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== National Post Article ==
In a [http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/01/24/barbara-kay-on-circumcision-a-painless-live-saving-surgery/ recent article] in Canada's ''National Post'', Kay describes male circumcision as being "painless," "life-saving" and "taking only 30 seconds" (she shortens this to ten seconds in a live debate with Jackson Doughart<ref name='Adler 2011-02-22'>{{REFweb
|quote=The pain lasts only ten seconds...
|url=http://www.charlesadler.com/2011/01/barbara-kay-and-jackson-doughart-on-circumcision.html
9:41: It is a kind of vaccine against [[HIV]] and [[AIDS]] in women, and reduces it sharply in men, so really, it has become a kind of vaccination.
12:04: I would query the 1 in 50 complications when done by a [[mohel]], who does nothing else (and by the way now many of them are doctors as well as mohels). I don't know what you mean by [[Risks and complications| complications]], if you mean perhaps an inflammation that doesn't go away or something. If we talk about the [[deaths| morbidity ]] rate with circumcisions, it is so trivial when done by experienced circumcisionists. It is so trivial that you would stop having your teeth cleaned if you took those kind of statistics seriously. I am sure that [[Adolescent and adult circumcision | adult circumcision]] have higher complications.
21:33: It seems to me very strange that here we have fantastic proof that you can actually protect your child from future diseases, as one doctor said. It is a vaccine, it is actually a vaccine, as good as a vaccine against [[HIV]].
22:46: With the foreskin you get faster and more frequent ejaculations. Without it, it takes a little longer, but you get more endurance. This is something I am told by the way, this is not something I would know about on my own.
24:03: The foreskin is a [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| trap]] is a trap for bacteria.
27:31: You've got an intervention that does no harm, that does a lot of good, and that has been the staple of two ancient religions for millenia.