Here pediatrician Robert Van Howe and human rights expert J. Steven Svoboda criticise the authoritarianism in this sort of advocacy and expose the many flaws in their argument.
In their review article, Clark et al. claim, “Neonatal circumcision is medically necessary and ethically imperative.”[1] This represents a double contradiction of, among others, the positions of the American Academy of Pediatrics,[2] the British Medical Association,[3] the Canadian Paediatric Society,[4] and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.[5]
To justify such a dramatic conclusion, the authors need to make a strong case. This is all the more true given the authors far-reaching intent to examine the medical evidence, give an ethical analysis, and develop guidelines to implement mandatory neonatal circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately the authors stumble so badly on the first two steps that the third step becomes irrelevant. We will evaluate the accuracy and quality of the “medical evidence” Clark et al. use in their analysis by parsing the facts from the fantasy, providing an overview of the risk-benefit analyses of circumcision, evaluating the authors’ ethical justification of infant circumcision, and providing our own modest proposal.
Without providing citations, the authors refer to studies that the foreskin has greater susceptibility to traumatic epithelial disruptions during intercourse. To our knowledge, such studies do not exist. To the contrary, the only study we are aware of found a non-significant trend that penile abrasions are more common in circumcised men.[6]
2. While Clark et al. suggest, again without citation, that the frenulum is “particular susceptible to injury during intercourse,” to our knowledge no studies substantiate such a claim.
Nach meiner eigenen, jahrzehntelangen Studie ist "intercourse" keineswegs traumatisch, sondern traumhaft schön! 
The authors suggest, again without citation, that the micro-environment in the preputial sac “may be conducive to viral survival.”
Ich würde eher sagen, die Atemwege! Die sind da sehr empfänglich. Am Penis hatte ich noch nie ein Virus-Infektion. Gegen HPV kann sich jeder impfen lassen. Gegen Erkältungen oder Noro-Viren leider nicht.
Usw, usw,, vielen Dank, dass sich von Howe und Svoboda die Mühe machen sich mit diesen Hirngespinsten auseinander zu setzen!