re need info on circumcision medical cons and pros in article apr netnews noc drexel edu giamomj duvm ocs drexel edu mike g writes need info on circumcision medical cons and pros in article c yg th cs uiuc edu gunnar blix blix milton cs uiuc edu writes i need information on the medical including emotional pros and cons of circumcision at birth i am especially interested in references to studies that indicate disadvantages or refute studies that indicate advantages a friend who is a medical student is writing a survey paper and apparently the studies she has run into are all for circumcision the main argument being a lower risk of penile cancer please email responses as i am not a frequent reader of either group i will summarize to the net i m very surprised that medical schools still push routine circumcision of newborn males on the population since your friend is not a man she money probably has a lot to do with keeping the practice of routine circumcision alive it s another opporitunity to charge a few hundred extra bucks for a completely unnecessary procedure the rationale for which until recently has been accepted without question by most parents of newborns one could also imagine that complications arising from circumcision infections sloppy jobs etc are far more common than the remote chance of penile cancer it is purported to prevent can t imagine what it s like to have a penis much less a foreskin i guess if american medicine did an artistic job of circumcising every male then the visual result would be somewhat more natural in appearance the penile cancer thing has been completely debunked she must be going to school on a south pacific island tell her to check the journal or urology for circumcision articles i remember at least on an old jewish man cut at birth who developed penile cancer i mean if the cancer risk was that great the europe who have been circumcising like crazy too teaching a boy how to keep his cockhead clean is the issue a little proper hygiene goes a long way americans are just too hung up on the penis to consider cleaning it that s just way too much like mastubation so you have surgical intervention that is basically unnecessary peter schlumpf university of illinois at urbana champaign
