The Truth About Circumcision

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Stefan Molyneux breaks down the truth behind circumcision, including details on the procedure, it's history, rate of occurrence, claimed medical justifications, relation to masturbation, negative consequences and it's morality.

Circumcision Rates Vary Widely in U.S.

http://forward.com/articles/161642/circumcision-rates-vary-widely-in-us/?p=all#ixzz2bVibVSx5

Circumcisions Performed in U.S. Community Hospitals, 2009

http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb126.jsp

Gollaher, David L. Circumcision: A History of the World’s Most Controversial Surgery. New York: Basic Books, 2001. 1-30.

http://www.d.umn.edu/~mcco0322/index.htm

Breast Cancer Risk in American Women

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/probability-breast-cancer

Male circumcision for HIV prevention

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/

Why Circumcision Lowers Risk of HIV

Uganda: Circumcision Not HIV Foolproof - Rugunda

http://allafrica.com/stories/201308071633.html

Circumcision and HIV: Harm Outweighs "Benefit"

http://www.circumcision.org/hiv.htm

Obstacles Slow an Easy Way to Prevent H.I.V. in Men

Condom effectiveness in reducing heterosexual HIV transmission (Review)

http://apps.who.int/rhl/reviews/langs/CD003255.pdf

If Circumcision Rates Keep Falling, Health Costs and Infections Will Spike

Effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277953696002584?via=sd&cc=y

Circumcision, the ultimate parenting dilemma

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19072761

To cut or not to cut? Personal factors influence primary care physicians’ position on elective newborn circumcision

http://www.jmhjournal.org/article/S1875-6867(10)00050-3/abstract

Complication rate after circumcision in a paediatric surgical setting should not be neglected.

http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/23905566/Complication_rate_after_circumcision_in_a_paediatric_surgical_setting_should_not_be_neglected_

Incidence of asymptomatic meatal stenosis in children following neonatal circumcision.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20851685

Incidence of meatal stenosis following neonatal circumcision in a primary care setting.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16429216

Alexithymia and Circumcision Trauma: A Preliminary Investigation

http://www.readperiodicals.com/201107/2478941811.html

Prevalence and correlates of premature ejaculation in a primary care setting: a preliminary cross-sectional study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21492404

Male circumcision decreases penile sensitivity as measured in a large cohort.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23374102?dopt=Abstract

Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17378847

Comparison of ring block, dorsal penile nerve block, and topical anesthesia for neonatal circumcision: a randomized controlled trial.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9417009

Circumcision Practice Patterns in the United States

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/101/6/e5.full

German court defines circumcision of children as bodily injury

http://www.nationalturk.com/en/german-court-defines-circumcision-of-children-as-bodily-injury-20406

The Global Prevalence of Male Circumcision

http://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/infopack_en_2.pdf

US Birth Data

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm

Two more babies stricken with herpes after ritual ultra-orthodox Jewish oral blood sucking circumcision in New York City

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304793/Two-babies-stricken-HERPES-ritual-oral-blood-sucking-circumcision-New-York-City.html

http://circumcisiondecisionmaker.com/circumcision-facts

http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/