>>15479891
it's a 'dying expression'
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FK was circumcised for "tight foreskin problems" (that is, unnecessarily) at the age of 21 in the Mayo Clinic in February 1938 while he was a student at Harvard.
Although he wrote to his gay confidante and roommate K. LeMoyne ("Lem") Billings,
"… as for your rather unnatural interest in my becoming circumsized [sic], J.J. has never been in better shape or doing better service"
this is put in context by a more detailed comment:
"When you're circumcised at a much later age like that, you think of it as a kind of castration, a threat to manhood, so you have to keep on proving 'IT' is o.k. by any means possible."
…suggesting that if JFK had had a more foreskin-friendly doctor, Marilyn Monroe might have gone on to become a distinguished old character actress like Katherine Hepburn.