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== Religious Arguments ==

* '''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.

=== Jewish Religion ===

* '''Circumcision has been recommended by the Prophet Mohammed.''' This argument is brought by the Muslim communities, with respect to a Sunna text of the prophet where the male circumcision is required.

* '''"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.

* '''"Only the [[circumcision]] makes a boy a real Jew."'''

*: Refutation: In the Jewish-religious culture, a boy becomes a Jew automatically when he is born by a Jewish mother.

=== Islamic Religion ===

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

*: This argument is brought by the Muslim communities, with respect to a Sunna text of the prophet where the male circumcision is required.

== Trivializing arguments ==

* '''"[[Circumcision]] is similar to removing a patch."'''

*: All published circumcision videos show that those who are circumcised without adequate anaesthetic treatment (anaesthesia or anaesthetic), suffer immense pain. Infants fall regularly in shock as a reaction to the pain, when being circumcised without effective anaestesia.

* '''"Babies feel no pain yet, therefore should be circumcised at an early stage."'''

*: This assertion is completely obsolete and refuted in many studies. In the mother's womb, children already feel pain, and even more directly after birth.

* '''"Circumcision is comparable with ear piercing or other piercings."'''

*: Usually any sensitive tissue or even functional body parts remove earlobes and piercings. Also earlobes and piercing holes can grow again. Therefore, this comparison is completely untenable.

* '''"[[Circumcision]] is like cutting fingernails or hair."'''

*: Fingernails and hair grow by themselves. This trivializing comparison of [[Circumcision|foreskin amputation]] with normal personal hygiene is untenable.

== Medical Prophylactical Arguments ==

* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against ~~[[phimosis]]~~.'''

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

* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against STDs.'''

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

*: People refer over and over again to a study<ref>http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/</ref> of the [[WHO]] which should have determined that [[circumcision]] should have a 60% protection against HIV/AIDS. This study is sharply criticized worldwide by experts.

* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against urinary tract infections (HTI).'''

* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against penis cancer.'''

* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against cervical cancer / HPV.'''

*: The aforementioned diseases were mentioned during the modern history of [[circumcision]] to somehow justify non-medical circumcision medically. For prevention of the diseases mentioned however, other non-destructive measures (such as hygiene, condoms, etc.) are more appropriate. America with the highest circumcision rate of all western countries has also still the highest HIV / AIDS rate in all Western countries.

* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against [[phimosis]].'''

*: There are actually medically indicated cases of [[phimosis]]. But more than 90% of them can be corrected without surgery.

== Hygienical Arguments ==

* '''"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.

* '''"Uncircumcised penisses always smell."'''

*: 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.

== Esthetical Arguments ==

* '''"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.

== Sexual Arguments ==

* '''"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.

* '''"~~Circumcised men come later~~."'''

== Moral Arguments ==

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

*: Masturbation is something completely natural and part of the right to sexual self-determination.

== ~~Moral Arguments~~ ==

== See also ==

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

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

==References==

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 == Religious Arguments ==
-* '''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.
+=== Jewish Religion ===
-* '''Circumcision has been recommended by the Prophet Mohammed.''' This argument is brought by the Muslim communities, with respect to a Sunna text of the prophet where the male circumcision is required.
+* '''"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.
+* '''"Only the [[circumcision]] makes a boy a real Jew."'''
+*: Refutation: In the Jewish-religious culture, a boy becomes a Jew automatically when he is born by a Jewish mother.
+=== Islamic Religion ===
+* '''"Circumcision has been recommended by the Prophet Mohammed."'''
+*: This argument is brought by the Muslim communities, with respect to a Sunna text of the prophet where the male circumcision is required.
+== Trivializing arguments ==
+* '''"[[Circumcision]] is similar to removing a patch."'''
+*: All published circumcision videos show that those who are circumcised without adequate anaesthetic treatment (anaesthesia or anaesthetic), suffer immense pain. Infants fall regularly in shock as a reaction to the pain, when being circumcised without effective anaestesia.
+* '''"Babies feel no pain yet, therefore should be circumcised at an early stage."'''
+*: This assertion is completely obsolete and refuted in many studies. In the mother's womb, children already feel pain, and even more directly after birth.
+* '''"Circumcision is comparable with ear piercing or other piercings."'''
+*: Usually any sensitive tissue or even functional body parts remove earlobes and piercings. Also earlobes and piercing holes can grow again. Therefore, this comparison is completely untenable.
+* '''"[[Circumcision]] is like cutting fingernails or hair."'''
+*: Fingernails and hair grow by themselves. This trivializing comparison of [[Circumcision|foreskin amputation]] with normal personal hygiene is untenable.
 == Medical Prophylactical Arguments ==
-* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against [[phimosis]].'''
+* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against HIV/AIDS.'''
 * '''Circumcision supposedly protects against STDs.'''
-* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against HIV/AIDS.'''
+*: People refer over and over again to a study<ref>http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/</ref> of the [[WHO]] which should have determined that [[circumcision]] should have a 60% protection against HIV/AIDS. This study is sharply criticized worldwide by experts.
 * '''Circumcision supposedly protects against urinary tract infections (HTI).'''
 * '''Circumcision supposedly protects against penis cancer.'''
 * '''Circumcision supposedly protects against cervical cancer / HPV.'''
+*: The aforementioned diseases were mentioned during the modern history of [[circumcision]] to somehow justify non-medical circumcision medically. For prevention of the diseases mentioned however, other non-destructive measures (such as hygiene, condoms, etc.) are more appropriate. America with the highest circumcision rate of all western countries has also still the highest HIV / AIDS rate in all Western countries.
+* '''Circumcision supposedly protects against [[phimosis]].'''
+*: There are actually medically indicated cases of [[phimosis]]. But more than 90% of them can be corrected without surgery.
 == Hygienical Arguments ==
 * '''"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.
 * '''"Uncircumcised penisses always smell."'''
+*: 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.
 == Esthetical Arguments ==
 * '''"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.
 == Sexual Arguments ==
+* '''"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.
-* '''"Circumcised men come later."'''
+== Moral Arguments ==
+* '''"I want to keep my boy from masturbating."'''
+*: Masturbation is something completely natural and part of the right to sexual self-determination.
-== Moral Arguments ==
+== See also ==
+* [[Circumcision#Non-medical_indications_for_circumcision|Circumpendium: Non-medical indications for circumcision]]
-* '''"I want to keep my boy from masturbating."'''
+==References==
+<references />
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