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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' has been heavily promoted by the [[circumcision industry]] in the [[United States of America]] for more than a century. Circumcision of the newborn does not treat or protect disease as no disease is present. There is no medical indication for [[circumcision]], so '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is seldom practiced out side of the United States as because newborn boys are born with healthy foreskins, protective [[foreskin]],<ref name="mansfield1995">{{REFjournal |last=Mansfield |first= |init=CJ |author-link= |last2=Hueston |first2= |init2=WJ |author2-link= |last3=Rudy |first3= |init3=M |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Neonatal Circumcision: Associated Factors and Length of Hospital Stay |journal=J Fam Pract |date=1995-10 |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=370-6 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/mansfield/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=7561711 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |doi= |accessdate=2025-04-17}}</ref> It is dangerous for newborn boys to receive general anesthesia, so there when a newborn boy is no medical indication for [[circumcised]], he will experience severe [[pain]] and [[trauma]], and he will be put at risk of the known risks of circumcisionsurgery, including [[bleeding]], [[infection]], and surgical accident.