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Pseudo-medical arguments
* '''"You can't teach a boy to wash there. Thus he will be circumcised."'''
*: Parental education failure should not be borne on the backs of the boys. If parents do not feel able to educate their son to proper personal hygiene, they should take help from official aid agencies rather than to impose the son on an operation that has no other justification than parental laziness.
== Pseudo-medical arguments ==
* '''Today, the foreskin has no function any more.'''
*: This argument holds very persistently, often used by women who only know uncircumcised men, but even by urologists who earn a lot of money with [[circumcision]]s and therefore welcome any argument pro [[circumcision]].
*: A common stereotype of this argument sounds like this: "The [[foreskin]] was necessary when we lived in trees and crawled on all fours. The [[foreskin]] then had protected the [[Glans penis|glans]]. Now that we are running on two legs and men no longer grind their genital over the floor, the [[foreskin]] can therefore get away."
*: During the [[Circumcision Debate]] 2012 in Germany, a single Muslim children's surgeon from Cologne was repeatedly quoted<ref>http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/deutschland/arzt-fuerchtet-illegale-beschneidungen-aid-1.2895603 Doctor fears illegal circumcisions (German article)]</ref> who railed with exactly this stereotype and other abstruse arguments against an impending [[circumcision]] ban.
*: For many years, the medicine knows that the [[foreskin]] is a very important organg of the body that not only contains a large number of very sensitive nerve cells and is very beneficial for sex, but also protects the [[Glans penis|glans]] against drying, keratinization, and sunburn.
== Medical Prophylactical Arguments ==