The other medical arguments are also under attack. Use antibiotics, not a scalpel. Performing a circumcision on someone who doesn't have any say in what's happening to his body, ostensibly to reduce the risk of a type of cancer seen 70 years later, seems somewhat premature at best. But the issue appears even more questionable when you consider that Denmark, a country of overwhelmingly uncircumcised men, has the lowest penile cancer rate in the world. India, on the other hand, with a similarly large uncircumcised population, has one of the world's highest penile cancer rates.
Some proponents point to hygiene, the traditional argument for circumcision.
In fact, it's easier to keep clean than female genitalia. The hygiene issue just doesn't stand up, unless there are environmental and cultural factors that fail to promote cleanliness. But the expert concurs when it comes to the issue of pain. Wiswell estimates that half of all circumcisions are performed without anesthesia. Milos says the percentage is far greater than that.