Male circumcision is the surgical removal of some or all of the foreskin (or prepuce) from the penis. The origins of circumcision are unknown, and probably predate written history, but the practice is ...

Circumcision marks the transition from childhood into adulthood - at least traditionally. Some communities in Kenya still circumcise boys above ten years old and teach them tenets of their community.

Six people wearing white outfits with red coloring on their crotch areas carried signs protesting against widely practiced procedure of circumcision on infants Saturday morning in Pittsfield. Harry ...

NEW YORK — Several infants have contracted herpes in New York in recent months after undergoing a circumcision ritual, the Health Department confirmed. There have been three cases reported since ...

Dressed in white with dramatic red stains on their crotches, anti-circumcision protestors known as the ‘Bloodstained Men & Their Friends,’ rally in Pittsfield on Saturday — a stop on the group’s ...

Some pastors offer circumcision ceremonies as an alternative to older practices involving ancestor worship, misogyny, and ...

A New York City infant was recently infected with herpes after undergoing a controversial circumcision rite, but survived, health officials said. The baby contracted herpes simplex virus type 1 after ...

Although great strides in the recognition and treatment of circumcision pain have been made, no single study to date has evaluated an approach to circumcision that integrates the multiple modalities ...

A new proposal by liberal and left-leaning legislators in Germany would bar ritual circumcision for boys under the age of 14. Some 50 members of Parliament – from the Social Democratic Party, the Left ...

Circumcision not only protects against HIV in heterosexual men, but it also helps prevent two other sexually transmitted infections, a large new study found. Circumcised males reduced their risk of ...

But modernity has changed this sole purpose of circumcision and the age has been lowered to just eight days for some people, including Kenyans living in the Diaspora. Monica Wairimu Kung’u who lives ...