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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are mild to moderate health benefits to circ of males:

It reduces UTIs, HPV, HIV, syph, and chancroids in boys. It also reduces penile cancer, which is admittedly. It also reduces HPV in girls. Complications are rare. Studies show no decrease in function and no psychological effects.

You can read the NIH report on circ and the need for Medicaid, Medicare and insurance coverage here:http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2008.134403

It's a moderately beneficial procedure with a low risk of complications which has little to no effect on function.

Get over it. This isn't mutilation or child abuse. It's a medical procedure that is supported by the data. [/quote]

This has been posted before but it bears repeating: international medical scholars come to a different conclusion, and view the evidence for the medical benefits as tenuous:

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896.abstract[/quote]

The cultural bias also goes the other way. Europeans didn't embrace circ when Americans did because they were strongly anti-Semitic. Their strong tradition of not circing is also a cultural bias. [/quote]

You are not seriously trying to argue that medical professionals from all other western countries (including Australia) assess the medical merits (or lack thereof) of circumcision the way they do because of all those countries' history of anti-Semitism, do you? This is just as ignorant an argument as saying that the practice is so widespread in the US because so many doctors are Jewish. The modern non-religious practice of circumcision originated in the late 19th century (at which time there was plenty of anti-Semitism in the US as well) when it was popularized by Lewis Sayre who made far reaching claims for its medical benefits, which have long been debunked. His book was simply not influential beyond the English-speaking world, and circumcision as a medical practice never caught on in continental Europe. [/quote]

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