Male circumcision is among the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States, although it is less common in other parts of the world

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Male circumcision is among the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States, although it is less common in other parts of the world. The procedure is performed for a variety of reasons including religious practices, hygiene beliefs and health beliefs. For a number of reasons rates are down in the United States from previous decades

Apart from being painful (at least until recently), for such a common procedure little thought is given to it by many parents of male infants. What are your thoughts? Here are a couple of websites to get the conversation going in this discussion post topic (although feel free to find other sources)

http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/Newborn-Male-Circumcision.aspx

http://www.cps.ca/en/documents/position/circumcision

http://nocirc.org/

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Reference

Crooks, R. and Baur, K. (2014) Our Sexuality (13th Edition). Cengage Learning: Boston, MA

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