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- The Birth Scene - Circumcision: The Cruelest Cut - Articles and book excerpts: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom - Circumcision: The Root of Misogyny - The Selling of Circumcision - Circumcision: Echoes in the Body
- Circumcision - The Worldwide News - Circumcision was an essential part of religious practice for the nation of Israel. Is circumcision a required practice for Christians today? This paper examines the biblical evidence and explores the validity of arguments concerning old covenant customs.
- Circumcision Resource Center - A nonprofit educational organization with the purpose of informing the public and professionals about the practice of circumcision.
- BabyCenter: Circumcision - Find out what circumcision involves, what the health benefits and risks are, and other things to consider when you're deciding whether to have it done.
- FDA: Potential for Injury from Circumcision Clamps - U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning about circumcision clamps.
- Medicinenet: Circumcision The Surgical Procedure - Facts outlining the surgery, contraindications, pain, and complications.
- Circumcision: A Lifetime of Medical Benefits - Information about scientific evidence that circumcision helps prevent infant kidney infections, HIV, penile cancer, and local disorders.
- The Gomco Circumcision: Common Problems and Solutions - Article about the device used to perform neonatal circumcision. Includes sketches of the operation and instrument.
- Royal College of Surgeons of England: Statement on Male Circumcision - Includes natural history, indications, and criteria.
- American Medical Association: Report 10 (Neonatal Circumcision) - AMA policy statement on circumcision, December 1999.
Wikipedia Articles
- Circumcision advocacy - Circumcision advocacy refers to those who advocate circumcision and their activities in support of this cause. In scholarly sources it is used in an article by Hodges, Svoboda and Van Howe in the Journal of Medical Ethics and also in the title of Tyranny of the victims: An analysis of circumcision advocacy.
- Bioethics of neonatal circumcision - The bioethics of neonatal circumcision are sometimes controversial within practicing cultures. Male circumcision involves the excision of genital tissue from the human body.
- Prevalence of circumcision - The prevalence of circumcision (or circumcision rate) refers to the proportion of males that are circumcisised in a given population. It may also refer to the proportion of newborn males that are circumcised.
- History of male circumcision - It has been variously proposed that male circumcision began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy's entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility, as a means of suppressing (or enhancing) sexual pleasure, as an aid to hygiene where regular bathing was impractical, as a means ... behaviors, to remove "excess" pleasure, to increase a man's attractiveness to women, as a symbolic castration, as a demonstration of one's ability to endure pain, or as a male counterpart to menstruation or the breaking of the hymen. It has been suggested that the custom of circumcision gave advantages to tribes that practiced it and thus led to its spread regardless of whether the people understood this.
- Circumcision scar - In males, the circumcision scar refers to the scar after a male circumcision has healed. In some cases, the scar can be darker-colored, and it will encircle the shaft of the penis.