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{{SEEALSO}}* [[Tuli]]
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'''Adolescent and adult circumcision''' is rare when compared to the millions upon millions of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcisions of boys that are carried out in Islamic nations, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere.
All circumcisions are injurious because they amputate a [http://www.intactaus.org/information/functionsoftheforeskin/ multi-functional body part], but in some cases the benefit obtained by removing a deformed, diseased, or damaged foreskin may be of more value than the lost [[foreskin]].
== Rite of passage ==
=== Aborigines ===
The indigeous people of [[Australia]], the Aborigines, have variously practiced [[Religion and culture#Australia|subincision]] and [[circumcision]] on adolescents and adults since before the first contact with Europeans.
=== Ulwaluko ===
Every single initiation season the media writes about complications accompanying the ritual of Traditional [[Circumcision]] and Initiation into Manhood ''(ulwaluko)''. The magnitude of these complications is horrific, from 1995 till 2014, 919 boys have lost their lifes in the mountains and hills of the Eastern Cape. Many others were mutilated or even lost their manhood.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Tuli]]
{{LINKS}}
* [http://www.ulwaluko.co.za/Photos.html Photos]
[[Category:Circumcision]]