Circumcision industry

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Circumcision industry is the term used to identify the collection of American medical trade associations, state medical societies, hospitals, and physicians that promote medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic male circumcision in the United States, and who financially profit from the performance thereof.

Medical trade associations

The medical trade associations are primarily the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Urological Association.

State medical societies

State medical societies work behind the scenes within their own state to remove any impediments to the practice of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision and to maintain insurance coverage

Hospitals

Hospitals promote and profit from the practice of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic practice, by allowing its practice, by automatically providing a circumcision consent form in the package of forms provided to an expectant mother in labor on admission, by directing nurses to repeatedly inquire of mothers if a circumcision is desired.

Physicians

The physicians are primarily those who practice in the areas of general practice, obstetrics, pediatrics, o0 urology.

Profits

The profits are amazingly large. Bollinger (2012) estimated annual intake from the performance of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision to be $$3,647,000,000.