The sexual revolution of the 1960's attacked circumcision. One of their arguments was that circumcision decreased a man's sensual pleasure. I have read in other places that young uncircumcised boys have a greater penial preoccupation than circumcised boys. Circumcision decreases penile cancer. After reviewing the data from 50,000 cases in the past 50 years, Dr. Thomas E. Wiswell, a neonatologist noted that less than 1 percent of these cases were found in circumcised men.
Circumcision protects a future wife from cervical cancer.
In 1988 approximately 7,000 women died of this disease. The American Academy of Perdiatrics has cited that there was a significant decrease in cervical cancer when the male partner is circumcised. Circumcision helps prevent urinary tract infections. This motivated the pediatricians to join the campaign against circumcision. By 1983 the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology also agreed there was no value in circumcision.