Involuntary circumcision impacts negatively on psychological well being such as anger, betrayal, low self esteem and sexual shame 
http://www.circinfosite.com/29.html  

Study shows that infants feel and remember circumcision pain 


A study published in the April 2007 issue of the British Journal of Urology, demonstrating that the five most sensitive areas of the penis are on the foreskin, and that the most sensitive area of the circumcised penis is on the circ scar: 
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/pdf/sorrells_2007.pdf  

Adult males with permanent circumcision complications: 
http://www.circumstitions.com/Complic.html  

Effect of neonatal circumcision on penile neurologic sensation. Bleustein CB, Fogarty JD, Eckholdt H, Arezzo JC, Melman A. "In the dysfunctional group, circumcised men (49 +/- 16 years) were significantly younger (P <0.01) than uncircumcised men (56 +/- 13 years)." 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15833526

Flesh Eating Disease, Meningitis, HPV, herpes and others increased with circumcision: 
http://www.infocirc.org/fourn.htm (very graphic) 

http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/scurlock1/  

http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals%2Fijpn%2Fvol5n2%2Fmeningitis.xml  


http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119091442/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0  

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120710265/abstract  

Human papillomavirus and circumcision: a meta-analysis

Circumcision Causing UTIs: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8960080&dopt=AbstractPlus  

http://www.circumstitions.com/Utis.html  

http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/goldman/  

“The parents of a 6-week-old boy who bled to death after a circumcision at Rosebud’s Indian Health Service Hospital last year are suing the government for wrongful death.” 
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090918/UPDATES/90918015/1003/business  

Risks and Complications 
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/complications.html  
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/safety/circumcision.html (clamping methods) 
http://www.infocirc.org/fourn.htm (plastibell) 
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/169/3/216 (plastibell) 

Carcinoma developed in circumcision scars on the penile shaft: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=3944860  

The tumors involved the prepuce (n = 1), prepuce and distal shaft (n = 1), circumcision scar line (n = 2), circumcision scar line and distal shaft: 
http://journals.lww.com/ajsp/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2004&issue=01000&article=00014&  

The American Cancer Society releases a letter opposing the use of Penile Cancer as a reason for routine infant circumcision: 
http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/letters/1996-02_ACS/  

Here is a study that found when babies experienced pain it reduced opioid receptors in their brains which decreased pain sensitivity in adulthood: 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090927130048.htm  

Circumcision and complications with vaginismus 
http://www.vaginismus-awareness-network.org/circumcision.html  

How Male Circumcision May Be Affecting Your Love Life 
http://www.coloradonocirc.org/pamphlets.php  

Sexual side effects 
http://www.boystoo.com/medical/conversion.htm  
http://www.norm.org/lost.html  
http://www.notjustskin.org/  

This site puts together a visual cost/benefit analysis of choosing to amputate the prepuce for UTIs: 
http://www.infocirc.org/uti2.htm  

Circumcision Not Cost Effective 
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb180294.htm  

Breastfeeding/Maternal Bond 
http://www.cirp.org/library/birth/ (links to medical articles and positional papers) 
http://www.birthpsychology.com/birthscene/circ.html  

Exerpts from The Breastfeeding Answer Book www.cirp.org/library/birth/mohrbacher1/ 
Nancy Mohrbacher, Nancy and Stock, Julie. The Breastfeeding Answer Book, (Third Revised Edition). 
La Leche League International, Schaumburg, Illinois, 2003., 

Letters to La Leche League International www.llli.org/llleaderweb/LV/LVOctNov00p94.html 
LLLI: Letters to La Leche League International. Leaven. Vol. 36 no. 5. Ocotber November 2000. pp. 94-95 
 


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