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*: Medically not indicated [[Circumcision|circumcision of children]] protects exactly against nothing.

* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against HIV/AIDS.'''

*: "The [[foreskin]] has a number of tasks and functions. The glands which can be found in the inner [[foreskin]], produce a secretion that keeps the [[Glans penis|glans]] soft and supple. The so-called smegma is used to obtain a stable bacterial flora in the genital area of ​​men and to protect them from diseases. It protects against infection, which may also affect the urethra, since its task is the natural hygiene of the [[Glans penis|glans]]."<ref>http://symptomat.de/Penisvorhaut#Funktion_.26_Aufgaben_der_Penisvorhaut</ref>

* '''"A circumcised penis can be cleaned much easier."'''

*: The cleaning of an intact or circumcised penis is equal and is not hampered by an intact foreskin.

*: This argument assumes a flat rate poor hygiene for all intact boys and men and thus constitutes an indirect insult all intact boys and men.

* '''"A circumcised penis looks nicer."'''

*: That is not a valid measure of [[circumcision]] on children. With the same aesthetic argument, for example, Chinese girls feet were fueled in former times, so they could barely walk as adult women because of the deformation of the feet.

* '''"Circumcised men can cum later."'''

*: In fact, many circumcised men have to work much longer for ejaculation, especially with age, because due to the lack of [[foreskin]] their [[Glans penis|glans]] is increasingly callous and unfeeling.

*: Here the attempt to take out the genital mutilation which is practiced worldwide for the most diverse reasons, from the discussion, is doubly insidious: One is pretending as if there were only the religious ritual of a single religious community. On the other hand discussion partners are identified here automatically as unwanted outsiders of communion who had better not to interfere in the intra-Community discussion.

* '''"I want to keep my boy from masturbating."'''

*: Masturbation is something completely natural and part of the right to sexual self-determination. The excessive fight against the natural masturbation was the main motivation for the american doctor and rassist [[John Harvey Kellogg]] to propagate [[circumcision]] all over the United States of America.

*: They who still want to do something legally prohibited, will not be quenched by law at all. Arguing that legal banning would lead to dodging into illegality, should result in a situation where all criminal laws could be abolished.

* '''"Circumcision is required by God."'''

*: This argument is brought by the Jewish communities, with respect to a Bible text where God ordered the Israelic forefather Abraham to have all male descendants circumcised. But in fact it is not a religion-giving, but a religion-confirming ritual act that can therefore be postponed to a later date without any problem.

*: But the ritual was repeatedly questioned in inner-Jewish debates even earlier. [[Walter Otte]] wrote about it in the [[HPD]]: "The combination of medicine and religion refers to the great decade-long intra-Jewish debate of the 19th century, brought in mainly Jewish doctors objection made against the circumcision of boys. In the middle of the 19th century, there were Jewish reform groups, Jewish doctors and rabbis, who entered intense discussions, which dealt with religious but also to health aspects of the Prepuce [[circumcision]] of boys. In debates or reform Rabbi and Jewish doctors (which even claimed the abolition of the [[FGM|Boy circumcision]]), the hospital doctor [[Gideon Brecher]] called the procedure a "bloody operation". The Dessau doctor [[Adolf Arnhold]] presented extensive arguing why [[circumcision]] is outdated as a "binding ritual of the Jews". He was based on religious considerations, called the biblical circumcision formations only of importance for "unbiased believers" and came to the conclusion that the material act of [[circumcision]] had become "a redundant and useless shell of the mentally bare core". [[Philipp Wolferts]] from Lemförde and the Hamburg doctor [[Moritz Gustav Salomon]] emerged with medical arguments, where Salomon came to the conclusion that [[circumcision]] was not religious but merely a political meaning in the 19th century at all."<ref>http://hpd.de/node/14033?nopaging=1</ref>

* '''"Circumcision has been recommended by the Prophet Mohammed."'''

*: This argument is brought by the Muslim communities, with respect to a Hadith of one fellow of the prophet where the male circumcision is required. The Quran itself neither mentions nor requires the [[circumcision]]. Although Ibrahim (Abraham) himself is mentioned in the Quran at least 67 times, his [[circumcision]] is not mentioned there. Instead, many places in the Quran describe that Allah created man "in great shape" <ref>(Quran 95:4)</ref>, "completed" <ref>(Quran 27:88)</ref> and "complete" <ref>(Quran 32:7)</ref>, and "made your bodies perfectly" <ref>(Quran 40:64)</ref>. "No mistake you can see in the Creation of the Most Gracious." <ref>(Quran 67:3)</ref> The [[circumcision]] itself would have to be an insult for Allah.<ref>http://www.quranicpath.com/misconceptions/circumcision.html</ref>

*: Since this is five body treatments that have to do in the broadest sense with hygiene, one can understand even in temporal and spatial context of Islam in the 7th century AD, that [[circumcision]] was mentioned, too. But nowadays, [[circumcision]] is unnecessary for hygienic reasons. Hygiene can be no religious argument, too.

* [http://www.circumstitions.com/Absurd.html Circumsurdities: Absurd claims about circumcision]

* [[Circumcision#Non-medical_indications_for_circumcision|Circumpendium: Non-medical indications for circumcision]]

* [http://reductress.com/post/were-piercing-my-babys-tongue-heres-why/ We’re Piercing My Baby’s Tongue. Here’s Why.]

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