These benefits are not compelling enough to warrant the AAP to recommend routine newborn circumcision. Who are we to question Mother Nature. Little boys are born this way. There is also the issue of pain. It was once thought that newborns did not experience pain in the same way as adults, so circumcisions were often performed without anesthesia.
Doctors now know that while the operation is quick, it is painful.
Yet in many cases, it remains up to parents to request the use of anesthesia. For the first time, the AAP is urging parents who choose circumcision to ask that doctors provide the baby with pain relief. Then there is the matter of sexual pleasure. There is no doubt that the foreskin is a highly sensitive erogenous zone. The question is how much the removal of that tissue affects sexual sensation.