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
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