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There also are additional non-financial costs, which include sexual and sensory losses that adversely impact on the sexual experience in adult life, and psychological losses such as [[PTSD]], and grieving of losses.
==The advantages and benefits of avoiding circumcision==
* Your newborn son will not be cruelly strapped to a [[circumstraint]].
* Your newborn son will not suffer the extreme [[pain]] of circumcision.
* Your newborn son will not suffer the physical and psychic [[trauma]]* of circumcision.
* Your newborn son will not be exposed to the surgical risks of [[bleeding]], [[infection]], and [[complication]] of non-therapeutic circumcision.
* Your newborn son will not have an open wound requiring care and subject to [[infection]] on his [[penis]].
* Your newborn son will not suffer the weeks of [[Pain#Post-surgical_pain post-surgical pain]].
* Your newborn son will not have his [[Pain#Pain.27s_injury_to_the_infant_nervous_system| nervous system permanently injured]] by the extreme pain of circumcision.
* Your newborn son's [[foreskinned]] [[penis]] will be [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| protected]] and need no special care at home.
* Your newborn son will be more able to start [[breastfeeding]] due to the lack of [[trauma]].
* Your newborn son may leave hospital earlier due to avoidance of an expensive, harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.
* Your newborn son's [[foreskinned]] penis will fit the style of the twenty-first century.
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