Thought I'd provide some information
March 1, 1999: After a two year investigation, the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded that the "potential medical benefits" of infant circumcision aren't significant enough and therefore, they do not recommend it as a routine procedure.
American Academy of Pediatrics Circumcision Task Force Monitor page
"There is a less than 1% chance that circumcision will ever be medically necessary. If only one out of a hundred boys will require circumcision later, why then should the remaining 99 be automatically circumcised?"
Mothers Against Circumcision
"The current fallacy being spread to excuse circumcision is that the circumcised penis is cleaner and easier to take care of, therefore reducing the risk of urinary tract infections (UTI)...."
"In infancy that foreskin protects the glans, or head, the penis from feces and abrasive diapers. The foreskin continues to protect the glans throughout a man's life by shielding it from rubbing against clothing and zippers. Many parents also do not realize the diminished sexual sensitivity that they are inflicting on their sons."
Circumcision Paper
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""Circ doesn't always prevent phimosis, but can even cause it:
Phimosis may occur after circumcision if redundant inner prepuce slides back over the glans, with subsequent cicatricial scarring and contraction."
Phimosis, Adult Circumcision, and Buried Penis: eMedicine Urology
"Data have shown that the foreskin is retractable in 90% of boys by age 3 years. Only 1% of boys have physiologic phimosis that persists until age 17 years."
So the medical profession as a majority promotes a very painful operation, circumcision, to 100% of infant boys because 1% might not retract and end up with phimosis?
"The foreskin of an uncircumcised child should not be forcefully retracted. This may result in significant bleeding, as well as glanular excoriation and injury. Consequently, dense fibrous adhesions may form during the healing process, leading to true pathologic phimosis." They, in fact, could cause phimosis as well by not properly handling an infant's penis, therefore it would not have actually occurred if it had been left alone to retract on its own.
The estimated **1% to 3%** (which is great than the incidence of adult phimosis) incidence of complications after newborn circumcision covers only the immediate postoperative period prior to the infant's discharge from the hospital. The reported risks are hemorrhage in 1%, infection - occasionally leading to sepsis - in 0.5%, meat[iti]s and meatal... See More stenosis, u[r]ethrocutaneous fistula, adhesions between the glans and remaining prepuce, secondary phimosis, and cosmetically unsatisfactory results. The rate of subsequent repeat surgery to correct adhesions of the glans, meatal stenosis, fistula, and phimosis with buried penis is unknown, but our practice at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia includes about two such cases per month. While this is not a large percentage of the total number of circumcisions preformed, it is a significant number of children undergoing surgery for the complication of this operation. "
- Schwartz, et al. "Pediatric Primary Care: A Problem-solving Approach" pp 861-862.
(At 1.25 million circumcisions of newborns in the US per year, a 0.5% infection rate amounts to 6000 cases per year, and a 4% overall rate of complications requiring treatment represents 48,000 patients experiencing avoidable morbidity.)
Meatal stenosis is a relatively common acquired condition occurring in 9%-10% of males who are circumcised.
Meatal Stenosis: eMedicine Pediatrics: Surgery
