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Article: Circumcision.(Health)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- August 17, 2003
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Please write about circumcision, its medical benefits and adverse effects. I read an article in a newspaper about some physicians who are actively campaigning against circumcision a form of mutilation. What is your stand on this matter? Sylvia R. Iloilo City
At birth, the conical head of the male penis, the glans, is normally covered by a redundant skin called prepuce. The operation that involves slitting or cutting away all or a part of the prepuce to expose the glans is called circumcision. (By the way, there is also such a thing as female circumcision, but that is a totally different procedure, which, as far as I know, is not practiced in the ...