J.H. Kellogg, cereal mogul, believed circumcision was a sure-fire cure for masturbation—particularly if the surgery was performed without chloroform so the boy could feel it. In the 1870s, his and ...

An investigation into three mohelim in Antwerp has prompted a diplomatic row between Brussels and Washington. What are the rules in Belgium, and further afield? And how has the religious community ...

The Belgian government has clashed with the US after Donald Trump's ambassador accused Brussels of antisemitism over its laws regulating circumcision. The United States' ambassador to Belgium has met ...

Christians are among the faith communities that could be impacted after NHS Scotland requested an end to public funding for religious circumcision. According to a new Freedom of Information (FOI) ...

‘Catastrophic failure of safeguarding’ highlighted by fact Zuber Bux’s lay practice is legal, campaigners say A doctor who was struck off over a “reckless” circumcision that risked killing a toddler ...

British Jews are weighing in after authorities said they are considering deeming some circumcisions “a form of child abuse” following deaths from the procedure. The Crown Prosecution Service, the ...

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Objective: This study investigates the factors influencing Chinese parents’ decision to pursue circumcision for their children aged 6–12 years and analyzes the role of the Internet and media in the ...

The recent criminal sentencing of a UK-based former paediatric surgeon for performing unauthorised childhood circumcisions for cultural and religious purposes—despite having been previously struck off ...

A lawsuit filed by circumcision opponents cleared a crucial legal hurdle last week as a judge shot down Oregon’s attempt to dismiss the case. The suit, filed in March on behalf of several circumcised ...

When was circumcision first practiced? How did it evolve? Why was it practiced? The earliest literary evidence of the practice of circumcision goes back to ancient Egypt. There are many hypotheses ...

About a week ago, I joked to someone that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was going to say that clouds cause autism; he’d been quiet for a week or two, which meant he would be plucking something new out of the ...