Non-religious male and female circumcision started in the USA in the late 1800s because doctors thought it would keep boys and girls from masturbating.
A recent study found circumcised women have a lower HIV infection rate. It appears there are health reasons that favor female circumcision too.
Whoever said it has anything to do with HIV? And last I heard, most reputable medical organizations recommended leaving the decision to the parents in the case of infant circumcision. And you are underestimating the benefits.
Also, don't cloud the subject with moronic talk about female circumcision.
Every professional medical organization in the world that has a policy on circumcision says the medical benefits of circumcision are about equal to the risks and harms. In other words there is no net medical benefit. To the best of my knowledge infant circumcision is the only surgery that doctors will perform on a child that has no net medical benefit. For all other surgeries the normal standard of care requires the medical benefits of the surgery to significantly outweigh the risk and harms. Infant circumcision does not meet that standard of care.
If you know of any other surgery that doctors will perform on a child where the medical benefits of the surgery do not significantly outweigh the risk and harms or the surgery does not correct a birth defect, please let me know what it is.
Also, don't cloud the subject with moronic talk about female circumcision.
The main difference between male genital cutting and female genital cutting is there are more varieties of female genital cutting. There is one form of female genital cutting that is similar to male circumcision. Sunna circumcision cuts off the prepuce of a girls clitoris. Male circumcision cuts off the prepuce of a boys penis.
Both sunna circumcision of girls and male circumcision of boys are not medically necessary. Both remove a normal, healthy part of a child's genitals without a medical indication. Both are done mainly for cultural or social reasons. Both are done by doctors; in America doctors circumcise boys and in Egypt doctors circumcise girls.
Please explain the ethical difference between a doctor cutting off the prepuce of a girl's clitoris without a valid medical indication and a doctor cutting off the prepuce of a boy's penis without a valid medical indication.