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9/6/2012
Circumcision: The Debate
Cuts Deep
The Pro‐Circumcision Side:
• A boy should look like his father
• 1900: Felt to prevent masturbation.
• Infants boys less susceptible to UTIs
• Virtually precludes penile cancer
• Eliminates foreskin infections (Daah!)
• Uncircumcised men may be more prone to certain
STDs, but that is debatable. Studies only in Africa.
Circumcision: The Debate
Cuts Deep
Anti‐Circumcision Side:
• Consider it an inhuman
act of genital mutilation
• Improved hygiene
standards made foreskin
infections rare
• Numerous nerve endings
in foreskin lost
• Foreskin protects and
lubricates glans
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• Twenty‐five years ago; about 90%
of infant boys were circumcised
• Now, only 57% are circumcised
and the number is rising (so to
speak). CDC estimate: 65%
• Circ rate is 80% in the Midwest;
32% in the West
• More and more Jewish families are
rejecting this ancient ritual.
• There is extreme emotion and
passion on both sides of the issue:
Don’t let it become a “bone of
contention”. Parent decision.
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