>>20396225It's an unnecessary surgical amputation, which has zero medical benefit.
Any form of amputation or pain, especially those inflicted during childhood will lead to brain damage. This is due to the fact that any cutting of nerves cause the nerve to die all the way up into the brain (neurons are very very long cells that travel across the whole body into the brain). This typically shows up as various kinds of holes in the brain.
In the case of circumcision, it's now know it can contribution to autism:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530408/The risk of death from circumcision is now well know, death from blood lose, infection, pain induced seizure, and pain induced inhalation of vomit leading to suffocation has been documented. A baby is more likely to die from circumcision then they are from vehicle accidents. In the USA, 100-200 babies die from circumcision every year.
Corrective surgeries for botched circumcisions represent a very large number of cases that urologists see.
Many men have very serious sexual problems due to circumcision and women also generally find sex more pleasurable with uncircumcised men. Foreskins are mechanically necessary to improve sexual function. Unfortunately, there is no way to recover the lost foreskin organ after it has been amputated.
>>20396228Circumcision for girls is illegal. For boys it is legal, that does not mean it is safe or necessary. It even even illegal to puncture a baby's labia to acquire a single drop of blood.
