I'll repeat myself from an earlier post.
Clearly 'circumcision' (I prefer the term, sexual mutilation) is completely unethical. Informed consent for any surgery requires that the person to be operated on is old enough to provide such consent. So adults, of course, ought to be able to choose this. For babies, on the other hand, this is child abuse.
This particular surgery severs 2/3 of the nerves to the penis, which leads to easily-measured less sensitivity of the penis (and this has been published in medical literature, such as a recent article in the N.E. J. Med. on this subject). The end result for older men is measureably higher impotence.
For babies, it is true that most recover without complications (except for reduced sensation). For those that do suffer complications (usually infections, which sometimes lead to amputation of the penis, occasionally death of the infant), what are you going to say? Whoops? On top of this, this U.S. does not have any formal mechanism in place for tracking and compiling circumcision complications - so accurate nation-wide numbers can only be estimated.
And for those on this thread that say where is the literature? - the answer is in your own writing. You discount all of the anti-circumcision websites, organizations and liturature, and then say where is the literature? WTF? It is trivial to find scientific literature references from pro or anti circumcision websites, and then go to any university library to get these papers, look up their refences, etc. For anyone, M.D. or otherwise, to say that the literature offers a clear STD ot STI advantage is grossly misleading. Even a casual review of the literature on this subject reveals stunningly weak statistics, particlularly in the area of addressing confounding factors. But then, statistics are generally not a strong suit of M.D.s, who are neither statisticians nor scienticists.
Indeed, the history of circumcision in the U.S. is higly instructive. An M.D.,
Dr. Kellogg (of cornflakes fame), introduced large-scale circumcision to the U.S. specifically to DISCOURAGE
masturbation, because it was known even then (over a hundred years ago) that cicumcision severed approximately 2/3 of the nerves to the penis and (it was hoped) the reduced sensation would lead to less "bad activity" by male youth. That is, circumcision in the U.S. got its start as an explicit anti-male sexuality "public health" measure. Of course, this has not stopped masturation in the U.S. or anywhere else. And ever since, some M.D.s have been making up other B.S. arguments to rationalize circumcision.
The good news is that mainstream medicine is slowly converging to the obvious. Both EU and U.S. medical associations now expressly recommend against routine, non-necessary circumcision. Sooner or later, it will be banned. In the mean-time, people who choose to force this sexual mutilation on their sons have no-one to blame when their sons reach adulthood and demand an explanation. No one to blame but themselves, because the information is easily available, and no Western public health entities still recommends routine circumcision.