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Originally Posted by Rathji
I didn't cut my son, since they wanted some ungodly fee to do it, with no real benefits.
Took a couple weeks to get used to washing it, but other than that hasn't bothered me once. He had a blocked pore (or something) near the foreskin once, and when we took him to the doctor, he swore it wasn't related to the foreskin, and happens all the time in kids - cut or not.
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Do you need to pay to have at done at birth in Canada? I wasn't aware of that, but that may be another big reason why the rate is lower in Canada than the US.
This study I found on Wikipedia (
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi...tract/99/1/138 ) mentions that, in the US, States in which Medicaid covers routine male circumcision (some states cover it still, apparently), the rate can be up to 24% higher than in states where you need to pay to have it done.