birbhadra, for your kind information uptodate.com is site of evidence based medicine and its not only endorses American medical societies but endorses all the medical journals that are published world wide and they update the protocol .Uptodate in other terms is medical encylopedia which is updated every month with all disease process. what The F UC is worng with u too? I told u to give one evidence based practise and u r giving me the site http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org and saying let the sajhaites decide. one more thing I don't have to take benefit of doubt from you regarding my profession, who r u? to give me the benefit of doubt. I don't have any intentions to come and boost my self regarding my Profession,neither i am believing regarding circumcision due to my faith ( neither i am jews or muslim) , I am believing due to medical protoco and studiesl. Now u need my answer regarding female circumcision , there are four different types of female circumcision and all have different complications and is not endorsed coz female they don' t have prepuce or foreskin.