There are probably as many causes in D.C. as there are days of the year, maybe more. Few, though, inspire both the chuckles and head-scratching that an anti-circumcision protest outside the Washington Convention Center on Monday did. DCist couldn’t help but stop and ask some questions and take some pictures — after all, how often will one see a woman whose hat asks, “Got Foreskin?” and whose shirt makes the undeniable offer, “Ask Me About Your Foreskin”? All jokes aside, these people were serious about protecting foreskins everywhere.

The protestors — hoping to attract the attention of the Academy of American Pediatrics, meeting in the Convention Center — were engaging and less crazy than one would first assume. “Did you know that the United States is the only country in the world that circumcises a majority of its newborn sons without any religious reason?”, one protestor asked DCist. No, we were not aware of that fact. We also weren’t aware that so many organizations have dedicated themselves to this cause — the National Organization for Restoring Men, Students for Genital Integrity, and the National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males, to mention but a few. Even less did we know about a 1996 law, the “Criminalization of Female Genital Mutilation Act,” whose language had to be amended to exclude any mention of male circumcision to ensure congressional endorsement. And some of the facts and figures the protestors were peddling — well, we’ll just let DCist readers explore those on their own.