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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]30 seconds of unremembered pain for a lifetime of medical  benefits , sounds ok to me[/quote]

Have you been paying attention at all? The benefits are marginal at best. Otherwise not only would American doctors still advocate routine circumcision (which they haven't for decades) but developed countries where it is not part of a cultural tradition would have started recommending it by now.

And why is it that the only studies used in support of circumcision were done in Africa? Surely given the decreasing rate of the procedure in the US, doctors should by now have enough of a sample size to be able to say what effect infant circumcision has on health outcomes of American males, or even specifically white American middle class males. [/quote]There ARE studies. The anti-circ audience dismisses them because they are observational and not randomized control studies. But it's impossible to randomly assign people in the us to get circumcised or to be in a control. Only really possible in places like Africa. [/quote]

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