The Costs Of Skipping Circumcision
Bryan Nash | Sep 05, 2012 | Comments 7 |
More and more, parents are opting not to have their male babies circumcised. Statistics show that nowadays only about half of newborn males are circumcised. And researchers are suggesting that the trend could cost the healthcare system huge amounts.
Scientists believe that circumcision prevents sexually transmitted diseases by depriving pathogens of a moist environment. In Africa, researchers have found that uncircumcised men have a significantly higher rate of HIV.
Scientists at John Hopkins estimate that the low rate of circumcisions could result in extra healthcare costs as high as $211 million as the uncircumcised males become adults.
If the United States follows the trend of other countries and circumcision rates dip to 10 percent, researchers estimate that the extra healthcare costs for each uncircumcised male would be $313.
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The extra healthcare costs for each uncircumcised male would be $313. Of course, there is an initial cost for the circumcism itself – say $100? Perhaps $200? So the actual cost of NOT being circumcised comes to $113-$213 – not very much for avoiding a physically and emotionally traumatic event. And of course, perhaps this cost could be avoided, too, by teaching hygiene so that the pathogens in that moist environment would simply be washed away.
This is the most nonsense thing I’ve ever seen. It was proven years ago that the “research” that was done years ago in circ ver uncirc men was big time flawed and biased. The researchers discredited and now you publish trash like that and try to say it’s fact. Shame on you for missleading the public.
Dr, Scott, you seem extremely offended; Bryan Nash is merely updating us… if you have not been “done” it is high time you consider it, otherwise you could be the victim…!
I choose not to circumcise my son because it is a barbaric unscientific “proceedure” that is now considered by the insurance companies as “not medically necessary”, it also lessons the sexual pleasure of the man. In England where I was born children are taught to clean around this are as a normal hygiene practice.
I gave birth to both of my children at home under water with a midwife to enable them to have a gentle entry into this world and look forward to the continuing trend of natural home births and less “intervention” at births which increases newborn and mother mortality rates.
Blessings for a healthy day
Michele Monk
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Welcome to the machine, now pull out yO’ thing and lets get the MOIL so they can make a few bucks off your foreskin.
OMG, this whole story line is nothing but Bloody utter Rubbish!
OPEN your eyes people and take off the blinders.
What will you {not} do when told to do it by False Idols?
I Pray for PEACE, and I Pray that we learn what the TRUE meaning of LOVE is!
Peace and LOVE.
Yes, most of these statistics are terribly flawed in mant ways, the advocates of circumcision desparately trying to prove their preference scientifically. Most Europeans do not follow this sexual mutilation but do not show higher rates of sexual deseases. USA for example has much higher herpes figures. As for reducing moist places for pathogens, this argument could also be extended to justify cutting off all or some of womens’ labia. But the Western medical authorities and women would be aghast at that suggestion. Hygiene and a little less promiscuity would go a long way, it should be noted, to minimize desease.
AS A NEGRO MALE BORN IN THE 1960s, I AM UNCIRCUMCISED. MY FATHER, TWO BROTHERS, GRANDFATHERS, UNCLES AND MALE COUSINS [BORN BEFORE 1970] ARE, TOO.
CIRCUMCISION IS NOT FOR PARENTS TO DECIDE. IF AN ADULT MALE WANTS TO BE CIRCUMCISED, THAT IS HIS PEROGATIVE. THE ISSUE IS GOOD PERSONAL HYGIENE. IN REFERENCE TO HEALTH PROBLEMS, THIS ISSUE IS NO MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHER FACTORS – LIKE, DRINKING AND SMOKING – WHICH IMPACT HEALTH.
I WILL KEEP THIS “CLEAN.” IN REFERENCE TO SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED DISEASES, “FORESKIN-PLAY” HAS BECOME A COMMON PRACTICE AMONG YOUNGER-MALE HOMOSEXUALS. THESE HOMOSEXUALS VALUE PLEASURE MORE THAN A CONCERN FOR DISEASE TRANSMISSION. BECAUSE OF HIV/AIDS, “safe-sex” PRACTITIONERS ARE CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO KEEP PLEASURE IN THEIR SEX LIVES SINCE THEY CONSIDER BODY-FLUID EXCHANGE TO BE DANGEROUS. THUS, “FORESKIN-PLAY” IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THESE WAYS. THE ARTICLE STATES UNCIRCUMCISED MALES ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE A SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED DISEASE. IN REFERENCE TO MALE HOMOSEXUAL “CRUISING,” THIS HIGHER PROBABILITY FOR STDs IS DUE TO THE FACT UNCIRCUMCISED MALES HAVE MORE PARTNERS SINCE YOUNGER MALES HAVE PLACED THOSE WITH FORESKINS ON A PEDESTAL.
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON