Let's remember that the AAP is the same organisation that endorsed a mild form of female circumcision for girls a couple years ago. (see for example [Login to see the link] or just Google. The AAP is not high on my list of trustworthy organisations anymore.
It's not just intactivists who are against circ. Every industrialised country other than the US has done proper scientific studies and rejected both male and female circumcision. Male circumcision is now banned in Australian public hospitals and never caught on in the first place in Europe.
If there were any truth to what the AAP is saying you would expect to see higher rates of HIV, other STDs, cancer etc etc in Europe,Scandinavia England, Australia etc where circumcision is below 10% and often below 1%. But we don't. US STD, cancer rates etc are slightly higher than in other industrialised countries. In short there is no benefit to circumcision but there are a lot of risks and disadvantages. For a response to the AAP's nonsense see: [Login to see the link]
[Login to see the link] (which by the way is run by an intelligent and attractive female Jewish lawyer who supports the Bris Shalom)
