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One of NotJustSkin's primary missions is to educate the public about violations of [[informed consent]] or bodily integrity. In the U.S., [[MGM|male genital cutting]], more often called [[circumcision]], is commonly practiced even though parents rarely receive the information that would be required to give [[informed consent]] to any other procedure. Circumcision is the only procedure where a doctor can legally amputate part of a non-consenting child without any medical reason.
==Video==
'''NOTE:''' This presentation includes some graphic slides necessary to present the procedure and anatomy being discussed.
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What is infant [[circumcision]]? Why is the practice common in U.S. hospitals and not in other countries? What does it remove and how does that affect the child? Does scientific data suggest that circumcision has benefits? What are the potential complications? How does it affect sexuality? Is it a medical procedure or a social surgery? If it's unnecessary surgery, what about contemporary bioethics principles?
# Easier Surgical Procedures. The discovery in 1885 of hypodermic cocaine as a local anaesthetic made it easier for doctors without expertise in the use of chloroform to perform minor surgeries. Several mechanically-aided circumcision techniques, forerunners of modern clamp-based circumcision methods, were first published in the medical literature of the 1890s, allowing surgeons to perform circumcisions more safely and successfully.
Circumcision was at a statistical height of about 75% of the country from 1950 to 1970. Today it is becoming less popular, partially because of high numbers of Hispanic immigrants, and growing opposition in the more progressive northeast and west (it remains overwhelmingly common in the SouthMidwest). Today, the major medical societies in the USA do not recommend elective non-therapeutic infant circumcision. This has long also been the case in the rest of the English-speaking world, which has never seen circumcision rates as high as the [[United States]].
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