3.75/5 (4) Male circumcision rates in Utah decline as parents reconsider the procedure By Allison Oligschlaeger Spenst Hansen knows better than to take his body for granted. Born in the midst of his parents’ divorce, the 24-year-old Salt Laker was, of … Read More
August 13, 2015 The Norwegian medical community’s strong opposition to circumcision of baby boys has kept Norway’s state-funded hospitals from offering the controversial operations under a new law allowing them. The government expected demand for around 2,000 circumcisions a year in Norway, but newspaper Dagsavisenreports that … Read More
5/5 (2) June 3, 2015 By Lucian Vâlsan There is a silent revolution going on in the world and only in recent years have we started to hear about it. Although there’s still a long way to go, the reality … Read More
5/5 (3) Ten Reasons Not To Circumcise Intact America Also available at http://www.intactamerica.org/resources/decision DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT TO CIRCUMCISE YOUR SON? Circumcision is a painful, risky, unethical surgery that deprives over a million boys each year of healthy, functional tissue, while … Read More
[Note: this article ignores that most of the rest of the civilized world does not practice circumcision. The author seems unaware of this fact and instead lumps anti-circumcision parents together with anti-vaccination parents, apparently intending to demean both together. However, … Read More
Young Americans less supportive of circumcision at birth Peter Moore YouGov, Feb. 3, 2015 Also available on the YouGov website Few circumcised men wish that they hadn’t been circumcised, but younger Americans aren’t convinced that the procedure should be routine … Read More
Why The Benefits of Circumcision Are Based On False Assumptions, Erroneous Conclusions and Misleading Medical Information by April McCarthy The current generation of infant males will have the lowest routine circumcision rates in 40 years. Recent surveys suggest that parents who say … Read More
5/5 (1) About the Author Sam Carnes RT(T) CMD is an intact man who is a medical professional and an intactivist. After finishing active duty military time in 2006, he went to IUPUI and received a Bachelor of Science in … Read More
2/5 (1) Full text in PDF format (above) Abstract This report provides estimates of male newborn circumcisions performed during the birth hospitalization. Using data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), annual rates of newborn circumcision are presented for 1979–2010. … Read More
Also available at http://www.cirp.org/library/statistics/USA/ United States Circumcision Incidence Circumcision Incidence 2007-2009 The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new statistics at the International AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna, Austria, that were obtained from SDI Health, … Read More