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Infant circumcision has negative health consequences and it violates human rights.
It knows that circumcision is a damaging social custom but won't criticize circumcision too strongly because it fears being an agent of social change. Yet, it allows its doctors to be the paid agents of this social custom involving unconsenting children. The AAP is forsaking its responsibility to protect a boy's right to his own body. The survey, published in the January 1999 issue of the British Journal of Urology , found wide-ranging physical, sexual and psychological consequences from circumcision. Many men reported a sense of having been violated or mutilated, and feelings ranging from resentment to rage over this surgical alteration they did not choose.