Synopsis Of 'ForeSkin'
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In this story, Dr. Pierce Goldstone (me dog)
fights religio-political leaders (rabid dog)
to stop routine child circumcision in America (bone).
The religious leaders win, but Pierce gets the word out to those who want to hear it, as Pierce escapes with his life.
--------( C O N C E R N )
In his San Francisco office, Doctor Pierce tells his clients that circumcision is the healthy choice for their children.
He shows them charts that show that circumcised Jewish males have massively reduced rates of penile cancer and STD's compared to the uncircumcised Gentile population.
His clients flock in. Pierce circumcises many boys. The procedure is awful, scarring. You can't believe anyone would do that to a baby.
--------H O P E
Pierce lives the rich life. His synagogue votes him 'Man Of The Year'. He's the toast of northern California's high-society scene.
He sells the foreskins to corporations who use the foreskins' amazing self-replication properties to make football-field-sized lengths of burn bandages. The corporations send Pierce videos of children he's helped save from full-body burns in car-accidents, house-fires, gas explosions, etc.
Pierce's children adore him. They lead their classes at private school. His wife is beloved by everyone at society dinners and at synagogue. Pierce has the perfect life.
--------F E A R
At medical conventions, the burn-bandage corporations send the most amazing women in the world to pleasure Pierce in the most amazing ways.
Pierce flies home, his head swimming from making love to so many indescribably beautiful women.
His wife attempts to welcome him home with some love of her own.
But Pierce can't function for his relatively plain wife.
When she attempts to rouse him, she sees, with horror, that he has a chancroid on his member.
She leaves him and takes the children.
--------S C O R E
Pierce goes to a friend, a female urologist, Dr. Helena Christensen. Helena explains that VD is back with a vengeance, due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
They try normal antibiotics.
But Pierce's VD just gets worse. Helena explains that in Africa Big Pharma are doing trials of new experimental radioactive antibiotics.
So Pierce and Helena travel to Africa.
They try the antibiotics.
Helena nurses Pierce through the severe side effects.
At last the antibiotics rid Pierce of VD.
--------P A I N
Helena invites Pierce to go on a back-bush mission expedition.
There Pierce witnesses a satanic circumcision ritual.
It shocks him.
Helena explains that in her view, circumcision is and always was a satanic ritual- that there is zero medical basis for the procedure.
Pierce accuses Helena of trying to proselytize him, to convert him to Christianity, to ruin his career, to drive a wedge between him and his family and his synagogue full of rich clients.
--------P O W E R
Back in San Francisco, Pierce tells his Rabbi about the scarring trip Helena dragged him through.
He paints Helena as a Jew-hating psycho on a mad mission to end circumcision to compensate up for her guilt over having succumbed to sexual abuse herself.
The Rabbi makes a call — to Dr. Helena's Pastor, Reverend Lance Short!
Almost instantly, television news reports show horrible accusations of child abuse against Dr. Helena.
Her customers boycott and picket her.
She loses her medical license.
Helena goes to jail.
She uses the jail time to finish a book exposing the evils of circumcision.
She sends it to Pierce.
--------D I S A S T E R!
Pierce reads the book.
At first he throws it down.
But every time he picks it up, he's more amazed at how it destroys every argument for routine genital circumcision, first from a medical and historical point of view, then from a Biblical point-of-view.
Pierce takes the book to his Rabbi.
The Rabbi burns it in his fireplace.
The Rabbi advances meaningless pseudo-arguments.
Pierce calls a meeting of the synagogue elders.
Pierce smashes the Rabbi's weak arguments.
Pierce counter-argues with perfect logic.
Pierce humiliates the Rabbi.
Pierce goes to seek help from Dr. Helena's Christian pastor, Reverend Lance Short.
Pierce explains that circumcision is child abuse, that the world must be told.
So the Pastor makes a call to a Doctor in his congregation.
But the Doctor refuses to speak with Pierce.
Instead, soon news reports show censored video of Pierce making love to the gorgeous women at the medical conventions.
The problem is: those weren't 'women': they were 17 year old girls.
One of them was even a 17-year old boy in drag!
So Pierce too loses his license.
Cops come to haul him away to jail.
He flees.
--------T R I U M P H!
Pierce gets Helena out of the low-security jail.
Together they flee to Chile.
In hiding, Pierce and Helena produce videos proving beyond any doubt that genital cutting has no Biblical or scientific basis whatever.
In response, genital circumcision rates decrease across America.
Fathers and mothers watching the videos in medical waiting-rooms rip their babies off of circumcision tables across the English-speaking world.
The news reports the dramatic reduction in elective circumcisions.
Pierce and Helena smile and hug ... and kiss.
