An ancient circumcision ritual is at the center of a present-day legal battle in New York. The New York City Department of Health wants to require parental consent for a controversial circumcision ...

Circumcision is a medical procedure that involves removing the foreskin, the tissue covering the head of the penis. It is performed for various reasons, including religious, cultural, and medical. The ...

Germany’s parliament called on the government to step in to protect the right to religious-based circumcision of boys, as long as it is done by a medically qualified practitioner who avoids inflicting ...

The front page article published in the Nov. 19 Forum featured a discussion about circumcision. One of the quotes is attributed to Dr. Stephanie Hanson of Sanford Medical Center, who reportedly said ...

For long, male circumcision has been practiced religiously and with pride. However, numerous cases of death after circumcision have been recorded. In most cultures in Kenya, boys undergo the cut while ...

This explainer looks at adult circumcision, why some men choose the procedure, what recovery involves, and how it may affect sexual experience.

On his nationally syndicated radio show on Monday, conservative host Michael Savage slammed metzitzah b’peh, the Orthodox Jewish circumcision ritual that has led to the transmission of herpes in ...

When I was pregnant with my first child, I just thought that circumcision was what you did, no big deal, and that every man was circumcised. Then one day I saw a picture of a baby being circumcised, ...