Comment & Debate
Dr David Hawker. “The Benefits of Male Circumcision”. CircInfo.com. March 2004 – “This is an operation as old as mankind, highlighted today by Jewish and Muslim tradition in which all males are usually circumcised as part of their faith. It is performed worldwide by many tribes and cultures as an initiation rite and, despite some aggressive opposition, it is routinely done at birth for the majority of boys in the USA as well as many in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and much of the English speaking world – except, latterly, in the UK. Overall it is estimated that a quarter of the male population is circumcised – about 750 million males. They cannot all be wrong! Yet in Europe today there is widespread ignorance of its value.”