Circumcision: Why Are We Doing This?

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🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week, we’re entering the foreskin firestorm. We’re asking: what are the risks of circumcision? And are there any medical benefits? To find out we talk to pediatric urologist Andrew Freedman, HIV researcher Godfrey Kigozi, and sex researcher Caroline Pukall. Check out the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/38leLWD Selected readings: The American Academy of Pediatrics technical report, which Andrew helped writeA thoughtful opinion piece from AndrewThe trial in Uganda that Godfrey co-authoredCaroline’s team’s penis-poking studyAnother paper from Caroline’s team on how men feel about their circumcisions Credits: This episode has been produced by Rose Rimler, with help from Wendy Zukerman, along with Shruti Ravindran and Meryl Horn. Our senior producer is Kaitlyn Sawrey. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Additional editing help from Caitlin Kenney. Extra thanks to Soraya Shockley and Saidu Tejan-Thomas. Fact checking by Michelle Harris. Mix and sound design by Emma Munger. Music written by Bobby Lord and Emma Munger. Recording assistance from Gideon Brower, Ryan Delaney, Tom Wayne Harris, and Bahizi Ignatius. For this episode, we also spoke to Dr. Jenn Bossio, Dr. Aaron Tobian, and a bunch of folks at the CDC. Thank you so much. A special thanks to the parents and circumcised men who spoke with us for this story, as well as Frank Lopez, the Zukerman Family, and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlett Media.
0:05.0	This is the show where we pit facts against four skins.
0:08.5	On today's show, circumcisions.
0:11.4	To snip or not to snip.
0:14.2	So how many circumcisions do you reckon you've performed?
0:19.8	That's a good question.
0:22.8	I think we could say that more than a thousand.
0:24.8	That's a lot of willies.
0:28.0	Well, yeah.
0:34.9	And the man trimming all those willies is Dr Andrew Friedman, a pediatric urologist at
0:39.9	Saita's Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
0:42.6	And when it comes to circumcisions, Andrew has heard it all.
0:46.5	He's heard from anxious parents who don't know what to do,
0:49.8	grown men who wish they still had their four skins,
0:53.0	and even teens struggling with their bodies.
0:56.4	He told us about this one teenager who came to him asking to get cut
1:00.7	because the other guys at school were teasing him for being un-circumcised.
1:05.2	And Andrew was like, dude, it's not about the four skin.
1:09.7	They're teasing you.
1:11.4	They're not going to stop teasing you if you have a circumcision.
1:13.8	Did you really tell him that?
1:15.4	Yeah, because I do believe that.
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