"There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."
- Committee on Fetus and Newborn. Standards and Recommendations for Hospital Care of Newborn Infants, 5th edition.   more...Evanston, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. (1971). p.110.

"Circumcision is not a medical decision. Preventing an improbably future infection is a spurious indication. The standard of care is antibiotics, not amputation."
- Eileen Marie Wayne, MD, Letters (Nothing to debate on circumcision), American Medical News, (27 July, 1998). P.27.

"My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone."
- Benjamin Spock, MD

"Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity."
- Dean Edell, MD - Radio and Television Medical Advisor

"Circumcision causes pain, trauma, and a permanent loss of protective and erogenous tissue... Removing normal, healthy, functioning tissue for no medical reason has ethical implications: circumcision violates the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 5) and the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 13)."
- Leo Sorger, to American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Stop Circumcisions, Ob Gyn News, (1 Nov., 1994). p.8.  less

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In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics(AAP) reviewed 46 years of research and concluded routine neonatal circumcision is not recommended.

The AAP also currently states: "The uncircumcised penis   more...is easy to keep clean. No special care is required. No attempt should be made to forcefully retract the foreskin [of a child whose foreskin is as yet unretractable]."

The U.S. is the only industrialized country where the majority of male infants are circumcised. Worldwide, only 10-15% of men are circumcised.

Circumcision did not originate as a measure to promote physical hygiene. Instead in the late 1800s, it was introduced into U.S. to discourage boys from masturbating.

Women have a foreskin as well, called the clitoral hood, which covers and protects their clitoris in the same way the foreskin protects the glans(head).

The foreskin is not 'just skin' and is not 'extra' or 'redundant',, in that no other part of the male body does what the foreskin does, or feels what the foreskin feels.

The foreskin serves to protect the glans, thereby maintaining the glans-surface's naturally-intended thinness, texture, and sensitivity.

The foreskin is a natural, retractile, protective covering for the glans of the penis, and is the most erogenous area of the penis in terms of the quantity, concentration, and quality of specialized nerve receptors and stretch receptors that it is endowed with, especially on its inner mucosal lining (which gets redeployed behind the glans during erection).

The average adult foreskin consists of 1½ inches of outer skin, 1½ inches of inner mucosal lining -- totaling a length of 3 inches -- and is 5 inches in circumference when erect. This amounts to a surface area of 15 square inches, or a surface area equivalent to that of a 3" by 5" inch index card!

The foreskin has rich sensations in and of itself. The foreskin also plays a mechanical-lubrication role. It serves as a gliding sheath during masturbation or sexual activity, rendering the quality of the friction between the man and his partner more gentle, less abrasive.  less