Men circumcised as adults report a significant loss of sensitivity. If it is done without anesthesia, critics say it causes newborns unnecessary pain for cosmetic reasons. In that position, being held down, they usually cry anyway. They cry a little when we numb the penis with a needle. They know we are doing something, but I assume they just feel they are being manipulated.
People get along either way.
About 90 percent of newborn boys are circumcised at Milford Hospital. The pressure on her not to circumcise him, from nurses mostly, was tremendous. The Davidsons are Jewish, and the baby was circumcised. In older males, it's surgery. Dr. Chris Fletcher, a member of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, conducted a national survey in which he found that only 52 percent of doctors educate parents about circumcision.