1

Infection and sometimes death

2

Haemorrhage and sometimes death

3

Pain / shock, and sometimes death

4

Meth[a]emoglobin[a]emia, brain damage and possibly death, if EMLA cream is used to anaesthetise a newborn

5

Necrotising fasciitis ("galloping gangrene")

6

Damage (scarring, pitting) to the glans or shaft. In the case of Dustin Evans Jr, the scarring caused a urethral stricture (narrowing of the urinary tube), and it was during an operation to relieve this that he died.

7

Urethral fissure/fistula

8

Scaphoid megalourethra

9

"Trapped/buried penis"

10

Occlusion of penile venous system

11

Urinary Tract Infection

12

Meatitis

13

Meatal ulcer

14

Meatal stenosis

15

Multiple pyogenic granuloma - a series of papillomatous (brushlike) growths around the circumcision wound (Pyogenic means "caused by pus")

16

Eczema of the glans and meatus

17

Oedema of local tissue

18

Loss of sensitivity / impotence

19

Reduced volume of penis

20

May shorten the penis:
"Circumcised men had shorter erect penises than uncircumcised men (p<0.05)."
Richters J, Gerofi J, Donovan B. Are condoms the right size(s)? a method for self-measurement of the erect penis. Venereology 1995; 8(2): 77-81.

21

Painful erections

22

Wound re-opening (in adulthood)

23

Production of ugly scar tissue, skin-bridges, skin-tags, malapposition (rejoining on the twist) and/or suture holes

24

Breach of bodily integrity

25

Breach of human rights

26

Breach of property rights

27

Psychological trauma, resulting in eg. elective muteness

28

Because he had had enough of a struggle just to be born, and deserved no more pain

29

Loss of an organ for stimulating the partner and retaining semen in the vagina after ejaculation

30

Loss of an organ for play, docking, etc.

31

Loss of skin for plastic surgery of hypospadias

32

Loss of skin for plastic surgery to eyelids

33

Loss of protection against frostbite.

34

Because the foreskin evolved over tens of millions of years and every male mammal has one. / Because God knew what S/He was doing when S/He put it there. / Because Nature knows best.

35

Because he will almost always be glad you didn't

36

Cost (That's why Elvis was intact.)

1

SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - cot death)

2

Because circumcision hinders the establishment of breast-feeding

3

Increased risk of HIV

4

Prostate cancer, due to reduced innervation impairing prostate function on ejaculation

5

Impotence

6

Because balanitis may indicate diabetes

7

Because condoms slip off circumcised penes more easily.

8

Because he might be switched with another baby being circumcised at the same time (Memphis, TN, 16/4/98 (AP))