Juz's mum and aunts work in the nursing field, and one comment they said that cemented my choice was the amount of elderly men they had seen having to have a circ done because they were too old to clean themselves properly.
I had never thought of that situation - but it's very true. And although everyone says "it's easy to keep that area clean"... you hope that your boy maintains his cleanliness as he gets older... but you really have no control over what he does as he becomes an adult. There are some pretty skanky guys out there...

I wonder at the figure of 90% which has been quoted as the percentage of baby boys who are not being circ'd. I have heard this figure before, but I question it. I wonder if it includes circumsions for religious reasons, as I would have thought that that would account for quite a lot of boys in itself.
As both Jewish & Muslim boys are circumcised (for religous reasons)- I imagine that would be a large percerntage of boys. Still many people circ their boys for non-religous reasons... So I also question the 90% figure being quoted.

I assume they get some of the stats from medicare? Or do Dr's have to report in when they do the procedure?
My son was circ'd by a Mohel (rabbi) - so there was no contact with medicare on that one. And the Mohel didn't have to report the procedure to anyone. So at a guess - none of the Jewish circ's would be "reported" to any medical or government body. It's possibly the same for Muslims as well ? It would be interesting to see where they get the stats from... because if it is from medicare or government departments - there there is a HUGE % not being reported.