Not only is it not healthier, it's actually damaging.https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/40/5/1367/658163 …
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All of those claims have been repeatedly discredited - hygiene isn't an excuse to cut flesh off of an infant. UTIs & phemosis are preventable in other ways that don't involve cutting off flesh. Circumcision doesn't actually decrease the risk of STDs.
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Human papilloma virus and smegma have been implicated in the aetiology of penile cancer, making it also preventable by means other than circumcision. It also happens to be extremely rare to begin with.
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To advocate routine neonatal genital cutting on the basis of any of those arguments, or even all of them together, is barbaric.
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and i respect your opinion.
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That's all well and good, but it's not an opinion. Infant boys are the only instance in which this kind of hysterical response to the possibility of having to bathe properly is medically promoted.
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