Circumcision

<h2 id="uses">Uses</h2>
<h3>Elective</h3>
Approximately half of all circumcisions worldwide are performed for reasons of prophylactic healthcare.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36">36</a>

<h4>Prophylactic usage in high-risk populations</h4>

There is a consensus among the world's major medical organizations and in the academic literature that circumcision is an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in high-risk populations if carried out by medical professionals under safe conditions.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37">37</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38">38</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39">39</a>
In 2007, the WHO and the <a href="/facts/Joint_United_Nations_Programme_on_HIV%2fAIDS/nxCc81gV">Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS</a> (UNAIDS) stated that they recommended adolescent and adult circumcision as part of a comprehensive program for prevention of HIV transmission in areas with high endemic rates of HIV, as long as the program includes "<a href="/facts/Informed_consent/V1vL4QSj">informed consent</a>, <a href="/facts/Confidentiality/JFMubsQm">confidentiality</a>, and absence of <a href="/facts/Coercion/Cs2TDsUR">coercion</a>" — known as voluntary medical male circumcision, or VMMC.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40">40</a> In 2010, this was expanded to routine neonatal circumcision, as long as those undergoing the procedure received assent from their parents.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41">41</a> In 2020, the World Health Organization again concluded that male circumcision is an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention and that the promotion of male circumcision is an essential strategy, in addition to other preventive measures, for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men. Eastern and southern Africa had a particularly low prevalence of circumcised males. This region has a disproportionately high HIV infection rate, with a significant number of those infections stemming from heterosexual transmission. As a result, the promotion of prophylactic circumcision has been a priority intervention in that region since the WHO's 2007 recommendations.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42">42</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43">43</a> The International Antiviral Society–USA also suggests circumcision be discussed with <a href="/facts/Men_who_have_sex_with_men/F2gI6FQG">men who have insertive anal sex with men</a>, especially in regions where HIV is common.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44">44</a> There is evidence that circumcision is associated with a reduced risk of HIV infection for such men, particularly in low-income countries.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45">45</a>
The finding that circumcision significantly reduces female-to-male HIV transmission has prompted medical organizations serving communities affected by endemic HIV/AIDS to promote circumcision as a method of controlling the spread of HIV.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46">46</a>

<h4>Prophylactic usage in developed countries</h4>
Major medical organizations hold varying positions on the <a href="/facts/Preventive_healthcare/pWGlacXu">prophylactic efficacy</a> of the elective circumcision of minors in the context of <a href="/facts/Developed_country/sqwTSDHm">developed countries</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47">47</a> Literature on the matter is polarized, with the cost-benefit analysis being highly dependent on the kinds and frequencies of health problems in the population under discussion and how circumcision affects them.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:48" href="#fn:48">48</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:49" href="#fn:49">49</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:50" href="#fn:50">50</a>
The <a href="/facts/World_Health_Organization/YNN3bgug">World Health Organization</a> (WHO), <a href="/facts/Joint_United_Nations_Programme_on_HIV%2fAIDS/nxCc81gV">UNAIDS</a>, and American medical organizations take the position that it carries prophylactic health benefits which outweigh the risks, while European medical organizations generally hold the belief that in these situations its medical benefits are not counterbalanced by risk.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:51" href="#fn:51">51</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:52" href="#fn:52">52</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:53" href="#fn:53">53</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:54" href="#fn:54">54</a> Advocates of circumcision consider it to have a net health benefit, and therefore feel that increasing the circumcision rate is "imperative".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:55" href="#fn:55">55</a> They recommend performing it during the neonatal period when it is less expensive and has a lower risk of complications.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:56" href="#fn:56">56</a> The <a href="/facts/American_Academy_of_Pediatrics/rsUGJTBh">American Academy of Pediatrics</a>, <a href="/facts/American_College_of_Obstetricians_and_Gynecologists/9E490I1J">American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists</a>, and <a href="/facts/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention/NmoJNDV5">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> stated that the potential benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:57" href="#fn:57">57</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:58" href="#fn:58">58</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:59" href="#fn:59">59</a>
The World Health Organization in 2010 stated:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:60" href="#fn:60">60</a>

<blockquote>There are significant benefits in performing male circumcision in early infancy, and programmes that promote early infant male circumcision are likely to have lower morbidity rates and lower costs than programmes targeting adolescent boys and men.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:61" href="#fn:61">61</a> </blockquote>
<h3>Pathologies</h3>
Circumcision is also used to treat various pathologies. These include pathological <a href="/facts/Phimosis/9w24WHUS">phimosis</a>, refractory <a href="/facts/Balanoposthitis/WEh5kfN3">balanoposthitis</a> and chronic or recurrent <a href="/facts/Urinary_tract_infection/4NwY9tL0">urinary tract infections</a> (UTIs).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:62" href="#fn:62">62</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:63" href="#fn:63">63</a>

<h2 id="contraindications">Contraindications</h2>
Circumcision is <a href="/facts/Contraindication/HawhU8x9">contraindicated</a> in certain cases.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:64" href="#fn:64">64</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:65" href="#fn:65">65</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:66" href="#fn:66">66</a>
These include infants with certain <a href="/facts/Sex_organ/c2ypY14E">genital</a> structure abnormalities, such as a misplaced <a href="/facts/External_urethral_orifice_(male)/KEpC3DKX">urethral opening</a> (as in <a href="/facts/Hypospadias/rr82Ll75">hypospadias</a> and <a href="/facts/Epispadias/XKhFC6Wb">epispadias</a>), curvature of the head of the penis (<a href="/facts/Chordee/IgRTLEeI">chordee</a>), or <a href="/facts/Ambiguous_genitalia/r8JC6taq">ambiguous genitalia</a>, because the foreskin may be needed for reconstructive surgery. Circumcision is contraindicated in <a href="/facts/Preterm_birth/szMos8tu">premature</a> infants and those who are not clinically stable and in good health.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:67" href="#fn:67">67</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:68" href="#fn:68">68</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:69" href="#fn:69">69</a> 
If an individual is known to have or has a family history of serious bleeding disorders such as <a href="/facts/Hemophilia/DzpVBLna">hemophilia</a>, it is recommended that the blood be checked for normal <a href="/facts/Coagulation/vnfEevM0">coagulation</a> properties before the procedure is attempted.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:70" href="#fn:70">70</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:71" href="#fn:71">71</a>

<h2 id="technique">Technique</h2>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Circumcision_surgical_procedure/EwHv45kF">Circumcision surgical procedure</a>

The <a href="/facts/Foreskin/kfa9pYJq">foreskin</a> is the double-layered fold of tissue at the distal end of the <a href="/facts/Human_penis/shzvo9ML">human penis</a> that covers the <a href="/facts/Glans_penis/Fw1W4sQc">glans</a> and the <a href="/facts/Urinary_meatus/KEpC3DKX">urinary meatus</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:72" href="#fn:72">72</a> 
For adult medical circumcision, superficial wound healing takes up to a week, and complete healing 4 to 6 months.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:73" href="#fn:73">73</a> For infants, healing is usually complete within one week.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:74" href="#fn:74">74</a>

<h3>Removal of the foreskin</h3>
For infant circumcision, <a href="/facts/Circumcision_clamp/oLb5VkrP">devices</a> such as the <a href="/facts/Gomco_clamp/EwHv45kF">Gomco clamp</a>, <a href="/facts/Plastibell/EwHv45kF">Plastibell</a> and <a href="/facts/Mogen_clamp/EwHv45kF">Mogen clamp</a> are commonly used in the USA.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:75" href="#fn:75">75</a> These follow the same basic procedure. First, the amount of foreskin to be removed is estimated. The practitioner opens the foreskin via the preputial <a href="/facts/Body_orifice/hFeqBLL9">orifice</a> to reveal the glans underneath and ensures it is normal before bluntly separating the inner lining of the foreskin (<a href="/facts/Preputial_mucosa/urRmmdXt">preputial epithelium</a>) from its attachment to the glans. The practitioner then places the circumcision device (this sometimes requires a <a href="/facts/Dorsal_slit/Y2q1R9cB">dorsal slit</a>), which remains until blood flow has stopped. Finally, the foreskin is <a href="/facts/Amputation/Y8w0maCD">amputated</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:76" href="#fn:76">76</a> For older babies and adults, circumcision is often performed surgically without specialized instruments,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:77" href="#fn:77">77</a> and alternatives such as <a href="/facts/Unicirc/EwHv45kF">Unicirc</a> or the <a href="/facts/Shang_ring/EwHv45kF">Shang ring</a> are available.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:78" href="#fn:78">78</a>

<h3>Pain management</h3>
The circumcision procedure causes pain, and for neonates this pain may interfere with mother-infant interaction or cause other behavioral changes,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:79" href="#fn:79">79</a> so the use of <a href="/facts/Analgesia/xLj4XBcq">analgesia</a> is advocated.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:80" href="#fn:80">80</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:81" href="#fn:81">81</a> Ordinary procedural pain may be managed in <a href="/facts/Pharmacology/4Rx8s7Ie">pharmacological</a> and non-pharmacological ways. Pharmacological methods, such as localized or regional pain-blocking injections and topical analgesic creams, are safe and effective.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:82" href="#fn:82">82</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:83" href="#fn:83">83</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:84" href="#fn:84">84</a> The <a href="/facts/Nerve_block/VjQ7XvBE">ring block</a> and dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB) are the most effective at reducing pain, and the ring block may be more effective than the DPNB. They are more effective than <a href="/facts/Lidocaine%2fprilocaine/sVgNU4mv">EMLA</a> (eutectic mixture of local anesthetics) cream, which is more effective than a <a href="/facts/Placebo/3fw50t53">placebo</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:85" href="#fn:85">85</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:86" href="#fn:86">86</a> Topical creams have been found to irritate the skin of <a href="/facts/Low_birth_weight/IxqAPaKn">low birth weight</a> infants, so penile nerve block techniques are recommended in this group.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:87" href="#fn:87">87</a>
For infants, non-pharmacological methods such as the use of a comfortable, padded chair and a <a href="/facts/Sucrose/7y1ke94L">sucrose</a> or non-sucrose pacifier are more effective at reducing pain than a placebo,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:88" href="#fn:88">88</a> but the <a href="/facts/American_Academy_of_Pediatrics/rsUGJTBh">American Academy of Pediatrics</a> (AAP) states that such methods are insufficient alone and should be used to supplement more effective techniques.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:89" href="#fn:89">89</a> A quicker procedure reduces duration of pain; use of the Mogen clamp was found to result in a shorter procedure time and less pain-induced stress than the use of the Gomco clamp or the Plastibell.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:90" href="#fn:90">90</a> The available evidence does not indicate that post-procedure pain management is needed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:91" href="#fn:91">91</a> For adults, <a href="/facts/Topical_anesthesia/oP4qXYpx">topical anesthesia</a>, ring block, dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB) and <a href="/facts/General_anesthesia/bv3Yzcz7">general anesthesia</a> are all options,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:92" href="#fn:92">92</a> and the procedure requires four to six weeks of abstinence from <a href="/facts/Masturbation/7uGXPrVc">masturbation</a> or intercourse to allow the wound to heal.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:93" href="#fn:93">93</a>

<h2 id="effects">Effects</h2>
Neonatal circumcision is generally a safe, low-risk procedure when done by an experienced practitioner.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:94" href="#fn:94">94</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:95" href="#fn:95">95</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:96" href="#fn:96">96</a>

<h3>Sexually transmitted infections</h3>
<h4>Human immunodeficiency virus</h4>
See also: <a href="/facts/Circumcision_in_Africa/0aLsvdmF">Circumcision in Africa § Circumcision to prevent the spread of human immunodeficiency virus in Africa</a>
This section is an excerpt from <a href="/facts/Circumcision_and_HIV/ojXx3jza">Circumcision and HIV</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circumcision_and_HIV&action=edit">edit</a>]
Male circumcision reduces the risk of <a href="/facts/HIV_transmission/RqLIEMuJ">human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission</a> from HIV positive women to men in high risk populations.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:97" href="#fn:97">97</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:98" href="#fn:98">98</a> In 2020, the <a href="/facts/World_Health_Organization/YNN3bgug">World Health Organization</a> (WHO) reiterated that male circumcision is an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention if carried out by medical professionals under safe conditions.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:99" href="#fn:99">99</a>

Circumcision reduces the risk that a man will acquire HIV and other <a href="/facts/Sexually_transmitted_infections/IYL1rxdI">sexually transmitted infections</a> (STIs) from an infected female partner through <a href="/facts/Vaginal_sex/okjwpVnB">vaginal sex</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:100" href="#fn:100">100</a> The evidence regarding whether circumcision helps prevent HIV is not as clear among <a href="/facts/Men_who_have_sex_with_men/F2gI6FQG">men who have sex with men</a> (MSM).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:101" href="#fn:101">101</a> The effectiveness of using circumcision to prevent HIV in the <a href="/facts/Developed_country/sqwTSDHm">developed world</a> is not determined.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:102" href="#fn:102">102</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:103" href="#fn:103">103</a>
<h4>Human papillomavirus</h4>
<a href="/facts/Human_papillomavirus/7XW8mjG2">Human papillomavirus</a> (HPV) is the most commonly transmitted <a href="/facts/Sexually_transmitted_infection/IYL1rxdI">sexually transmitted infection</a>, affecting both men and women. While most infections are <a href="/facts/Asymptomatic/6ewHqlEU">asymptomatic</a> and are cleared by the <a href="/facts/Immune_system/HRCTf1pb">immune system</a>, some types of the virus cause <a href="/facts/Genital_wart/4qGgxN4V">genital warts</a>, and other types, if untreated, cause various forms of cancer, including <a href="/facts/Cervical_cancer/99vngUyd">cervical cancer</a> and <a href="/facts/Penile_cancer/0P3Em4dc">penile cancer</a>. Genital warts and cervical cancer are the two most common problems resulting from HPV.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:104" href="#fn:104">104</a>
Circumcision is associated with a reduced <a href="/facts/Prevalence/6UTuTGTH">prevalence</a> of <a href="/facts/Carcinogenesis/PC8wc1Mf">oncogenic</a> types of HPV infection, meaning that a randomly selected circumcised man is less likely to be found infected with cancer-causing types of HPV than an uncircumcised man.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:105" href="#fn:105">105</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:106" href="#fn:106">106</a> It also decreases the likelihood of multiple infections.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:107" href="#fn:107">107</a> As of 2012, there was no strong evidence that it reduces the rate of new HPV infection,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:108" href="#fn:108">108</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:109" href="#fn:109">109</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:110" href="#fn:110">110</a> but the procedure is associated with increased <a href="/facts/Clearance_(medicine)/RqI64paT">clearance</a> of the virus by the body,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:111" href="#fn:111">111</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:112" href="#fn:112">112</a> which can account for the finding of reduced prevalence.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:113" href="#fn:113">113</a>
Although genital warts are caused by a type of HPV, there is no <a href="/facts/Statistical_significance/PMxjdlAu">statistically significant relationship</a> between being circumcised and the presence of genital warts.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:114" href="#fn:114">114</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:115" href="#fn:115">115</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:116" href="#fn:116">116</a>

<h4>Other infections</h4>
Studies evaluating the effect of circumcision on the rates of other sexually transmitted infections have, generally, found it to be protective. A 2006 meta-analysis found that circumcision was associated with lower rates of <a href="/facts/Syphilis/fdnGLyLT">syphilis</a>, <a href="/facts/Chancroid/yw6l3Jmt">chancroid</a>, and possibly genital <a href="/facts/Herpes/8AQktlTV">herpes</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:117" href="#fn:117">117</a> A 2010 review found that circumcision reduced the incidence of <a href="/facts/Herpes_simplex_virus/pStCydgY">HSV</a>-2 (herpes simplex virus, type 2) infections by 28%.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:118" href="#fn:118">118</a> The researchers found mixed results for protection against <a href="/facts/Trichomonas_vaginalis/BeNyMqnj">trichomonas vaginalis</a> and <a href="/facts/Chlamydia_trachomatis/54QHKFWC">chlamydia trachomatis</a>, and no evidence of protection against <a href="/facts/Gonorrhea/xulQCkLF">gonorrhea</a> or syphilis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:119" href="#fn:119">119</a> It may also possibly protect against syphilis in MSM.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:120" href="#fn:120">120</a>

<h3>Phimosis, balanitis and balanoposthitis</h3>
Phimosis is the inability to retract the foreskin over the glans penis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:121" href="#fn:121">121</a> At birth, the foreskin cannot be retracted due to <a href="/facts/Adhesion_(medicine)/thLyEqrT">adhesions</a> between the foreskin and glans, and this is considered normal (physiological phimosis).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:122" href="#fn:122">122</a> Over time the foreskin naturally separates from the glans, and a majority of boys are able to retract the foreskin by age three.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:123" href="#fn:123">123</a> Less than one percent are still having problems at age 18.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:124" href="#fn:124">124</a> If the inability to do so becomes problematic (pathological phimosis) circumcision is a treatment option.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:125" href="#fn:125">125</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:126" href="#fn:126">126</a> A <a href="/facts/Preputioplasty/DFYyyIa8">preputioplasty</a>, where the foreskin is surgically widened instead of removed, is another possible surgical treatment option for phimosis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:127" href="#fn:127">127</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:128" href="#fn:128">128</a> This pathological phimosis may be due to scarring from the skin disease <a href="/facts/Balanitis_xerotica_obliterans/3PuJ7V6l">balanitis xerotica obliterans</a> (BXO), repeated episodes of <a href="/facts/Balanoposthitis/WEh5kfN3">balanoposthitis</a> or forced retraction of the foreskin.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:129" href="#fn:129">129</a> <a href="/facts/Steroid/4AhMbgXt">Steroid</a> creams are also a reasonable option and may prevent the need for surgery including in those with mild BXO.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:130" href="#fn:130">130</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:131" href="#fn:131">131</a> The procedure may also be used to prevent the development of phimosis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:132" href="#fn:132">132</a> Phimosis is also a complication that can result from circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:133" href="#fn:133">133</a>
An inflammation of the glans penis and foreskin is called balanoposthitis, and the condition affecting the glans alone is called <a href="/facts/Balanitis/WEh5kfN3">balanitis</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:134" href="#fn:134">134</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:135" href="#fn:135">135</a> Most cases of these conditions occur in uncircumcised males,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:136" href="#fn:136">136</a> affecting 4–11% of that group.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:137" href="#fn:137">137</a> The moist, warm space underneath the foreskin is thought to facilitate the growth of pathogens, particularly when hygiene is poor. Yeasts, especially <a href="/facts/Candida_albicans/7o27aEFS">Candida albicans</a>, are the most common penile infection and are rarely identified in samples taken from circumcised males.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:138" href="#fn:138">138</a> Both conditions are usually treated with topical antibiotics (metronidazole cream) and antifungals (clotrimazole cream) or low-potency steroid creams.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:139" href="#fn:139">139</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:140" href="#fn:140">140</a> Circumcision is a treatment option for refractory or recurrent balanoposthitis, but in the twenty-first century the availability of the other treatments has made it less necessary.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:141" href="#fn:141">141</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:142" href="#fn:142">142</a>

<h3>Urinary tract infections</h3>
A UTI affects parts of the <a href="/facts/Urinary_system/CJxvtE0S">urinary system</a> including the <a href="/facts/Urethra/THkvxu0d">urethra</a>, <a href="/facts/Urinary_bladder/g8Khaf7A">bladder</a>, and <a href="/facts/Kidney/HBspPrv9">kidneys</a>. There is about a one percent risk of UTIs in boys under two years of age, and the majority of incidents occur in the first year of life. There is good but not <a href="/facts/Randomized_controlled_trial/LG9lkyVx">ideal evidence</a> that circumcision of babies reduces the incidence of UTIs in boys under two years of age, and there is fair evidence that the reduction in incidence is by a factor of 3–10 times (100 circumcisions prevents one UTI).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:143" href="#fn:143">143</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:144" href="#fn:144">144</a>[conflicted source]<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:145" href="#fn:145">145</a> Circumcision is most likely to benefit boys who have a high risk of UTIs due to anatomical defects,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:146" href="#fn:146">146</a> and may be used to treat recurrent UTIs.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:147" href="#fn:147">147</a>
There is a plausible biological explanation for the reduction in UTI risk after circumcision. The orifice through which urine passes at the tip of the penis (the <a href="/facts/Urinary_meatus/KEpC3DKX">urinary meatus</a>) hosts more urinary system disease-causing bacteria in uncircumcised boys than in circumcised boys, especially in those under six months of age. As these bacteria are a risk factor for UTIs, circumcision may reduce the risk of UTIs through a decrease in the bacterial population.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:148" href="#fn:148">148</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:149" href="#fn:149">149</a>

<h3>Cancers</h3>
Not being circumcised is the primary <a href="/facts/Risk_factor/N0YTUyer">risk factor</a> for <a href="/facts/Penile_cancer/0P3Em4dc">penile cancer</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:150" href="#fn:150">150</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:151" href="#fn:151">151</a> Pre-adolescent circumcision has a strong protective effect against penile cancer in later life.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:152" href="#fn:152">152</a> Penile cancer is a rare disease in the <a href="/facts/Developed_world/sqwTSDHm">developed world</a> but much more prevalent in the <a href="/facts/Developing_world/eTfS4kxl">developing world</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:153" href="#fn:153">153</a> The penile tissue removed during circumcision is a potential origin for penile cancer.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:154" href="#fn:154">154</a> Risk-benefit considerations around the use of circumcision as a cancer-preventive measure are a source of debate.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:155" href="#fn:155">155</a>
Penile cancer development can be detected in the carcinoma in situ (CIS) cancerous precursor stage and at the more advanced invasive squamous cell carcinoma stage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:156" href="#fn:156">156</a> There is an association between adult circumcision and an increased risk of invasive penile cancer; this is believed to be from men being circumcised as a treatment for penile cancer or a condition that is a precursor to cancer rather than a consequence of circumcision itself.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:157" href="#fn:157">157</a> Penile cancer has been observed to be nearly eliminated in populations of males circumcised neonatally.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:158" href="#fn:158">158</a>
Important risk factors for penile cancer include phimosis and HPV infection, both of which are mitigated by circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:159" href="#fn:159">159</a> The mitigating effect circumcision has on the risk factor introduced by the possibility of phimosis is secondary, in that the removal of the foreskin eliminates the possibility of phimosis. This can be inferred from study results that show uncircumcised men with no history of phimosis are equally likely to have penile cancer as circumcised men.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:160" href="#fn:160">160</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:161" href="#fn:161">161</a> Circumcision is also associated with a reduced prevalence of cancer-causing types of HPV in men<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:162" href="#fn:162">162</a> and a reduced risk of cervical cancer (which is caused by a type of HPV) in female partners of men.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:163" href="#fn:163">163</a>
There is some evidence that circumcision is associated with reduced risk of <a href="/facts/Prostate_cancer/Mx7XuDhm">prostate cancer</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:164" href="#fn:164">164</a>

<h3>Women's health</h3>
A 2017 systematic review found consistent evidence that male circumcision prior to heterosexual contact was associated with a decreased risk of cervical cancer, <a href="/facts/Cervical_intraepithelial_neoplasia/6GoARC51">cervical dysplasia</a>, HSV-2, chlamydia, and syphilis among women. The evidence was less consistent in regards to the potential association of circumcision with women's risk of HPV and HIV.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:165" href="#fn:165">165</a>

<h3>Sexual effects</h3>
The accumulated data show circumcision does not have an adverse physiological effect on sexual pleasure, function, desire, or fertility.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:166" href="#fn:166">166</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:167" href="#fn:167">167</a> There is some evidence that circumcision has no effect on <a href="/facts/Dyspareunia/qcoh8ltE">pain with intercourse</a>, <a href="/facts/Premature_ejaculation/SFCHo2KE">premature ejaculation</a>, <a href="/facts/Intravaginal_ejaculation_latency_time/XGJnV1lQ">intravaginal ejaculation latency time</a>, <a href="/facts/Erectile_dysfunction/7HDetsos">erectile dysfunction</a> or difficulties with <a href="/facts/Orgasm/Dweqd5oI">orgasm</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:168" href="#fn:168">168</a> There are popular misconceptions that circumcision benefits or adversely impacts the sexual pleasure of the circumcised person.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:169" href="#fn:169">169</a>
According to a 2014 review, the effect of circumcision on sexual partners' experiences is unclear as this has not been well studied.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:170" href="#fn:170">170</a> According to a policy statement from the <a href="/facts/Canadian_Paediatric_Society/9ED0JFJQ">Canadian Paediatric Society</a> that was reaffirmed in 2021,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:171" href="#fn:171">171</a> "medical studies do not support circumcision as having an impact on sexual function or satisfaction for partners of circumcised individuals".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:172" href="#fn:172">172</a>

<h2 id="adverse-effects">Adverse effects</h2>
The most common acute <a href="/facts/Complication_(medicine)/uJHvzqUt">complications</a> are bleeding, infection and the removal of either too much or too little foreskin.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:173" href="#fn:173">173</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:174" href="#fn:174">174</a> These complications occur in approximately 0.13% of procedures, with bleeding being the most common acute complication in the United States.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:175" href="#fn:175">175</a> Minor complications are reported to occur in approximately 3.8%.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:176" href="#fn:176">176</a> Severe complications are rare.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:177" href="#fn:177">177</a> A specific complication rate is difficult to determine due to inconsistencies in classification.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:178" href="#fn:178">178</a> Complication rates are greater when the procedure is performed by an inexperienced operator, in unsterile conditions, or when the child is at an older age.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:179" href="#fn:179">179</a> Significant acute complications happen rarely,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:180" href="#fn:180">180</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:181" href="#fn:181">181</a> occurring in about 1 in 500 newborn procedures in the United States.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:182" href="#fn:182">182</a> Severe to catastrophic complications, including death, are so rare that they are reported only as individual case reports.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:183" href="#fn:183">183</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:184" href="#fn:184">184</a> Where a Plastibell device is used, the most common complication is the retention of the device occurring in around 3.5% of procedures.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:185" href="#fn:185">185</a> Other possible complications include <a href="/facts/Buried_penis/K89R2U9K">buried penis</a>, <a href="/facts/Chordee/IgRTLEeI">chordee</a>, <a href="/facts/Phimosis/9w24WHUS">phimosis</a>, <a href="/facts/Skin_bridge/yCYEzIAV">skin bridges</a>, urethral fistulas, and <a href="/facts/Meatal_stenosis/zpQyL8Kd">meatal stenosis</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:186" href="#fn:186">186</a> These complications may be partly avoided with proper technique, and are often treatable without requiring surgical revision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:187" href="#fn:187">187</a> The most common long-term complication is meatal stenosis, this is almost exclusively seen in circumcised children, it is thought to be caused by ammonia producing bacteria coming into contact with the meatus in circumcised infants.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:188" href="#fn:188">188</a> It can be treated by <a href="/facts/Meatotomy/nJG0dmtF">meatotomy</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:189" href="#fn:189">189</a>
Effective pain management should be used during the procedure.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:190" href="#fn:190">190</a> Inadequate pain relief may carry the risks of heightened pain response for newborns.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:191" href="#fn:191">191</a> Newborns that experience pain due to being circumcised have different responses to vaccines given afterwards, with higher pain scores observed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:192" href="#fn:192">192</a> For adult men who have been circumcised, there is a risk that the <a href="/facts/Circumcision_scar/vxrDhMwM">circumcision scar</a> may be tender.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:193" href="#fn:193">193</a> There is no good evidence that circumcision affects cognitive abilities.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:194" href="#fn:194">194</a>

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
Main article: <a href="/facts/History_of_circumcision/v17CcMIH">History of circumcision</a>

The word circumcision is from Latin circumcidere, meaning "to cut around".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:195" href="#fn:195">195</a> Circumcision is the oldest known surgical procedure.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:196" href="#fn:196">196</a> Depictions of circumcised penises are found in <a href="/facts/Paleolithic_art/ftGcpQJy">Paleolithic art</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:197" href="#fn:197">197</a> predating the earliest signs of <a href="/facts/Trepanning/q9PfraSC">trepanation</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:198" href="#fn:198">198</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:199" href="#fn:199">199</a>
The history of the migration and evolution of circumcision is known mainly from the cultures of two regions. In the lands south and east of the Mediterranean, starting with Central Sahara, Sudan and Ethiopia, the procedure was practiced by the <a href="/facts/Ancient_Egypt/BDsEGK4g">ancient Egyptians</a> and the <a href="/facts/Semitic_people/PhSYEMbg">Semites</a>, and then by the Jews and Muslims. In Oceania, circumcision is practiced by the <a href="/facts/Aboriginal_Australians/DNAQ5z5m">Australian Aboriginals</a> and <a href="/facts/Polynesians/9bNzIHx9">Polynesians</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:200" href="#fn:200">200</a> There is also evidence that circumcision was practiced among the <a href="/facts/Aztec/Tn5vj064">Aztec</a> and <a href="/facts/Maya_civilization/JMynpRSR">Mayan</a> civilizations in the Americas,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:201" href="#fn:201">201</a> but little is known about that history.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:202" href="#fn:202">202</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:203" href="#fn:203">203</a>
It has been speculated that circumcision originated as a substitute for <a href="/facts/Castration/QdBkfLCK">castration</a> of defeated enemies or as a <a href="/facts/Sacrifice/nTYAYulo">religious sacrifice</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:204" href="#fn:204">204</a> In many traditions, it acts as a <a href="/facts/Rite_of_passage/GbQjNoee">rite of passage</a> marking a boy's entrance into <a href="/facts/Adult/dojHcGa2">adulthood</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:205" href="#fn:205">205</a>

<h3>Middle East, Africa and Europe</h3>
Further information: <a href="/facts/Circumcision_in_Africa/0aLsvdmF">Circumcision in Africa</a>
At <a href="/facts/Rock_engravings_of_Oued_Djerat/XKGIVT1q">Oued Djerat</a>, in <a href="/facts/Algeria/UXDF4Tj6">Algeria</a>, engraved rock art with masked bowmen, which feature male circumcision and may be a scene involving ritual, have been dated to earlier than 6000 BP amid the <a href="/facts/Bubaline_Period/WbzVXG96">Bubaline Period</a>;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:206" href="#fn:206">206</a> more specifically, while possibly dating much earlier than 10,000 BP, rock art walls from the Bubaline Period have been dated between 9200 BP and 5500 BP.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:207" href="#fn:207">207</a> The cultural practice of circumcision may have spread from the Central <a href="/facts/Sahara/JVlJd2VC">Sahara</a>, toward the south in <a href="/facts/Sub-Saharan_Africa/p4u389aa">Sub-Saharan Africa</a> and toward the east in the region of the <a href="/facts/Nile/vGoXVUFH">Nile</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:208" href="#fn:208">208</a> Based on <a href="/facts/Petroglyph/c1Vn0pJ4">engraved</a> evidence found on walls and evidence from <a href="/facts/Mummy/nDaeqf5N">mummies</a>, circumcision has been dated to at least as early as 6000 BCE in <a href="/facts/Ancient_Egypt/BDsEGK4g">ancient Egypt</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:209" href="#fn:209">209</a> Some <a href="/facts/Ancient_Egyptian_funerary_practices/xVJ3NlWp">ancient Egyptian mummies</a>, which have been dated as early as 4000 BCE, show evidence of circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:210" href="#fn:210">210</a>: 2–3 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:211" href="#fn:211">211</a>
Evidence suggests that circumcision was practiced in the Middle East by the fourth millennium BCE, when the <a href="/facts/Sumer/bxRz093q">Sumerians</a> and the Semites moved into the area that is modern-day Iraq from the North and West.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:212" href="#fn:212">212</a> The earliest historical record of circumcision comes from Egypt, in the form of an image of the circumcision of an adult carved into the tomb of Ankh-Mahor at <a href="/facts/Saqqara/QtU8ETnb">Saqqara</a>, dating to about 2400–2300 BCE. Circumcision was possibly done by the Egyptians for hygienic reasons, but also was part of their obsession with purity and was associated with spiritual and intellectual development. No well-accepted theory explains the significance of circumcision to the Egyptians, but it appears to have been endowed with great honor and importance as a <a href="/facts/Rite_of_passage/GbQjNoee">rite of passage</a>, performed in a public ceremony emphasizing the continuation of family generations and fertility. It may have been a mark of distinction for the elite: the Egyptian <a href="/facts/Book_of_the_Dead/DWfrbKtG">Book of the Dead</a> describes the sun god <a href="/facts/Ra/6K9eh6cP">Ra</a> as having circumcised himself.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:213" href="#fn:213">213</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:214" href="#fn:214">214</a>

Circumcision is prominent in the <a href="/facts/Hebrew_Bible/04qRIX0c">Hebrew Bible</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:215" href="#fn:215">215</a> In addition to proposing that circumcision was adopted by the Israelites purely as a religious mandate, scholars have suggested that Judaism's patriarchs and their followers adopted circumcision to make penile hygiene easier in hot, sandy climates; as a rite of passage into adulthood; or as a form of blood sacrifice.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:216" href="#fn:216">216</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:217" href="#fn:217">217</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:218" href="#fn:218">218</a>
Historical campaigns of <a href="/facts/Ethnocide/MKqJYe2u">ethnic, cultural, and religious persecution</a> frequently included bans on circumcision as a means of <a href="/facts/Forced_conversion/FNkkSDM4">forceful assimilation, conversion, and ethnocide</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:219" href="#fn:219">219</a> <a href="/facts/Alexander_the_Great/8N3gLElj">Alexander the Great</a> conquered the Middle East in the fourth century BCE, and in the following centuries ancient Greek cultures and values came to the Middle East. The Greeks abhorred circumcision, making life for circumcised Jews living among the Greeks and later the Romans very difficult.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:220" href="#fn:220">220</a> <a href="/facts/Circumcision_and_law/hNQzgtH1">Restrictions on the Jewish practice</a> by European governments have occurred several times in world history, including the <a href="/facts/Seleucid_Empire/NSYMLBYa">Seleucid Empire</a> under <a href="/facts/Antiochus_IV_Epiphanes/JzT9HYjk">Antiochus IV</a> and the <a href="/facts/Roman_Empire/l4E1aUuV">Roman Empire</a> under <a href="/facts/Hadrian/e1RoggvV">Hadrian</a>, where it was used as a means of <a href="/facts/Forced_conversion/FNkkSDM4">forceful assimilation and conversion</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:221" href="#fn:221">221</a> Antiochus IV's restriction on Jewish circumcision was a major factor in the <a href="/facts/Maccabean_Revolt/gTPVWy1L">Maccabean Revolt</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:222" href="#fn:222">222</a> <a href="/facts/Hadrian/e1RoggvV">Hadrian</a>'s prohibition has also been considered by some to have been a contributing cause of the <a href="/facts/Bar_Kokhba_revolt/EP2jl4f4">Bar Kokhba revolt</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:223" href="#fn:223">223</a> According to Silverman (2006), these restrictions were part of a "broad campaign" by the Romans to "civilize" the Jewish people, viewing the practice as repulsive and analogous to <a href="/facts/Castration/QdBkfLCK">castration</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:224" href="#fn:224">224</a> His successor, <a href="/facts/Antoninus_Pius/Vmpxy9Fs">Antoninus Pius</a>, altered the edict to permit Brit Milah.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:225" href="#fn:225">225</a> During this period in history, Jewish circumcision called for the removal of only a part of the prepuce, and <a href="/facts/Hellenization/w07GMufL">Hellenized</a> Jews often attempted to look uncircumcised by stretching the extant parts of their foreskins. This was considered by the Jewish leaders to be a serious problem, and during the second century CE they changed the requirements of Jewish circumcision to call for the complete removal of the foreskin,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:226" href="#fn:226">226</a> emphasizing the Jewish view of circumcision as intended to be not just the fulfillment of a Biblical commandment but also an essential and permanent mark of membership in a people.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:227" href="#fn:227">227</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:228" href="#fn:228">228</a>

A narrative in the Christian <a href="/facts/Gospel_of_Luke/TWayBl9v">Gospel of Luke</a> makes a brief mention of the <a href="/facts/Circumcision_of_Jesus/JABgdBD8">circumcision of Jesus</a>, but physical circumcision is not part of the received teachings of Jesus. Circumcision has <a href="/facts/Circumcision_controversy_in_early_Christianity/XFP1GVh7">played an important role</a> in <a href="/facts/History_of_Christianity/LmdNJmea">Christian history</a> and <a href="/facts/Christian_theology/sLefEsAd">theology</a>. <a href="/facts/Paul_the_Apostle/mIAFgUw7">Paul the Apostle</a> reinterpreted circumcision as a spiritual concept, arguing literal circumcision to be unnecessary for Gentile converts to Christianity. The teaching that circumcision was unnecessary for membership in a divine covenant was instrumental to the separation of Christianity from Judaism.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:229" href="#fn:229">229</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:230" href="#fn:230">230</a> While the circumcision of Jesus is celebrated as <a href="/facts/Feast_of_the_Circumcision_of_Christ/3R94jXsn">a feast day</a> in the <a href="/facts/Liturgical_year/jAWrf1uF">liturgical calendar</a> of many <a href="/facts/Christian_denomination/rRQgoQd8">Christian denominations</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:231" href="#fn:231">231</a>
Although it is not explicitly mentioned in the <a href="/facts/Quran/39rkStko">Quran</a> (early seventh century CE), circumcision is considered essential to Islam, and it is nearly universally performed among Muslims. The practice of circumcision spread across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Europe with Islam.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:232" href="#fn:232">232</a>
<a href="/facts/Genghis_Khan/2cmqeW6a">Genghis Khan</a> and the following Yuan Emperors in China forbade Islamic practices such as <a href="/facts/Halal/KtJQsKl8">halal</a> butchering and circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:233" href="#fn:233">233</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:234" href="#fn:234">234</a>
The practice of circumcision is thought to have been brought to the Bantu-speaking tribes of Africa by either the Jews after one of their many expulsions from European countries, or by Muslim Moors escaping after the 1492 <a href="/facts/Reconquista/N1yFfeWf">reconquest</a> of Spain. In the second half of the first millennium CE, inhabitants from the Northeast of Africa moved south and encountered groups from Arabia, the Middle East, and West Africa. These people moved south and formed what is known today as the Bantu. Bantu tribes were observed to be upholding what was described as Jewish law, including circumcision, in the 16th century. Circumcision and elements of Jewish dietary restrictions are still found among Bantu tribes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:235" href="#fn:235">235</a>

<h3>Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Oceania</h3>
Circumcision is practiced by some groups amongst <a href="/facts/Australian_Aboriginal/DNAQ5z5m">Australian Aboriginal</a> peoples, <a href="/facts/Polynesians/9bNzIHx9">Polynesians</a>, and <a href="/facts/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas/LG2r6wXm">Native Americans</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:236" href="#fn:236">236</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:237" href="#fn:237">237</a>
For Aboriginal Australians and Polynesians, circumcision likely started as a blood sacrifice and a test of bravery and became an initiation rite with attendant instruction in manhood in more recent centuries. Often seashells were used to remove the foreskin, and the bleeding was stopped with <a href="/facts/Eucalyptus/Y0BjE3KQ">eucalyptus</a> smoke.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:238" href="#fn:238">238</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:239" href="#fn:239">239</a>
<a href="/facts/Christopher_Columbus/8hLAb46S">Christopher Columbus</a> reported circumcision being practiced by Native Americans.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:240" href="#fn:240">240</a> It probably started among South American tribes as a blood sacrifice or ritual to test bravery and endurance, and later evolved into a rite of initiation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:241" href="#fn:241">241</a>

<h3>Prophylactic circumcision</h3>
<h4>Anglophonic adoption (1855–1918)</h4>

Circumcision began to be advocated as a means of prophylaxis in 1855, primarily as a means of preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted infections. At this time, <a href="/facts/British_people/xn7cqlzV">British</a> physician <a href="/facts/Jonathan_Hutchinson/V1yQzzb8">Jonathan Hutchinson</a> published his findings that, among his venereal disease patients, Jews had a lower prevalence of <a href="/facts/Syphilis/fdnGLyLT">syphilis</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:242" href="#fn:242">242</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:243" href="#fn:243">243</a> Hutchinson suggested that circumcision lowers the risk of contracting syphilis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:244" href="#fn:244">244</a> Pursuing a successful career as a general practitioner, Hutchinson went on to advocate circumcision for health reasons for the next fifty years,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:245" href="#fn:245">245</a> eventually earned a <a href="/facts/Knighthood/q6oIppem">knighthood</a> for his contributions to medicine. His viewpoint that circumcision was prophylactic against disease was adopted by other medical professionals.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:246" href="#fn:246">246</a>
In 1870, orthopedic surgeon <a href="/facts/Lewis_Sayre/9jDP0vy1">Lewis Sayre</a>, a founder of the <a href="/facts/American_Medical_Association/Wmfxy2xV">American Medical Association</a>, introduced circumcision in the United States as a purported cure for several cases of young boys presenting with paralysis and other significant gross motor problems. He thought the procedure ameliorated such problems based on the then prominent "reflex neurosis" theory of disease, thinking that a tight foreskin inflamed the nerves and caused systemic problems.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:247" href="#fn:247">247</a> The use of circumcision to promote good health also fit the <a href="/facts/Germ_theory_of_disease/VReJjyw7">germ theory of disease</a>, which saw validation during the same period: the foreskin was thought to harbor infection-causing <a href="/facts/Smegma/N70r4rMz">smegma</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:248" href="#fn:248">248</a>: 106  Sayre published works on the subject and promoted it in speeches.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:249" href="#fn:249">249</a> Many contemporary physicians also believed it could cure, reduce, or otherwise prevent a wide-ranging array of perceived medical problems and social ills. Its popularity spread with publications such as Peter Charles Remondino's History of Circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:250" href="#fn:250">250</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:251" href="#fn:251">251</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:252" href="#fn:252">252</a> By the late 19th century, circumcision had become common throughout the <a href="/facts/English-speaking_world/qaq1SXu4">Anglophonic world</a>—Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom—as well as the <a href="/facts/Union_of_South_Africa/bwmp5mXt">Union of South Africa</a>. In the United Kingdom and United States, it was universally recommended.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:253" href="#fn:253">253</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:254" href="#fn:254">254</a> 

<h4>Interwar period and World War II (1918–1945)</h4>
During the <a href="/facts/Interwar_period/EWLuS41R">interwar period</a>, medical organizations and doctors in <a href="/facts/Continental_Europe/EXR4F23f">mainland Europe</a> experimented with the idea of routine circumcision for prophylactic reasons as well, alongside developments in the Anglophonic world. In France, the medical profession went so far as to recommend universal routine circumcision. However, prevalence in France and mainland Europe remained low.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:255" href="#fn:255">255</a> There is a lack of consensus in the academic literature on why this occurred.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:256" href="#fn:256">256</a>
Yosha & Bolnick & Koyle (2012) have suggested that a factor in its Anglophonic adoption and dismissal in mainland Europe relates to attitudes towards Judaism and Jewish practices. While many of these Anglophonic polities would not be considered tolerant by modern standards: the United Kingdom had <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Disraeli/86v3Qocw">Benjamin Disraeli</a>—a Jew—as <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom/Uf40UlBb">Prime Minister</a>; <a href="/facts/American_Jews/zXED0Gus">Jews in the United States</a> were prominent and generally well-respected; while in Australia "the racial issues of the time <a href="/facts/White_Australia_policy/1Lt32UYc">involved primarily Aborigines and Chinese immigration</a>, and Jews were essentially below the radar". They argue that once "a substantial proportion of the male population [was] circumcised, the idea that it [was] a Jewish practice [became] no longer relevant. In Britain this was aided by the fact that circumcision was well known to be as much a practice of the nobility as a Jewish religious rite, so that the racial-religious nexus was broken." These factors were absent in <a href="/facts/Continental_Europe/EXR4F23f">continental Europe</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:257" href="#fn:257">257</a>

Rates in the Anglophonic world began to sharply diverge after 1945.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:258" href="#fn:258">258</a> 
<h4>Mid-20th century (1945–1985)</h4>
After the end of <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a>, Britain implemented a <a href="/facts/National_Health_Service/lTzheqYw">National Health Service</a>. <a href="/facts/Douglas_Gairdner/5az5XwfJ">Douglas Gairdner</a>'s 1949 article "The Fate of the Foreskin" argued that the evidence showed that the risks outweighed the benefits, leading to a significant reduction in circumcision incidence within the United Kingdom.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:259" href="#fn:259">259</a>
In contrast to Gairdner, American pediatrician <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Spock/hprA1Dku">Benjamin Spock</a> argued in favor of circumcision in his popular <a href="/facts/The_Common_Sense_Book_of_Baby_and_Child_Care/5ttY62jN">The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care</a> which led to rates in the United States significantly rising. In the 1970s, national medical associations in Australia and Canada issued recommendations against routine infant circumcision, leading to drops in the rates of both of those countries. The United States made similar statements in the 1970s but stopped short of recommending against it.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:260" href="#fn:260">260</a>

<h4>Modernity (since 1985)</h4>
An association between circumcision and reduced heterosexual HIV infection rates was first suggested in 1986.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:261" href="#fn:261">261</a>
Experimental evidence was needed to establish a causal relationship, so three <a href="/facts/Randomized_controlled_trial/LG9lkyVx">randomized controlled trials</a> were commissioned to exclude other <a href="/facts/Confounding/G4TVx1dt">confounding factors</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:262" href="#fn:262">262</a> Trials took place in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:263" href="#fn:263">263</a> All three trials were stopped early by their monitoring boards because those in the circumcised group had a substantially lower rate of HIV contraction than the control group, so it was considered unethical to withhold the procedure, in light of strong evidence of prophylactic efficacy.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:264" href="#fn:264">264</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:265" href="#fn:265">265</a> WHO assessed these as "gold standard" studies and found "strong and consistent" evidence from later studies that confirmed the results of the studies.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:266" href="#fn:266">266</a> A scientific consensus subsequently developed that circumcision reduces heterosexual HIV infection rates in high-risk populations;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:267" href="#fn:267">267</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:268" href="#fn:268">268</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:269" href="#fn:269">269</a> the WHO, along with other major medical organizations, have since promoted circumcision of high-risk populations as part of the program to reduce the spread of HIV.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:270" href="#fn:270">270</a> The Male Circumcision Clearinghouse website was created in 2009 by WHO, UNAIDS, FHI and AVAC to provide evidence-based guidance, information, and resources to support the delivery of safe male circumcision services in countries that choose to scale up the procedure as one component of comprehensive HIV prevention services.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:271" href="#fn:271">271</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:272" href="#fn:272">272</a> During the mid-2020s, misinformation about circumcision has been spread by U.S. President <a href="/facts/Donald_Trump/pqqKY21P">Donald Trump</a> and many members of the <a href="/facts/Republican_Party_(United_States)/XXM1EVPr">Republican Party</a>, who have falsely alleged that it is ineffective in reducing HIV transmission as a justification for <a href="/facts/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development/7LRWB5Hy">USAID</a> cuts.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:273" href="#fn:273">273</a>

<h2 id="society-and-culture">Society and culture</h2>

Circumcision is one of the oldest surgical procedures in human history, and remains as highly emotional and controversial issue.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:274" href="#fn:274">274</a> Many societies hold a wide ranging perspectives and different cultural, ethical, or social <a href="/facts/Views_on_circumcision/kb0aUtsY">views on circumcision</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:275" href="#fn:275">275</a> In some cultures, males are generally required to be circumcised shortly after birth, during childhood or around puberty as part of a rite of passage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:276" href="#fn:276">276</a>
Circumcision is commonly practiced in the Jewish,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:277" href="#fn:277">277</a> Islamic,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:278" href="#fn:278">278</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:279" href="#fn:279">279</a> and <a href="/facts/Druze/HzEnIHJT">Druze</a> faiths, and among the members of <a href="/facts/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria/zL5NVSga">Coptic Church</a>, the <a href="/facts/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church/l46wvlRq">Ethiopian Orthodox Church</a> and the <a href="/facts/Eritrean_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church/zJPygneW">Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:280" href="#fn:280">280</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:281" href="#fn:281">281</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:282" href="#fn:282">282</a> In contrast, other religions, such as <a href="/facts/Mandaeism/lAVGX7tJ">Mandaeism</a>, <a href="/facts/Hinduism/oxV9YvQh">Hinduism</a> and <a href="/facts/Sikhism/obh7aQIr">Sikhism</a>, strongly prohibit the practice of routine circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:283" href="#fn:283">283</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:284" href="#fn:284">284</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:285" href="#fn:285">285</a>

<h3>Religious views on circumcision</h3>
See also: <a href="/facts/Religious_male_circumcision/YQjYpKrt">Religious male circumcision</a>
<h4>Judaism</h4>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Brit_milah/KD1L3b15">Brit milah</a>Circumcision is near-universal among Jews.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:286" href="#fn:286">286</a> The <a href="/facts/Mitzvah/agPGHqUE">mitzvah</a> of circumcision on the eighth day of life is considered among the <a href="/facts/613_commandments/4AqtnMzm">most important commandments in Judaism</a>. Barring extraordinary circumstances, failure to undergo the rite is seen by followers of <a href="/facts/Judaism/tjQ5Tgs6">Judaism</a> as leading to a state of <a href="/facts/Kareth/sfgDYtBC">Kareth</a>: the extinction of the <a href="/facts/Soul/DJl01SxP">soul</a> and denial of a share in the <a href="/facts/Jewish_eschatology/KHdACCGc">world to come</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:287" href="#fn:287">287</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:288" href="#fn:288">288</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:289" href="#fn:289">289</a> Reasons for biblical circumcision include to show off "patrilineal descent, sexual fertility, male initiation, cleansing of birth impurity, and dedication to God".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:290" href="#fn:290">290</a>

The basis for its observance is found in the <a href="/facts/Torah/BdJr9IFo">Torah</a> of the Hebrew Bible, in <a href="/facts/Lech-Lecha/NTF08fRt">Genesis chapter 17</a>, in which a covenant of circumcision is made with Abraham household and his descendants. Jewish circumcision is part of the <a href="/facts/Brit_milah/KD1L3b15">brit milah</a> ritual, to be performed by a trained ritual circumciser, a <a href="/facts/Mohel/DJXQIm4J">mohel</a>, on the eighth day of a newborn son's life, with certain exceptions for poor health. Jewish law requires that the circumcision leaves the glans bare when the penis is flaccid. Mainstream Judaism foresees serious negative spiritual consequences if it is neglected.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:291" href="#fn:291">291</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:292" href="#fn:292">292</a>
In <a href="https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/17-12.htm">Genesis 17:10-12</a> God specifies that even slaves must be circumcised. But Rabbinic judaism condemns forced conversion so Gentiles only required to get circumcised if they shows genuine interest in joining the Jewish nation. If an improper circumcision has already been performed it is required that a <a href="/facts/Hatafat_dam_brit/KD1L3b15">drop of blood be drawn</a> as a symbolic circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:293" href="#fn:293">293</a> Though there are certain exceptions for those with poor health.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:294" href="#fn:294">294</a> The Reform and Reconstructionist movements generally do not require a circumcision as part of the conversion process.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:295" href="#fn:295">295</a> According to traditional Jewish law, in the absence of an adult free Jewish male expert, a woman, a slave, or a child who has the required skills is also authorized to perform the circumcision, provided that they are Jewish.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:296" href="#fn:296">296</a> However, most streams of non-Orthodox Judaism allow female mohels, called mohalot (<a href="/facts/Hebrew_language/hqKCSy9d">Hebrew</a>: מוֹהֲלוֹת, the plural of מוֹהֶלֶת mohelet, feminine of mohel), without restriction. In 1984 Deborah Cohen became the first certified Reform mohelet; she was certified by the Berit Mila program of Reform Judaism.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:297" href="#fn:297">297</a>
An increasing number of Jews in the United States have chosen not to circumcise their sons.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:298" href="#fn:298">298</a> All major rabbinical organizations make the recommendation that male infants should be circumcised. The issue of converts remains controversial in Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:299" href="#fn:299">299</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:300" href="#fn:300">300</a>

<h4>Islam</h4>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Khitan_(circumcision)/whFfDoXf">Khitan (circumcision)</a>
Islamic scholars have diverse opinions on the obligatory nature of male circumcision, with some considering it mandatory (<a href="/facts/Wajib/Pytrmb8g">wājib</a>), while others view it as only being recommended (<a href="/facts/Sunnah/fmXN1E1q">sunnah</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:301" href="#fn:301">301</a> According to <a href="/facts/History_of_religion/jPA9XtLs">historians of religion</a> and scholars of <a href="/facts/Religious_studies/evl1y5M8">religious studies</a>, the Islamic tradition of circumcision was derived from the <a href="/facts/Religion_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia/o6PGSzCm">Pagan practices and rituals</a> of <a href="/facts/Pre-Islamic_Arabia/v6TGYKyB">pre-Islamic Arabia</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:302" href="#fn:302">302</a> Although there is some debate within Islam over whether it is a religious requirement or mere recommendation, circumcision (called khitan) is practiced nearly universally by Muslim males. Islam bases its practice of circumcision on the Genesis 17 narrative, the same Biblical chapter referred to by Jews. The procedure is not explicitly mentioned in the Quran, however, it is a tradition established by Islam's prophet <a href="/facts/Muhammad/5VcA7XrT">Muhammad</a> directly (following Abraham), and so its practice is considered a <a href="/facts/Sunnah/fmXN1E1q">sunnah</a> (prophet's tradition) and is very important in Islam. For Muslims, circumcision is also a matter of cleanliness, purification and control over one's baser self (<a href="/facts/Nafs/8xehJvXB">nafs</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:303" href="#fn:303">303</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:304" href="#fn:304">304</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:305" href="#fn:305">305</a>

There is no agreement across the many Islamic communities about the age at which circumcision should be performed. It may be done from soon after birth up to about age 15; most often it is performed at around six to seven years of age. The timing can correspond with the boy's completion of his recitation of the whole Quran, with a coming-of-age event such as taking on the responsibility of daily prayer or betrothal. Circumcision may be celebrated with an associated family or community event. Circumcision is recommended for, but is not required of, converts to Islam.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:306" href="#fn:306">306</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:307" href="#fn:307">307</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:308" href="#fn:308">308</a>

<h4>Christianity</h4>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Religious_male_circumcision/YQjYpKrt">Religious male circumcision § In Christianity</a>
Traditionally, circumcision has not been practiced by Christians for religious reasons, the practice was viewed as succeeded by <a href="/facts/Baptism/wEY6gtGA">Baptism</a> and the <a href="/facts/New_Testament/k066sDIn">New Testament</a> chapter <a href="/facts/Council_of_Jerusalem/D6pakEY5">Acts 15</a> recorded that Christianity did not require circumcision from new converts.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:309" href="#fn:309">309</a> Christian denominations generally hold a neutral position on circumcision for prophylactic, cultural, and social reasons, while strongly opposing it for religious reasons. This includes the <a href="/facts/Catholic_Church/rJ4F4gqH">Catholic Church</a>, which explicitly banned the practice of religious circumcision in the <a href="/facts/Council_of_Florence/aaA8rq7a">Council of Florence</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:310" href="#fn:310">310</a> and maintains a neutral position on the practice of circumcision for other reasons.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:311" href="#fn:311">311</a> A majority of other <a href="/facts/Christian_denominations/rRQgoQd8">Christian denominations</a> take a similar position on circumcision, prohibiting it for religious observance, but neither explicitly supporting or forbidding it for other reasons.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:312" href="#fn:312">312</a>

Thus, circumcision rates of Christians are predominately determined by the surrounding cultures which they live in. In some <a href="/facts/Christianity_in_Africa/dLAbQN4e">African</a> and <a href="/facts/Eastern_Christianity/ks2ztPhI">Eastern Christian denominations</a> circumcision is an established practice,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:313" href="#fn:313">313</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:314" href="#fn:314">314</a> and generally boys undergo circumcision shortly after birth as part of a <a href="/facts/Rite_of_passage/GbQjNoee">rite of passage</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:315" href="#fn:315">315</a> Circumcision is near-universal among <a href="/facts/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria/zL5NVSga">Coptic Christians</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:316" href="#fn:316">316</a> and they practice circumcision as a rite of passage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:317" href="#fn:317">317</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:318" href="#fn:318">318</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:319" href="#fn:319">319</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:320" href="#fn:320">320</a> The <a href="/facts/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church/l46wvlRq">Ethiopian Orthodox Church</a> calls for circumcision, with near-universal prevalence among Orthodox men in Ethiopia.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:321" href="#fn:321">321</a> <a href="/facts/Eritrean_Orthodox/zJPygneW">Eritrean Orthodox</a> practice circumcision as a rite of passage, and they circumcise their sons "anywhere from the first week of life to the first few year".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:322" href="#fn:322">322</a> Some Christian churches in South Africa disapprove of the practice, while others require it of their members.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:323" href="#fn:323">323</a>
Circumcision is practiced in many predominantly <a href="/facts/Christianity_by_country/DDuIgn8j">Christian countries</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:324" href="#fn:324">324</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:325" href="#fn:325">325</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:326" href="#fn:326">326</a> <a href="/facts/Christians/15hE11VR">Christian communities</a> in <a href="/facts/Africa/XkqQUP9s">Africa</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:327" href="#fn:327">327</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:328" href="#fn:328">328</a> some <a href="/facts/Anglosphere/mRuTW7Y5">Anglosphere countries</a>, the Philippines, the Middle East,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:329" href="#fn:329">329</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:330" href="#fn:330">330</a> South Korea and <a href="/facts/Oceania/vzTEvsfV">Oceania</a> have high circumcision rates,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:331" href="#fn:331">331</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:332" href="#fn:332">332</a> while Christian communities in <a href="/facts/Europe/DTAtrKfh">Europe</a> and <a href="/facts/South_America/PhrFEMk7">South America</a> have low circumcision rates, although none of these are performed out of perceived religious obligation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:333" href="#fn:333">333</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:334" href="#fn:334">334</a> Scholar Heather L. Armstrong writes that, as of 2021, about half of Christian males worldwide are circumcised, with most of them being located in Africa, Anglosphere countries, and the Philippines.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:335" href="#fn:335">335</a>

<h4>Druze faith</h4>

Circumcision is widely practiced by the <a href="/facts/Druze/HzEnIHJT">Druze</a>;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:336" href="#fn:336">336</a> Druze practice Druzism, an <a href="/facts/Abrahamic_religions/y9z2Wf9q">Abrahamic</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:337" href="#fn:337">337</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:338" href="#fn:338">338</a> <a href="/facts/Monotheistic/scRUM2It">monotheistic</a>, <a href="/facts/Syncretic_religion/UQXQXSts">syncretic</a>, and <a href="/facts/Ethnic_religion/0en4Qxjs">ethnic religion</a>. The procedure is practiced as a cultural tradition, and has no religious significance in the Druze faith.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:339" href="#fn:339">339</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:340" href="#fn:340">340</a> There is no special date for this act in the <a href="/facts/Druze_faith/HzEnIHJT">Druze faith</a>: male Druze infants are usually circumcised shortly after birth,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:341" href="#fn:341">341</a> however some remain uncircumcised until the age of ten or older.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:342" href="#fn:342">342</a> Some Druses do not circumcise their male children and refuse to observe this "common Muslim practice".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:343" href="#fn:343">343</a>

<h4>Samaritanism</h4>
Like Judaism, the religion of <a href="/facts/Samaritanism/Vl2fu4xv">Samaritanism</a> requires ritual circumcision on the eighth day of life.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:344" href="#fn:344">344</a>

<h4>Mandaeism</h4>
Circumcision is forbidden in <a href="/facts/Mandaeism/lAVGX7tJ">Mandaeism</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:345" href="#fn:345">345</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:346" href="#fn:346">346</a> and the sign of the Jews given to <a href="/facts/Abraham/groXmSSm">Abraham</a> by God, circumcision, is considered abhorrent by the <a href="/facts/Mandaeans/lAVGX7tJ">Mandaeans</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:347" href="#fn:347">347</a> According to Mandaean doctrine, a circumcised man cannot serve as a <a href="/facts/Mandaean_priest/zsBrTKPh">Mandaean priest</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:348" href="#fn:348">348</a>

<h4>Yazidism</h4>
Circumcision is not required in <a href="/facts/Yazidism/IkLNfLnN">Yazidism</a>, but is practised by some <a href="/facts/Yazidis/EKqxwqte">Yazidis</a> due to regional customs.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:349" href="#fn:349">349</a> The ritual is usually performed soon after birth; it takes place on the knees of the kerîf (approximately "godfather"), with whom the child will have a life-long formal relationship.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:350" href="#fn:350">350</a>

<h4>Hinduism</h4>

In <a href="/facts/Hinduism/oxV9YvQh">Hinduism</a>, the major scriptures <a href="/facts/Upanishads/hr64Hhdn">Upanishads</a> state that the nature of the higher self (<a href="/facts/Brahman/GM0QaQ9U">Brahman</a>), in essence, is bliss (<a href="/facts/%25C4%2580nanda_(Hindu_philosophy)/lhp3RmFB">ānanda</a>), which the self in each being (<a href="/facts/%25C4%2580tman_(Hinduism)/8X7tehzj">Atman</a>) experiences during dreamless deep sleep, but remains unconscious of it, and experience it in a conscious state during <a href="/facts/Sensation_play/gz9XDcSH">sensual activity</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:351" href="#fn:351">351</a>: 48  The upanishads propound that in humans, just as eyes correspond to the experience of sight, nose with smell, ears with sound, and tongue with taste, the <a href="/facts/Human_reproductive_system/gL90a4cf">genitals</a> correspond to "bliss, delight and procreation".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:352" href="#fn:352">352</a> One of the principal upanishads, <a href="/facts/Brihadaranyaka_Upanishad/7Bod22eh">Brihadaranyaka Upanishad</a>, states that in humans, genitals are the "single locus of pleasure (ānanda)".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:353" href="#fn:353">353</a> In <a href="/facts/Sanskrit_literature/cpa4ENpL">Sanskrit literature</a>, the male genitalia is called Upastha ("that which stands up") and is traditionally considered to be a "source of great power or vitality (ojas)."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:354" href="#fn:354">354</a> In Yoga physiology, the penis corresponds with <a href="/facts/Svadhishthana/B4WbFRvB">svadhishthana</a> chakra, and channels the flow of <a href="/facts/Nadi_(yoga)/8jf3Pqt6">nadis</a>, which enable higher sensations and consciousness.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:355" href="#fn:355">355</a> Consequently, circumcision, or even an interference with a tight foreskin, is strictly forbidden in <a href="/facts/Sampradaya/pcUbwrEg">Hindu traditions</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:356" href="#fn:356">356</a>

<h4>Sikhism</h4>
<a href="/facts/Sikhism/obh7aQIr">Sikhism</a> does not require the elective circumcision of its followers and strongly criticizes the practice.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:357" href="#fn:357">357</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:358" href="#fn:358">358</a> The <a href="/facts/Guru_Granth_Sahib/BrSkBs8H">Guru Granth Sahib</a> criticizes circumcision in a hymn.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:359" href="#fn:359">359</a> The holy book of Sikhs, dating to 1708, specifically bans circumcision as an Islamic custom, saying: "If God wished me to be a Muslim, it would be cut off by itself."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:360" href="#fn:360">360</a>

<h4>Buddhism</h4>
In <a href="/facts/Buddhism/G0wsjrSl">Buddhism</a>, the number 10 of the overall 32 attributes of the <a href="/facts/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism/AGFXqGgz">enlightened</a> individual is possibly a reference to circumcision, which says: "His sexual organs are concealed in a sheath and exude a pleasant odor similar to vanilla." Due to the ambivalent nature of this scriptural reference, Buddhists do not circumcise, however Buddhist men often retract their foreskins permanently.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:361" href="#fn:361">361</a>

<h3>Cultural views on circumcision</h3>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Cultural_views_on_circumcision/kb0aUtsY">Cultural views on circumcision</a>
<h4>African cultures</h4>
This section is an excerpt from <a href="/facts/Circumcision_in_Africa/0aLsvdmF">Circumcision in Africa</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circumcision_in_Africa&action=edit">edit</a>]
<a href="/facts/Circumcision_in_Africa/0aLsvdmF">Circumcision in Africa</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Traditional_African_religions/782bHTkX">rites of initiation</a> in <a href="/facts/Africa/XkqQUP9s">Africa</a>, as well as "the frequent resemblance between details of ceremonial procedure in areas thousands of kilometres apart, indicate that the circumcision ritual has an old tradition behind it and in its present form is the result of a long process of development."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:362" href="#fn:362">362</a>
<h4>Australian cultures</h4>
Some <a href="/facts/Australian_Aboriginal/DNAQ5z5m">Australian Aborigines</a> use circumcision as a test of bravery and self-control as a part of a rite of passage into manhood, which results in full societal and ceremonial membership. It may be accompanied by body <a href="/facts/Scarification/rSXLpqQA">scarification</a> and the removal of teeth, and may be followed later by <a href="/facts/Penile_subincision/am4wAps9">penile subincision</a>. Circumcision is one of many trials and ceremonies required before a youth is considered to have become knowledgeable enough to maintain and pass on the cultural traditions. During these trials, the maturing youth bonds in solidarity with the men. Circumcision is also strongly associated with a man's family, and it is part of the process required to prepare a man to take a wife and produce his own family.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:363" href="#fn:363">363</a>

<h4>Filipino culture</h4>
Main article: <a href="/facts/Tuli_(rite)/kScxdjla">Tuli (rite)</a>
In the Philippines, circumcision is known as "tuli" and is generally viewed as a rite of passage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:364" href="#fn:364">364</a> An overwhelming majority of Filipino men are circumcised.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:365" href="#fn:365">365</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:366" href="#fn:366">366</a> Often this occurs, in April and May, when Filipino boys are taken by their parents. The practice dates back to the arrival of <a href="/facts/Islam/zDLbL45C">Islam</a> in 1450. Pressure to be circumcised is even in the language: one <a href="/facts/Tagalog_profanity/lrJhwtvG">Tagalog profanity</a> for 'uncircumcised' is supot, meaning 'coward' literally. A circumcised eight or ten year-old is no longer considered a boy and is given more adult roles in the family and society.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:367" href="#fn:367">367</a>

<h3>Regulations</h3>
Worldwide, the large majority of polities do not have specific laws concerning the circumcision of males,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:368" href="#fn:368">368</a> with religious infant circumcision being legal in every country.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:369" href="#fn:369">369</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:370" href="#fn:370">370</a> A few countries have passed legislation on the procedure: Germany allows routine circumcision,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:371" href="#fn:371">371</a> while non-religious routine circumcision is illegal in South Africa and Sweden.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:372" href="#fn:372">372</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:373" href="#fn:373">373</a> No major medical organization recommends circumcising all males, and no major medical organization recommends banning the procedure.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:374" href="#fn:374">374</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:375" href="#fn:375">375</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:376" href="#fn:376">376</a>
In the academic literature, there is general agreement among both supporters and opponents of the practice that an outright ban would be predominately ineffective and "harmful".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:377" href="#fn:377">377</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:378" href="#fn:378">378</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:379" href="#fn:379">379</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:380" href="#fn:380">380</a> A consensus to keep the procedure within the purview of medical professionals is found across all major medical organizations, who advise medical professionals to yield to some degree to parental preferences in their decision to agree to circumcise.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:381" href="#fn:381">381</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:382" href="#fn:382">382</a> The Royal Dutch Medical Association, which expresses some of the strongest opposition to routine neonatal circumcision, argues that while there are valid reasons for banning it, doing so could lead parents who insist on the procedure to turn to poorly trained practitioners instead of medical professionals.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:383" href="#fn:383">383</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:384" href="#fn:384">384</a>
During the 2010s, several <a href="/facts/Right-wing_populism/Wr5gfR88">right-wing nationalist</a> parties prominently called for the banning of circumcision.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:385" href="#fn:385">385</a> Gressgård argued that politicians that supported Norway's proposed circumcision ban debated circumcision in a manner which constituted "<a href="/facts/Ethnocentrism/r8HdnN60">ethnocentrism</a>".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:386" href="#fn:386">386</a>

<h3>Economic considerations</h3>
The cost-effectiveness of circumcision has been studied to determine whether a policy of circumcising all newborns or a policy of promoting and providing inexpensive or free access to circumcision for all adult men who choose it would result in lower overall societal healthcare costs. As <a href="/facts/HIV%2fAIDS/RqLIEMuJ">HIV/AIDS</a> is an incurable disease that is expensive to manage, significant effort has been spent studying the cost-effectiveness of circumcision to reduce its spread in parts of Africa that have a relatively high infection rate and low circumcision prevalence.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:387" href="#fn:387">387</a> Several analyses have concluded that circumcision programs for adult men in Africa are cost-effective and in some cases are cost-saving.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:388" href="#fn:388">388</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:389" href="#fn:389">389</a> In Rwanda, circumcision has been found to be cost-effective across a wide range of age groups from newborn to adult,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:390" href="#fn:390">390</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:391" href="#fn:391">391</a> with the greatest savings achieved when the procedure is performed in the newborn period due to the lower cost per procedure and greater timeframe for HIV infection protection.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:392" href="#fn:392">392</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:393" href="#fn:393">393</a> Circumcision for the prevention of HIV transmission in adults has also been found to be cost-effective in South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda, with cost savings estimated in the billions of US dollars over 20 years.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:394" href="#fn:394">394</a> Hankins et al. (2011) estimated that a $1.5 billion investment in circumcision for adults in 13 high-priority African countries would yield $16.5 billion in savings.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:395" href="#fn:395">395</a>
The overall cost-effectiveness of neonatal circumcision has also been studied in the United States, which has a different cost setting from Africa in areas such as public health infrastructure, availability of medications, and medical technology and the willingness to use it.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:396" href="#fn:396">396</a> A study by the CDC suggests that newborn circumcision would be societally cost-effective in the United States based on circumcision's efficacy against the transmission of HIV alone during <a href="/facts/Coitus/okjwpVnB">coitus</a>, without considering any other cost benefits.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:397" href="#fn:397">397</a> The American Academy of Pediatrics (2012) recommends that neonatal circumcision in the United States be covered by third-party payers such as <a href="/facts/Medicaid/ml1fNWjX">Medicaid</a> and insurance.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:398" href="#fn:398">398</a> A 2014 review that considered reported benefits of circumcision such as reduced risks from HIV, HPV, and HSV-2 stated that circumcision is cost-effective in both the United States and Africa and may result in health care savings.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:399" href="#fn:399">399</a> A 2014 literature review found that there are significant gaps in the current literature on male and female sexual health that need to be addressed for the literature to be applicable to North American populations.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:400" href="#fn:400">400</a>

<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

<ul><li>Videos of infant circumcision: using a <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision/plastibell-technique.html">Plastibell</a>, a <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision/gomco-clamp-technique.html">Gomco clamp</a> and a <a href="https://med.stanford.edu/newborns/professional-education/circumcision/mogen-clamp-technique.html">Mogen clamp</a> (all from Stanford Medical School)</li>
<li>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw-124t993c">Xhosa circumcision</a> from National Geographic</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:2">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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Chikutsa A, Maharaj P (July 2015). "Social representations of male circumcision as prophylaxis against HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe". BMC Public Health. 15 (1): 603. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1967-z. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 4489047. PMID 26133368. It is now generally accepted in public health spheres that medical male circumcision is efficacious in the prevention of HIV infection.
Bell K (2016). Health and Other Unassailable Values: Reconfigurations of Health, Evidence and Ethics. Taylor & Francis. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-317-48203-1. ...defending the casual relation between male circumcision and reduced HIV transmission has become essentially hegemonic in the academic literature.
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<li id="fn:20">Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022. There are significant benefits in performing male circumcision in early infancy, and programmes that promote early infant male circumcision are likely to have lower morbidity rates and lower costs than programmes targeting adolescent boys and men. <a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:21">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:22">Caga-anan EC, Thomas AJ, Diekema DS, Mercurio MR, Adam MR (8 September 2011). Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-Based Textbook. Cambridge University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-521-17361-2. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. <a href="978-0-521-17361-2" target="_blank">978-0-521-17361-2</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:23">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:24">Al-Salem A (2016). An Illustrated Guide to Pediatric Urology. Springer Publishing. p. 481. ISBN 978-3-319-44182-5.Zirkumzision nach Dieffenbach. Archived 2 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine (vgl. Schumpelick u. a., S. 434 ff.) <a href="978-3-319-44182-5" target="_blank">978-3-319-44182-5</a> <a href="#fnref:24" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:25">Afshar K, Kazemi B, MacNeily A (2018). "The Role of Circumcision in Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections". In Singh S (ed.). Diagnostics to Pathogenomics of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Wiley. pp. 28–34. ISBN 978-1-119-38084-9. <a href="978-1-119-38084-9" target="_blank">978-1-119-38084-9</a> <a href="#fnref:25" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:26">Mark E (2003). "Frojmovic/Travelers to the Circumcision". The Covenant of Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite. Brandeis University Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-58465-307-3. Circumcision became the single most important commandment... the one without which... no Jew could attain the world to come. <a href="978-1-58465-307-3" target="_blank">978-1-58465-307-3</a> <a href="#fnref:26" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:27">Hamilton V (1990). The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1-17. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 473. ISBN 978-0-8028-2521-6. In fact, circumcision is only one of two performative commands, the neglect of which bring the kareth penalty. (The other is the failure to be cleansed from corpse contamination, umb. 19:11-22.) <a href="978-0-8028-2521-6" target="_blank">978-0-8028-2521-6</a> <a href="#fnref:27" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:28">Stearns PN (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-19-517632-2. Uniformly practiced by Jews, Muslims, and the members of Coptic, Ethiopian, and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, male circumcision remains prevalent in many regions of the world, particularly Africa, South and East Asia, Oceania, and Anglosphere countries. <a href="978-0-19-517632-2" target="_blank">978-0-19-517632-2</a> <a href="#fnref:28" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:29">Pitts-Taylor V (2008). Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 394. ISBN 9781567206913. For most part, Christianity does not require circumcision of its followers. Yet, some Orthodox and African Christian groups do require circumcision. These circumcisions take place at any point between birth and puberty. <a href="9781567206913" target="_blank">9781567206913</a> <a href="#fnref:29" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:30">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:30" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:31">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:31" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:32">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:32" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:33">Doyle D (October 2005). "Ritual male circumcision: a brief history" (PDF). The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 35 (3): 279–285. doi:10.1177/1478271520053503005. PMID 16402509. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023. <a href="https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:33" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:34">Alanis MC, Lucidi RS (May 2004). "Neonatal circumcision: a review of the world's oldest and most controversial operation". Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 59 (5): 379–395. doi:10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026. PMID 15097799. S2CID 25226185.Gressgård R (2012). Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts. Berghahn Books. pp. 7, 94. ISBN 978-0-85745-648-9. <a href="978-0-85745-648-9" target="_blank">978-0-85745-648-9</a> <a href="#fnref:34" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:38">Siegfried N, Muller M, Deeks JJ, Volmink J (April 2009). Siegfried N (ed.). "Male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2013 (2): CD003362. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD003362.pub2. PMC 11666075. PMID 19370585. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11666075" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11666075</a> <a href="#fnref:38" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:39">For sources on this, see:
Chikutsa A, Maharaj P (July 2015). "Social representations of male circumcision as prophylaxis against HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe". BMC Public Health. 15 (1): 603. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1967-z. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 4489047. PMID 26133368. It is now generally accepted in public health spheres that medical male circumcision is efficacious in the prevention of HIV infection.
Bell K (2016). Health and Other Unassailable Values: Reconfigurations of Health, Evidence and Ethics. Taylor & Francis. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-317-48203-1. ...defending the casual relation between male circumcision and reduced HIV transmission has become essentially hegemonic in the academic literature.
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<li id="fn:41">Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022. There are significant benefits in performing male circumcision in early infancy, and programmes that promote early infant male circumcision are likely to have lower morbidity rates and lower costs than programmes targeting adolescent boys and men. <a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1</a> <a href="#fnref:41" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:42">"Preventing HIV Through Safe Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision For Adolescent Boys And Men In Generalized HIV Epidemics". World Health Organization. 2020. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021. <a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/978-92-4-000854-0" target="_blank">https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/978-92-4-000854-0</a> <a href="#fnref:42" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:43">Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022. There are significant benefits in performing male circumcision in early infancy, and programmes that promote early infant male circumcision are likely to have lower morbidity rates and lower costs than programmes targeting adolescent boys and men. <a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1</a> <a href="#fnref:43" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:44">Marrazzo JM, del Rio C, Holtgrave DR, Cohen MS, Kalichman SC, Mayer KH, et al. (23–30 July 2014). "HIV prevention in clinical care settings: 2014 recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA Panel". JAMA. 312 (4): 390–409. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.7999. PMC 6309682. PMID 25038358. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6309682" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6309682</a> <a href="#fnref:44" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:45">Yuan T, Fitzpatrick T, Ko NY, Cai Y, Chen Y, Zhao J, et al. (April 2019). "Circumcision to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of global data". The Lancet. Global Health (Mata-analysis). 7 (4): e436 – e447. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30567-9. PMC 7779827. PMID 30879508. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779827" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779827</a> <a href="#fnref:45" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:46">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:46" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:47">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:47" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:48">Caga-anan EC, Thomas AJ, Diekema DS, Mercurio MR, Adam MR (8 September 2011). Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-Based Textbook. Cambridge University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-521-17361-2. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. <a href="978-0-521-17361-2" target="_blank">978-0-521-17361-2</a> <a href="#fnref:48" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:49">Pinto K (August 2012). "Circumcision controversies". Pediatric Clinics of North America. 59 (4): 977–986. doi:10.1016/j.pcl.2012.05.015. PMID 22857844. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:49" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:50">Wapner J (24 February 2015). "The Troubled History of Foreskin". Mosaic Science. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2022. In the decades since, medical practice has come to rely increasingly on evidence from large research studies, which, as many American doctors see it, have supported the existing rationale... How can experts who have undergone similar training evaluate the same studies and come to opposing conclusions? I've spent months scrutinising the medical literature in an attempt to decide which side is right. The task turned out to be nearly impossible. That's partly because there is so much confused thinking around the risks and benefits of circumcision, even among trained practitioners. <a href="https://mosaicscience.com/story/troubled-history-foreskin/" target="_blank">https://mosaicscience.com/story/troubled-history-foreskin/</a> <a href="#fnref:50" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:51">Gable L, Gamharter K, Gostin L, Hodge Jr J, Puymbroeck R (2007). "1.12 Male Circumcision". Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform. World Bank Publications. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-8213-7105-3."Sri Granth: Sri Guru Granth Sahib". www.srigranth.org. <a href="978-0-8213-7105-3" target="_blank">978-0-8213-7105-3</a> <a href="#fnref:51" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:52">Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022. There are significant benefits in performing male circumcision in early infancy, and programmes that promote early infant male circumcision are likely to have lower morbidity rates and lower costs than programmes targeting adolescent boys and men. <a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1</a> <a href="#fnref:52" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:53">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:53" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:54">Caga-anan EC, Thomas AJ, Diekema DS, Mercurio MR, Adam MR (8 September 2011). Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-Based Textbook. Cambridge University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-521-17361-2. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. <a href="978-0-521-17361-2" target="_blank">978-0-521-17361-2</a> <a href="#fnref:54" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:55">Morris BJ (November 2007). "Why circumcision is a biomedical imperative for the 21(st) century". BioEssays. 29 (11): 1147–1158. doi:10.1002/bies.20654. PMID 17935209. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17935209/" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17935209/</a> <a href="#fnref:55" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:56">Pinto K (August 2012). "Circumcision controversies". Pediatric Clinics of North America. 59 (4): 977–986. doi:10.1016/j.pcl.2012.05.015. PMID 22857844. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:56" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:57">American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision (September 2012). "Male circumcision". Pediatrics. 130 (3): e756 – e785. doi:10.1542/peds.2012-1990. PMID 22926175. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1542%2Fpeds.2012-1990" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1542%2Fpeds.2012-1990</a> <a href="#fnref:57" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:58">Press B, Jalfon M, Solomon D, Hittelman AB (July 2024). "Clinical and environmental considerations for neonatal, office-based circumcisions compared with operative circumcisions". Frontiers in Urology. 4. doi:10.3389/fruro.2024.1380154. ISSN 2673-9828. Neonatal circumcision is supported by both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) due to the belief that the health benefits outweigh the minimal risk of the procedure. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffruro.2024.1380154" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffruro.2024.1380154</a> <a href="#fnref:58" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:60">Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022. There are significant benefits in performing male circumcision in early infancy, and programmes that promote early infant male circumcision are likely to have lower morbidity rates and lower costs than programmes targeting adolescent boys and men. <a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1</a> <a href="#fnref:60" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:61">Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2010. Archived from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022. There are significant benefits in performing male circumcision in early infancy, and programmes that promote early infant male circumcision are likely to have lower morbidity rates and lower costs than programmes targeting adolescent boys and men. <a href="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44478/9789241500753_eng.pdf;jsessionid=53B12CB197A3AE365211417D2C812B5F?sequence=1</a> <a href="#fnref:61" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:167">The American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision "Technical Report" (2012) addresses sexual function, sensitivity and satisfaction without qualification by age of circumcision. Sadeghi-Nejad et al. "Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual function" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function. Doyle et al. "The Impact of Male Circumcision on HIV Transmission" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function. Perera et al. "Safety and efficacy of nontherapeutic male circumcision: a systematic review" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function and satisfaction.
Dave S, Afshar K, Braga LH, Anderson P (February 2018). "Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal circumcision in Canadian infants (full version)". Canadian Urological Association Journal. 12 (2): E76 – E99. doi:10.5489/cuaj.5033. PMC 5937400. PMID 29381458. There is lack of any convincing evidence that neonatal circumcision will impact sexual function or cause a perceptible change in penile sensation in adulthood.
Shabanzadeh DM, Düring S, Frimodt-Møller C (July 2016). "Male circumcision does not result in inferior perceived male sexual function - a systematic review". Danish Medical Journal (Systematic review). 63 (7). PMID 27399981.
Friedman B, Khoury J, Petersiel N, Yahalomi T, Paul M, Neuberger A (September 2016). "Pros and cons of circumcision: an evidence-based overview". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22 (9): 768–774. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.030. PMID 27497811.
Staff. "Statement on Newborn Male Circumcision". American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023. Some parents also may worry that circumcision harms a man's sexual function, sensitivity, or satisfaction. However, current evidence shows that it does not.
Shezi MH, Tlou B, Naidoo S (February 2023). "Knowledge, attitudes and acceptance of voluntary medical male circumcision among males attending high school in Shiselweni region, Eswatini: a cross sectional study". BMC Public Health. 23 (1): 349. doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15228-3. PMC 9933013. PMID 36797696. It was interesting to note that the young males in this study had misconceptions about sexual pleasure post male circumcision...
Sorokan ST, Finlay JC, Jefferies AL (8 September 2015). "Newborn male circumcision". Paediatrics & Child Health. 20 (6): 311–320. doi:10.1093/pch/20.6.311. PMC 4578472. PMID 26435672. ...medical studies do not support circumcision as having a negative impact on sexual function or satisfaction in males or their partners.
World Health Organization, UNAIDS, Jhpiego (December 2009). "Manual for Male Circumcision Under Local Anaesthesia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2012. ...there are many myths about male circumcision that circulate. For example, some people think that circumcision can cause impotence (failure of erection) or reduce sexual pleasure. Others think that circumcision will cure impotence. Let me assure you that none of these is true. Alt URL Archived 30 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine
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<li id="fn:169">The American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision "Technical Report" (2012) addresses sexual function, sensitivity and satisfaction without qualification by age of circumcision. Sadeghi-Nejad et al. "Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual function" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function. Doyle et al. "The Impact of Male Circumcision on HIV Transmission" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function. Perera et al. "Safety and efficacy of nontherapeutic male circumcision: a systematic review" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function and satisfaction.
Dave S, Afshar K, Braga LH, Anderson P (February 2018). "Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal circumcision in Canadian infants (full version)". Canadian Urological Association Journal. 12 (2): E76 – E99. doi:10.5489/cuaj.5033. PMC 5937400. PMID 29381458. There is lack of any convincing evidence that neonatal circumcision will impact sexual function or cause a perceptible change in penile sensation in adulthood.
Shabanzadeh DM, Düring S, Frimodt-Møller C (July 2016). "Male circumcision does not result in inferior perceived male sexual function - a systematic review". Danish Medical Journal (Systematic review). 63 (7). PMID 27399981.
Friedman B, Khoury J, Petersiel N, Yahalomi T, Paul M, Neuberger A (September 2016). "Pros and cons of circumcision: an evidence-based overview". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22 (9): 768–774. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.030. PMID 27497811.
Staff. "Statement on Newborn Male Circumcision". American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023. Some parents also may worry that circumcision harms a man's sexual function, sensitivity, or satisfaction. However, current evidence shows that it does not.
Shezi MH, Tlou B, Naidoo S (February 2023). "Knowledge, attitudes and acceptance of voluntary medical male circumcision among males attending high school in Shiselweni region, Eswatini: a cross sectional study". BMC Public Health. 23 (1): 349. doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15228-3. PMC 9933013. PMID 36797696. It was interesting to note that the young males in this study had misconceptions about sexual pleasure post male circumcision...
Sorokan ST, Finlay JC, Jefferies AL (8 September 2015). "Newborn male circumcision". Paediatrics & Child Health. 20 (6): 311–320. doi:10.1093/pch/20.6.311. PMC 4578472. PMID 26435672. ...medical studies do not support circumcision as having a negative impact on sexual function or satisfaction in males or their partners.
World Health Organization, UNAIDS, Jhpiego (December 2009). "Manual for Male Circumcision Under Local Anaesthesia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2012. ...there are many myths about male circumcision that circulate. For example, some people think that circumcision can cause impotence (failure of erection) or reduce sexual pleasure. Others think that circumcision will cure impotence. Let me assure you that none of these is true. Alt URL Archived 30 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine
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<li id="fn:172">The American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision "Technical Report" (2012) addresses sexual function, sensitivity and satisfaction without qualification by age of circumcision. Sadeghi-Nejad et al. "Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual function" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function. Doyle et al. "The Impact of Male Circumcision on HIV Transmission" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function. Perera et al. "Safety and efficacy of nontherapeutic male circumcision: a systematic review" (2010) addresses adult circumcision and sexual function and satisfaction.
Dave S, Afshar K, Braga LH, Anderson P (February 2018). "Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal circumcision in Canadian infants (full version)". Canadian Urological Association Journal. 12 (2): E76 – E99. doi:10.5489/cuaj.5033. PMC 5937400. PMID 29381458. There is lack of any convincing evidence that neonatal circumcision will impact sexual function or cause a perceptible change in penile sensation in adulthood.
Shabanzadeh DM, Düring S, Frimodt-Møller C (July 2016). "Male circumcision does not result in inferior perceived male sexual function - a systematic review". Danish Medical Journal (Systematic review). 63 (7). PMID 27399981.
Friedman B, Khoury J, Petersiel N, Yahalomi T, Paul M, Neuberger A (September 2016). "Pros and cons of circumcision: an evidence-based overview". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22 (9): 768–774. doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.030. PMID 27497811.
Staff. "Statement on Newborn Male Circumcision". American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023. Some parents also may worry that circumcision harms a man's sexual function, sensitivity, or satisfaction. However, current evidence shows that it does not.
Shezi MH, Tlou B, Naidoo S (February 2023). "Knowledge, attitudes and acceptance of voluntary medical male circumcision among males attending high school in Shiselweni region, Eswatini: a cross sectional study". BMC Public Health. 23 (1): 349. doi:10.1186/s12889-023-15228-3. PMC 9933013. PMID 36797696. It was interesting to note that the young males in this study had misconceptions about sexual pleasure post male circumcision...
Sorokan ST, Finlay JC, Jefferies AL (8 September 2015). "Newborn male circumcision". Paediatrics & Child Health. 20 (6): 311–320. doi:10.1093/pch/20.6.311. PMC 4578472. PMID 26435672. ...medical studies do not support circumcision as having a negative impact on sexual function or satisfaction in males or their partners.
World Health Organization, UNAIDS, Jhpiego (December 2009). "Manual for Male Circumcision Under Local Anaesthesia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2012. ...there are many myths about male circumcision that circulate. For example, some people think that circumcision can cause impotence (failure of erection) or reduce sexual pleasure. Others think that circumcision will cure impotence. Let me assure you that none of these is true. Alt URL Archived 30 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5937400" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5937400</a> <a href="#fnref:172" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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Livingston M (2021). Dreamworld or Dystopia: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-108-75726-3. In Jewish history, the banning of circumcision (brit mila) has historically been a first step toward more extreme and violent forms of persecution.
Wilson R (2018). The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-41760-0. Jews have a long history of suffering punishment at the hands of government authorities for engaging in circumcision. Muslims have also experienced suppression of their identities through suppression of this religious practice.
Miller GP (Spring 2002). "Circumcision: Cultural-Legal Analysis". Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 9: 497–585. doi:10.2139/ssrn.201057. SSRN 201057. Ritual circumcision of boys is a durable tradition. Jews of ancient times refused to abandon the practice despite enormous pressure to do so. In 167 BCE the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, as part of a campaign to Hellenise the Jews, condemned to death every Hebrew who allowed a son to be circumcised. The Jews responded with the Maccabean revolt, a campaign of guerrilla warfare which resulted in major victories for the rebels and, eventually, a peace treaty which restored Jewish ritual prerogatives.
Silverman E (2006). "Circumcision, Anti-Semitism, and Christ's Foreskin". From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7425-1669-4. Ancient [Greek and Roman] authors praised Jewish wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. Still, they always denounced circumcision. The anonymous authors of Historiae Augustae, writing in the late fourth century, ttributed a Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135, called the Bar Kokhba rebellion, to a ban on circumcision enacted by the emperor Hadrian... The prohibition was part of a broad campaign to "civilize" ethnic groups...
Rosner F (2003). Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. Feldheim Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-58330-592-8. Several eras in subsequent Jewish history were associated with forced conversions and with prohibitions against ritual circumcision... Jews endangered their lives during such times and exerted strenuous efforts to nullify such edicts. When they succeeded, they celebrated by declaring a holiday. Throughout most of history, Jews never doubted their obligation to observe circumcision... [those who attempted to reverse it or failed to perform the ritual were called] voiders of the covenant of Abraham our father, and they have no portion in the World to Come.
 <a href="978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8" target="_blank">978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8</a> <a href="#fnref:219" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:220">For sources, see:
Livingston M (2021). Dreamworld or Dystopia: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-108-75726-3. In Jewish history, the banning of circumcision (brit mila) has historically been a first step toward more extreme and violent forms of persecution.
Wilson R (2018). The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-41760-0. Jews have a long history of suffering punishment at the hands of government authorities for engaging in circumcision. Muslims have also experienced suppression of their identities through suppression of this religious practice.
Miller GP (Spring 2002). "Circumcision: Cultural-Legal Analysis". Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 9: 497–585. doi:10.2139/ssrn.201057. SSRN 201057. Ritual circumcision of boys is a durable tradition. Jews of ancient times refused to abandon the practice despite enormous pressure to do so. In 167 BCE the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, as part of a campaign to Hellenise the Jews, condemned to death every Hebrew who allowed a son to be circumcised. The Jews responded with the Maccabean revolt, a campaign of guerrilla warfare which resulted in major victories for the rebels and, eventually, a peace treaty which restored Jewish ritual prerogatives.
Silverman E (2006). "Circumcision, Anti-Semitism, and Christ's Foreskin". From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7425-1669-4. Ancient [Greek and Roman] authors praised Jewish wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. Still, they always denounced circumcision. The anonymous authors of Historiae Augustae, writing in the late fourth century, ttributed a Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135, called the Bar Kokhba rebellion, to a ban on circumcision enacted by the emperor Hadrian... The prohibition was part of a broad campaign to "civilize" ethnic groups...
Rosner F (2003). Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. Feldheim Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-58330-592-8. Several eras in subsequent Jewish history were associated with forced conversions and with prohibitions against ritual circumcision... Jews endangered their lives during such times and exerted strenuous efforts to nullify such edicts. When they succeeded, they celebrated by declaring a holiday. Throughout most of history, Jews never doubted their obligation to observe circumcision... [those who attempted to reverse it or failed to perform the ritual were called] voiders of the covenant of Abraham our father, and they have no portion in the World to Come.
 <a href="978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8" target="_blank">978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8</a> <a href="#fnref:220" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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Wilson R (2018). The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-41760-0. Jews have a long history of suffering punishment at the hands of government authorities for engaging in circumcision. Muslims have also experienced suppression of their identities through suppression of this religious practice.
Miller GP (Spring 2002). "Circumcision: Cultural-Legal Analysis". Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 9: 497–585. doi:10.2139/ssrn.201057. SSRN 201057. Ritual circumcision of boys is a durable tradition. Jews of ancient times refused to abandon the practice despite enormous pressure to do so. In 167 BCE the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, as part of a campaign to Hellenise the Jews, condemned to death every Hebrew who allowed a son to be circumcised. The Jews responded with the Maccabean revolt, a campaign of guerrilla warfare which resulted in major victories for the rebels and, eventually, a peace treaty which restored Jewish ritual prerogatives.
Silverman E (2006). "Circumcision, Anti-Semitism, and Christ's Foreskin". From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7425-1669-4. Ancient [Greek and Roman] authors praised Jewish wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. Still, they always denounced circumcision. The anonymous authors of Historiae Augustae, writing in the late fourth century, ttributed a Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135, called the Bar Kokhba rebellion, to a ban on circumcision enacted by the emperor Hadrian... The prohibition was part of a broad campaign to "civilize" ethnic groups...
Rosner F (2003). Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. Feldheim Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-58330-592-8. Several eras in subsequent Jewish history were associated with forced conversions and with prohibitions against ritual circumcision... Jews endangered their lives during such times and exerted strenuous efforts to nullify such edicts. When they succeeded, they celebrated by declaring a holiday. Throughout most of history, Jews never doubted their obligation to observe circumcision... [those who attempted to reverse it or failed to perform the ritual were called] voiders of the covenant of Abraham our father, and they have no portion in the World to Come.
 <a href="978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8" target="_blank">978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8</a> <a href="#fnref:221" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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Wilson R (2018). The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-41760-0. Jews have a long history of suffering punishment at the hands of government authorities for engaging in circumcision. Muslims have also experienced suppression of their identities through suppression of this religious practice.
Miller GP (Spring 2002). "Circumcision: Cultural-Legal Analysis". Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 9: 497–585. doi:10.2139/ssrn.201057. SSRN 201057. Ritual circumcision of boys is a durable tradition. Jews of ancient times refused to abandon the practice despite enormous pressure to do so. In 167 BCE the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, as part of a campaign to Hellenise the Jews, condemned to death every Hebrew who allowed a son to be circumcised. The Jews responded with the Maccabean revolt, a campaign of guerrilla warfare which resulted in major victories for the rebels and, eventually, a peace treaty which restored Jewish ritual prerogatives.
Silverman E (2006). "Circumcision, Anti-Semitism, and Christ's Foreskin". From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7425-1669-4. Ancient [Greek and Roman] authors praised Jewish wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. Still, they always denounced circumcision. The anonymous authors of Historiae Augustae, writing in the late fourth century, ttributed a Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135, called the Bar Kokhba rebellion, to a ban on circumcision enacted by the emperor Hadrian... The prohibition was part of a broad campaign to "civilize" ethnic groups...
Rosner F (2003). Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. Feldheim Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-58330-592-8. Several eras in subsequent Jewish history were associated with forced conversions and with prohibitions against ritual circumcision... Jews endangered their lives during such times and exerted strenuous efforts to nullify such edicts. When they succeeded, they celebrated by declaring a holiday. Throughout most of history, Jews never doubted their obligation to observe circumcision... [those who attempted to reverse it or failed to perform the ritual were called] voiders of the covenant of Abraham our father, and they have no portion in the World to Come.
 <a href="978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8" target="_blank">978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8</a> <a href="#fnref:222" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:223">For sources, see:
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Wilson R (2018). The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-41760-0. Jews have a long history of suffering punishment at the hands of government authorities for engaging in circumcision. Muslims have also experienced suppression of their identities through suppression of this religious practice.
Miller GP (Spring 2002). "Circumcision: Cultural-Legal Analysis". Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 9: 497–585. doi:10.2139/ssrn.201057. SSRN 201057. Ritual circumcision of boys is a durable tradition. Jews of ancient times refused to abandon the practice despite enormous pressure to do so. In 167 BCE the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, as part of a campaign to Hellenise the Jews, condemned to death every Hebrew who allowed a son to be circumcised. The Jews responded with the Maccabean revolt, a campaign of guerrilla warfare which resulted in major victories for the rebels and, eventually, a peace treaty which restored Jewish ritual prerogatives.
Silverman E (2006). "Circumcision, Anti-Semitism, and Christ's Foreskin". From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7425-1669-4. Ancient [Greek and Roman] authors praised Jewish wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. Still, they always denounced circumcision. The anonymous authors of Historiae Augustae, writing in the late fourth century, ttributed a Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135, called the Bar Kokhba rebellion, to a ban on circumcision enacted by the emperor Hadrian... The prohibition was part of a broad campaign to "civilize" ethnic groups...
Rosner F (2003). Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. Feldheim Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-58330-592-8. Several eras in subsequent Jewish history were associated with forced conversions and with prohibitions against ritual circumcision... Jews endangered their lives during such times and exerted strenuous efforts to nullify such edicts. When they succeeded, they celebrated by declaring a holiday. Throughout most of history, Jews never doubted their obligation to observe circumcision... [those who attempted to reverse it or failed to perform the ritual were called] voiders of the covenant of Abraham our father, and they have no portion in the World to Come.
 <a href="978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8" target="_blank">978-1-108-75726-3978-1-108-41760-0978-0-7425-1669-4978-1-58330-592-8</a> <a href="#fnref:223" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:224">For sources, see:
Livingston M (2021). Dreamworld or Dystopia: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-108-75726-3. In Jewish history, the banning of circumcision (brit mila) has historically been a first step toward more extreme and violent forms of persecution.
Wilson R (2018). The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-41760-0. Jews have a long history of suffering punishment at the hands of government authorities for engaging in circumcision. Muslims have also experienced suppression of their identities through suppression of this religious practice.
Miller GP (Spring 2002). "Circumcision: Cultural-Legal Analysis". Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 9: 497–585. doi:10.2139/ssrn.201057. SSRN 201057. Ritual circumcision of boys is a durable tradition. Jews of ancient times refused to abandon the practice despite enormous pressure to do so. In 167 BCE the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, as part of a campaign to Hellenise the Jews, condemned to death every Hebrew who allowed a son to be circumcised. The Jews responded with the Maccabean revolt, a campaign of guerrilla warfare which resulted in major victories for the rebels and, eventually, a peace treaty which restored Jewish ritual prerogatives.
Silverman E (2006). "Circumcision, Anti-Semitism, and Christ's Foreskin". From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7425-1669-4. Ancient [Greek and Roman] authors praised Jewish wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. Still, they always denounced circumcision. The anonymous authors of Historiae Augustae, writing in the late fourth century, ttributed a Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135, called the Bar Kokhba rebellion, to a ban on circumcision enacted by the emperor Hadrian... The prohibition was part of a broad campaign to "civilize" ethnic groups...
Rosner F (2003). Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. Feldheim Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-58330-592-8. Several eras in subsequent Jewish history were associated with forced conversions and with prohibitions against ritual circumcision... Jews endangered their lives during such times and exerted strenuous efforts to nullify such edicts. When they succeeded, they celebrated by declaring a holiday. Throughout most of history, Jews never doubted their obligation to observe circumcision... [those who attempted to reverse it or failed to perform the ritual were called] voiders of the covenant of Abraham our father, and they have no portion in the World to Come.
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Livingston M (2021). Dreamworld or Dystopia: The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-108-75726-3. In Jewish history, the banning of circumcision (brit mila) has historically been a first step toward more extreme and violent forms of persecution.
Wilson R (2018). The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-108-41760-0. Jews have a long history of suffering punishment at the hands of government authorities for engaging in circumcision. Muslims have also experienced suppression of their identities through suppression of this religious practice.
Miller GP (Spring 2002). "Circumcision: Cultural-Legal Analysis". Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. 9: 497–585. doi:10.2139/ssrn.201057. SSRN 201057. Ritual circumcision of boys is a durable tradition. Jews of ancient times refused to abandon the practice despite enormous pressure to do so. In 167 BCE the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, as part of a campaign to Hellenise the Jews, condemned to death every Hebrew who allowed a son to be circumcised. The Jews responded with the Maccabean revolt, a campaign of guerrilla warfare which resulted in major victories for the rebels and, eventually, a peace treaty which restored Jewish ritual prerogatives.
Silverman E (2006). "Circumcision, Anti-Semitism, and Christ's Foreskin". From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-7425-1669-4. Ancient [Greek and Roman] authors praised Jewish wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. Still, they always denounced circumcision. The anonymous authors of Historiae Augustae, writing in the late fourth century, ttributed a Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135, called the Bar Kokhba rebellion, to a ban on circumcision enacted by the emperor Hadrian... The prohibition was part of a broad campaign to "civilize" ethnic groups...
Rosner F (2003). Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics. Feldheim Publishers. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-58330-592-8. Several eras in subsequent Jewish history were associated with forced conversions and with prohibitions against ritual circumcision... Jews endangered their lives during such times and exerted strenuous efforts to nullify such edicts. When they succeeded, they celebrated by declaring a holiday. Throughout most of history, Jews never doubted their obligation to observe circumcision... [those who attempted to reverse it or failed to perform the ritual were called] voiders of the covenant of Abraham our father, and they have no portion in the World to Come.
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<li id="fn:226">Hirsch EG, Kohler K, Jacobs J, Friedenwald A, Broydé I (1906). "Circumcision". Jewish Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 4 August 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2018. In order to prevent the obliteration of the 'seal of the covenant' on the flesh, as circumcision was henceforth called, the Rabbis, probably after the war of Bar Kokba (see Yeb. l.c.; Gen. R. xlvi.), instituted the 'peri'ah' (the laying bare of the glans), without which circumcision was declared to be of no value (Shab. xxx. 6). <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4391-circumcision" target="_blank">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4391-circumcision</a> <a href="#fnref:226" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:227">Gollaher D (February 2001). "Chapter 1: The Jewish Tradition". Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery. Basic Books. pp. 1–30. ISBN 978-0-465-02653-1. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. <a href="978-0-465-02653-1" target="_blank">978-0-465-02653-1</a> <a href="#fnref:227" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:228">Skolnik F, Berenbaum M, eds. (2006). "Circumcision". Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). USA: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-865928-2. <a href="978-0-02-865928-2" target="_blank">978-0-02-865928-2</a> <a href="#fnref:228" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:229">Jacobs A (2012). Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference. United States: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0651-7. <a href="978-0-8122-0651-7" target="_blank">978-0-8122-0651-7</a> <a href="#fnref:229" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:230">Bolnick D, Koyle M, Yosha A (2012). "Circumcision in the Early Christian Church: The Controversy That Shaped a Continent". Surgical Guide to Circumcision. United Kingdom: Springer. pp. 290–298. ISBN 978-1-4471-2858-8. In summary, circumcision has played a surprisingly important role in Western history. The circumcision debate forged a Gentile identity to the early Christian church which allowed it to survive the Jewish Diaspora and become the dominant religion of Western Europe. Circumcision continued to have a major cultural presence throughout Christendom even after the practice had all but vanished.... the circumcision of Jesus... celebrated as a religious holiday... [has been] examined by many of the greatest scholars and artists of the Western tradition. <a href="978-1-4471-2858-8" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2858-8</a> <a href="#fnref:230" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:231">Bolnick D, Koyle M, Yosha A (2012). "Circumcision in the Early Christian Church: The Controversy That Shaped a Continent". Surgical Guide to Circumcision. United Kingdom: Springer. pp. 290–298. ISBN 978-1-4471-2858-8. In summary, circumcision has played a surprisingly important role in Western history. The circumcision debate forged a Gentile identity to the early Christian church which allowed it to survive the Jewish Diaspora and become the dominant religion of Western Europe. Circumcision continued to have a major cultural presence throughout Christendom even after the practice had all but vanished.... the circumcision of Jesus... celebrated as a religious holiday... [has been] examined by many of the greatest scholars and artists of the Western tradition. <a href="978-1-4471-2858-8" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2858-8</a> <a href="#fnref:231" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:235">Doyle D (October 2005). "Ritual male circumcision: a brief history" (PDF). The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 35 (3): 279–285. doi:10.1177/1478271520053503005. PMID 16402509. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023. <a href="https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:235" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:236">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:236" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:238">Doyle D (October 2005). "Ritual male circumcision: a brief history" (PDF). The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 35 (3): 279–285. doi:10.1177/1478271520053503005. PMID 16402509. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023. <a href="https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:238" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:240">Alanis MC, Lucidi RS (May 2004). "Neonatal circumcision: a review of the world's oldest and most controversial operation". Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 59 (5): 379–395. doi:10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026. PMID 15097799. S2CID 25226185.Gressgård R (2012). Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts. Berghahn Books. pp. 7, 94. ISBN 978-0-85745-648-9. <a href="978-0-85745-648-9" target="_blank">978-0-85745-648-9</a> <a href="#fnref:240" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:241">Doyle D (October 2005). "Ritual male circumcision: a brief history" (PDF). The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 35 (3): 279–285. doi:10.1177/1478271520053503005. PMID 16402509. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2023. <a href="https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/doyle_circumcision.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:241" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:245">Darby R (2005). A surgical temptation: the demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 262–. ISBN 978-0-226-13645-5. <a href="978-0-226-13645-5" target="_blank">978-0-226-13645-5</a> <a href="#fnref:245" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:247">Chubak B (1 April 2013). "1101 the orthopedic origin of popular male circumcision in america". Journal of Urology. 189 (4S): e451. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2013.02.693. Male circumcision was first popularized in late 19th-century America by Lewis Sayre, a renowned orthopedic surgeon, public-health activist, and creator of the Journal of the American Medical Association. On the basis of a few orthopedic case reports, Sayre used his influence to promote male circumcision as systemic therapy, rather than a local anatomic alteration. This redefinition was consistent with the contemporary reflex neurosis theory of disease, as well as the historic humoral-mechanical understanding of the human body. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:247" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:249">Chubak B (1 April 2013). "1101 the orthopedic origin of popular male circumcision in america". Journal of Urology. 189 (4S): e451. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2013.02.693. Male circumcision was first popularized in late 19th-century America by Lewis Sayre, a renowned orthopedic surgeon, public-health activist, and creator of the Journal of the American Medical Association. On the basis of a few orthopedic case reports, Sayre used his influence to promote male circumcision as systemic therapy, rather than a local anatomic alteration. This redefinition was consistent with the contemporary reflex neurosis theory of disease, as well as the historic humoral-mechanical understanding of the human body. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:249" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:253">Al-Salem A (2016). An Illustrated Guide to Pediatric Urology. Springer Publishing. p. 481. ISBN 978-3-319-44182-5.Zirkumzision nach Dieffenbach. Archived 2 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine (vgl. Schumpelick u. a., S. 434 ff.) <a href="978-3-319-44182-5" target="_blank">978-3-319-44182-5</a> <a href="#fnref:253" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:254">Gollaher D (February 2001). "Chapter 4: From Ritual to Science". Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery. Basic Books. pp. 73–108. ISBN 978-0-465-02653-1. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. <a href="978-0-465-02653-1" target="_blank">978-0-465-02653-1</a> <a href="#fnref:254" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:255">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:255" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:256">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:256" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:257">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:257" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:258">Alanis MC, Lucidi RS (May 2004). "Neonatal circumcision: a review of the world's oldest and most controversial operation". Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 59 (5): 379–395. doi:10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026. PMID 15097799. S2CID 25226185.Gressgård R (2012). Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts. Berghahn Books. pp. 7, 94. ISBN 978-0-85745-648-9. <a href="978-0-85745-648-9" target="_blank">978-0-85745-648-9</a> <a href="#fnref:258" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:260">Alanis MC, Lucidi RS (May 2004). "Neonatal circumcision: a review of the world's oldest and most controversial operation". Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 59 (5): 379–395. doi:10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026. PMID 15097799. S2CID 25226185.Gressgård R (2012). Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts. Berghahn Books. pp. 7, 94. ISBN 978-0-85745-648-9. <a href="978-0-85745-648-9" target="_blank">978-0-85745-648-9</a> <a href="#fnref:260" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:261">Alanis MC, Lucidi RS (May 2004). "Neonatal circumcision: a review of the world's oldest and most controversial operation". Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 59 (5): 379–395. doi:10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026. PMID 15097799. S2CID 25226185.Gressgård R (2012). Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts. Berghahn Books. pp. 7, 94. ISBN 978-0-85745-648-9. <a href="978-0-85745-648-9" target="_blank">978-0-85745-648-9</a> <a href="#fnref:261" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:313">Stearns PN (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-19-517632-2. Uniformly practiced by Jews, Muslims, and the members of Coptic, Ethiopian, and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, male circumcision remains prevalent in many regions of the world, particularly Africa, South and East Asia, Oceania, and Anglosphere countries. <a href="978-0-19-517632-2" target="_blank">978-0-19-517632-2</a> <a href="#fnref:313" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:314">Pitts-Taylor V (2008). Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 394. ISBN 978-1-56720-691-3. For most part, Christianity does not require circumcision of its followers. Yet, some Orthodox and African Christian groups do require circumcision. These circumcisions take place at any point between birth and puberty. <a href="978-1-56720-691-3" target="_blank">978-1-56720-691-3</a> <a href="#fnref:314" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:315">Stearns PN (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-19-517632-2. Uniformly practiced by Jews, Muslims, and the members of Coptic, Ethiopian, and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, male circumcision remains prevalent in many regions of the world, particularly Africa, South and East Asia, Oceania, and Anglosphere countries. <a href="978-0-19-517632-2" target="_blank">978-0-19-517632-2</a> <a href="#fnref:315" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:316">Sharkey HJ (2015). American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Princeton University Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-691-16810-4. <a href="978-0-691-16810-4" target="_blank">978-0-691-16810-4</a> <a href="#fnref:316" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:317">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:317" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:321">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:321" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:322">DeMello M (2007). Encyclopedia of Body Adornment. ABC-Clio. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-313-33695-9. Coptic Christians, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Eritrean Orthodox churches on the other hand, do observe the ordainment, and circumcise their sons anywhere from the first week of life to the first few years. <a href="978-0-313-33695-9" target="_blank">978-0-313-33695-9</a> <a href="#fnref:322" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:323">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:323" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:324">Gruenbaum E (2015). The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8122-9251-0. Christian theology generally interprets male circumcision to be an Old Testament rule that is no longer an obligation ... though in many countries (especially the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa, but not so much in Europe) it is widely practiced among Christians <a href="978-0-8122-9251-0" target="_blank">978-0-8122-9251-0</a> <a href="#fnref:324" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:326">Wylie KR (2015). ABC of Sexual Health. John Wiley & Sons. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-118-66569-5. Although it is mostly common and required in male newborns with Moslem or Jewish backgrounds, certain Christian-dominant countries such as the United States also practice it commonly. <a href="978-1-118-66569-5" target="_blank">978-1-118-66569-5</a> <a href="#fnref:326" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:330">Sharkey HJ (2017). A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-521-76937-2. On the Coptic Christian practice of male circumcision in Egypt, and on its practice by other Christians in western Asia. <a href="978-0-521-76937-2" target="_blank">978-0-521-76937-2</a> <a href="#fnref:330" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:364">"Tuli a rite of passage for Filipino boys". 6 May 2011. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015. <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/219779/news/nation/tuli-a-rite-of-passage-for-filipino-boys" target="_blank">http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/219779/news/nation/tuli-a-rite-of-passage-for-filipino-boys</a> <a href="#fnref:364" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:365">"Tuli a rite of passage for Filipino boys". 6 May 2011. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015. <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/219779/news/nation/tuli-a-rite-of-passage-for-filipino-boys" target="_blank">http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/219779/news/nation/tuli-a-rite-of-passage-for-filipino-boys</a> <a href="#fnref:365" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:366">The most commonly-done procedure is in actuality not a circumcision but a dorsal slit, where no foreskin is actually removed. When the foreskin is removed, it is commonly known locally as a "German cut" in reference to the introduction of the modern surgical technique by the founder of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach.[186] <a href="/wiki/Dorsal_slit" target="_blank">/wiki/Dorsal_slit</a> <a href="#fnref:366" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:367">"'Circumcision season': Philippine rite puts boys under pressure". Channel News Asia. Agence France-Presse. 19 June 2019. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190620140705/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/-circumcision-season---philippine-rite-puts-boys-under-pressure--11640442" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20190620140705/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/-circumcision-season---philippine-rite-puts-boys-under-pressure--11640442</a> <a href="#fnref:367" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:368">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:368" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:369">Cohen-Almagor R (9 November 2020). "Should liberal government regulate male circumcision performed in the name of Jewish tradition?". SN Social Sciences. 1 (1): 8. doi:10.1007/s43545-020-00011-7. ISSN 2662-9283. S2CID 228911544. Protagonists and critics of male circumcision agree on some things and disagree on many others... They also do not underestimate the importance of male circumcision for the relevant communities.... Even the most critical voices of male circumcision do not suggest putting a blanket ban on the practice as they understand that such a ban, very much like the 1920–1933 prohibition laws in the United States, would not be effective... Protagonists and critics of male circumcision debate whether the practice is morally acceptable... They assign different weights to harm as well as to medical risks and to non-medical benefits. The different weights to risks and benefits conform to their underlying views about the practices... Protagonists and critics disagree about the significance of medical reasons for circumcision... <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7</a> <a href="#fnref:369" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:370">"Circumcision of Infant Males" (PDF). The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. September 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2013. <a href="https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:370" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:371">"Circumcision remains legal in Germany". Deutsche Welle. 12 December 2012. Archived from the original on 26 October 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013. <a href="http://www.dw.de/circumcision-remains-legal-in-germany/a-16399336" target="_blank">http://www.dw.de/circumcision-remains-legal-in-germany/a-16399336</a> <a href="#fnref:371" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:372">Weiss H, Polonsky J, Bailey R, Hankins C, Halperin D, Schmid G (2007). Male circumcision: global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety, and acceptability (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-159616-9. OCLC 425961131. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 December 2015.Brenton RB (2013). The Sunni-Shi'a Divide: Islam's Internal Divisions and Their Global Consequences. Potomac Books, Inc. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-61234-523-9. There are many references to the Druze refusal to observe this common Muslim practice, one of the earliest being the rediscoverer of the ruins of Petra, John Burckhardt. "The Druses do not circumcise their children <a href="978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9" target="_blank">978-92-4-159616-9978-1-61234-523-9</a> <a href="#fnref:372" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:373">"Circumcision of Infant Males" (PDF). The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. September 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2013. <a href="https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:373" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:374">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:374" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:375">Basaran O (2023). Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey. University of Texas Press. pp. 156–157. ISBN 978-1-4773-2702-9. Regardless of their ethical stances, scholars of both camps tend to agree that a blanket criminalization of male circumcision would be unhelpful and harmful to boys... <a href="978-1-4773-2702-9" target="_blank">978-1-4773-2702-9</a> <a href="#fnref:375" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:376">Cohen-Almagor R (9 November 2020). "Should liberal government regulate male circumcision performed in the name of Jewish tradition?". SN Social Sciences. 1 (1): 8. doi:10.1007/s43545-020-00011-7. ISSN 2662-9283. S2CID 228911544. Protagonists and critics of male circumcision agree on some things and disagree on many others... They also do not underestimate the importance of male circumcision for the relevant communities.... Even the most critical voices of male circumcision do not suggest putting a blanket ban on the practice as they understand that such a ban, very much like the 1920–1933 prohibition laws in the United States, would not be effective... Protagonists and critics of male circumcision debate whether the practice is morally acceptable... They assign different weights to harm as well as to medical risks and to non-medical benefits. The different weights to risks and benefits conform to their underlying views about the practices... Protagonists and critics disagree about the significance of medical reasons for circumcision... <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7</a> <a href="#fnref:376" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:377">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:377" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:378">Cohen-Almagor R (9 November 2020). "Should liberal government regulate male circumcision performed in the name of Jewish tradition?". SN Social Sciences. 1 (1): 8. doi:10.1007/s43545-020-00011-7. ISSN 2662-9283. S2CID 228911544. Protagonists and critics of male circumcision agree on some things and disagree on many others... They also do not underestimate the importance of male circumcision for the relevant communities.... Even the most critical voices of male circumcision do not suggest putting a blanket ban on the practice as they understand that such a ban, very much like the 1920–1933 prohibition laws in the United States, would not be effective... Protagonists and critics of male circumcision debate whether the practice is morally acceptable... They assign different weights to harm as well as to medical risks and to non-medical benefits. The different weights to risks and benefits conform to their underlying views about the practices... Protagonists and critics disagree about the significance of medical reasons for circumcision... <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7</a> <a href="#fnref:378" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:379">"Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors". KNMG Viewpoint. Utrecht, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot bevordering der Geneeskunst (KNMG) (Royal Dutch Society for the Promotion of Medicine). May 2010. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018. <a href="https://www.knmg.nl/advies-richtlijnen/knmg-publicaties/publications-in-english.htm" target="_blank">https://www.knmg.nl/advies-richtlijnen/knmg-publicaties/publications-in-english.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:379" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:380">Basaran O (2023). Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey. University of Texas Press. pp. 156–157. ISBN 978-1-4773-2702-9. Regardless of their ethical stances, scholars of both camps tend to agree that a blanket criminalization of male circumcision would be unhelpful and harmful to boys... <a href="978-1-4773-2702-9" target="_blank">978-1-4773-2702-9</a> <a href="#fnref:380" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:381">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:381" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:382">Cohen-Almagor R (9 November 2020). "Should liberal government regulate male circumcision performed in the name of Jewish tradition?". SN Social Sciences. 1 (1): 8. doi:10.1007/s43545-020-00011-7. ISSN 2662-9283. S2CID 228911544. Protagonists and critics of male circumcision agree on some things and disagree on many others... They also do not underestimate the importance of male circumcision for the relevant communities.... Even the most critical voices of male circumcision do not suggest putting a blanket ban on the practice as they understand that such a ban, very much like the 1920–1933 prohibition laws in the United States, would not be effective... Protagonists and critics of male circumcision debate whether the practice is morally acceptable... They assign different weights to harm as well as to medical risks and to non-medical benefits. The different weights to risks and benefits conform to their underlying views about the practices... Protagonists and critics disagree about the significance of medical reasons for circumcision... <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs43545-020-00011-7</a> <a href="#fnref:382" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:383">Jacobs M, Grady R, Bolnick DA (2012). "Current Circumcision Trends and Guidelines". In Bolnick DA, Koyle M, Yosha A (eds.). Surgical Guide to Circumcision. London: Springer. pp. 3–8, 255–257. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2858-8_1. ISBN 978-1-4471-2857-1. Outside of strategic regions in sub-Saharan Africa, no call for routine circumcision has been made by any established medical organizations or governmental bodies. Positions on circumcision include "some medical benefit/parental choice" in the United States, "no medical benefit/parental choice" in Great Britain, and "no medical benefit/physical and psychological trauma/parental choice" in the Netherlands. <a href="978-1-4471-2857-1" target="_blank">978-1-4471-2857-1</a> <a href="#fnref:383" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:384">"Circumcision of Infant Males" (PDF). The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. September 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2013. <a href="https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:384" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:385">Bruns A, Bu Y, Merkt H (2021). Legal Theory and Interpretation in a Dynamic Society. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 352. ISBN 978-3-7489-2584-2. <a href="978-3-7489-2584-2" target="_blank">978-3-7489-2584-2</a> <a href="#fnref:385" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:386">Alanis MC, Lucidi RS (May 2004). "Neonatal circumcision: a review of the world's oldest and most controversial operation". Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 59 (5): 379–395. doi:10.1097/00006254-200405000-00026. PMID 15097799. S2CID 25226185.Gressgård R (2012). Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts. Berghahn Books. pp. 7, 94. ISBN 978-0-85745-648-9. <a href="978-0-85745-648-9" target="_blank">978-0-85745-648-9</a> <a href="#fnref:386" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:387">Doyle SM, Kahn JG, Hosang N, Carroll PR (January 2010). "The impact of male circumcision on HIV transmission". The Journal of Urology. 183 (1): 21–26. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2009.09.030. PMID 19913816. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:387" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:388">Uthman OA, Popoola TA, Uthman MM, Aremu O (March 2010). Van Baal PH (ed.). "Economic evaluations of adult male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review". PLOS ONE. 5 (3): e9628. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...5.9628U. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009628. PMC 2835757. PMID 20224784. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835757" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835757</a> <a href="#fnref:388" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:392">Kim HH, Li PS, Goldstein M (November 2010). "Male circumcision: Africa and beyond?". Current Opinion in Urology. 20 (6): 515–519. doi:10.1097/MOU.0b013e32833f1b21. PMID 20844437. S2CID 2158164. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:392" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:394">Doyle SM, Kahn JG, Hosang N, Carroll PR (January 2010). "The impact of male circumcision on HIV transmission". The Journal of Urology. 183 (1): 21–26. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2009.09.030. PMID 19913816. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:394" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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<li id="fn:398">American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision (September 2012). "Male circumcision". Pediatrics. 130 (3): e756 – e785. doi:10.1542/peds.2012-1990. PMID 22926175. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1542%2Fpeds.2012-1990" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1542%2Fpeds.2012-1990</a> <a href="#fnref:398" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:399">World Health Organization, UNAIDS, Jhpiego (Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics) (December 2009). "Manual for Male Circumcision Under Local Anaesthesia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2012. ...there are many myths about male circumcision that circulate. For example, some people think that circumcision can cause impotence (failure of erection) or reduce sexual pleasure. Others think that circumcision will cure impotence. Let me assure you that none of these is true. Alt URL Archived 30 March 2023 at the Wayback MachineTobian AA, Kacker S, Quinn TC (2014). "Male circumcision: a globally relevant but under-utilized method for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections". Annual Review of Medicine. 65: 293–306. doi:10.1146/annurev-med-092412-090539. PMC 4539243. PMID 24111891. <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" target="_blank">/wiki/World_Health_Organization</a> <a href="#fnref:399" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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