioned work of art, it had to show David with the sling over his shoulder in position to commit Goliath's demise.

Michelangelo left us many wonderful sculptures -- especially of men with uncircumcised penises. The Pieta's adult dead Jesus has a cloth covering his genitals, but the Mother and Child shows the toddler Jesus naked and probably uncircumcised, but the pictures I downloaded do not have enough resolution to be sure. Again I think Michelangelo chose to ignore the Jewish rite of circumcision. What do you think?