054: Circumcision, with Adrienne Carmack

Birthful

English - February 10, 2016 19:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB
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Circumcising baby boys has become a “standard of normalcy”, but can it really be that the bodies of half the population are defective? Is there no purpose to the foreskin? Do the benefits truly outweigh the risks? How complicated is it to take care of an intact penis? Urologist Dr. Adrienne Carmack tells us more.