Parents face so many difficult decisions when it comes to having a child: decisions about nursing, sleep patterns, discipline, teaching methods and, in the case of boys, whether or not to circumcise. In addition to being the most common surgery for males in the U.S., circumcision has been practiced in various cultures for centuries. Yet when it comes to the health and best interest of your newborn, is circumcision the way to go?
Professor of Molecular Medical Sciences
Milos, a former nurse, and her fringe group NOCIRC, are doing enormous harm to public health and individual well-being with their lies, deceit, emotive statements, and other hysterical nonsense. The science in support of circumcision is now rock solid. There is no downside to circumcision, apart from having to have a minor, very safe operation, using a local anesthetic. Her claims of harms have all been debunked by good research. Very large studies by credible researchers in the USA and Australia have shown that it is the uncircumcised who suffer greater sexual problems, including erectile dysfunction over the age of 50. Men of any age with phimosis (tight foreskin) experience difficult and painful erections and some cannot have sexual intercourse.
The rate of circumcision is rising in Australia and the USA. The population has enough sense to read and hear about the enormous benefits in the news media and respond, in the best interests of their sons, by having them circumcised - infancy being the most convenient and cheapest time, with best cosmetic outcome.
Circumcision for HIV prevention is now endorsed by the World Health Organization. WHO have estimated the millions of lives saved and net financial benefit, and support a push by many governments and organizations to roll out circumcision in high-risk populations.
The benefit to women from circumcised male partners is now legend - greatly reduced risk of cervical cancer, genital herpes and chlamydia (the latter being a cause of infertility, ectopic pregnancy and pelvic inflammatory disease).
The only psychological problems are in the minds of the members of NOCIRC!
The time if nigh for them to desist and fall into line with the strong scientific messages.
For more about the anti-circ movement see the evidence below.
Brian Morris, PhD DSc
Professor of Molecular Medical Sciences
The University of Sydney
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