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Interesting reply. The study I cited, the original from Taddio et al in 1995, had approximately 60 boys. What you are referring to is their replicated study from 1997 that confirmed the same findings with a larger cohort of 87 infants, and p values below 0·05 (highly significant). This kind of study was deemed unethical later on, but animal studies confirmed similar findings. I never claimed that I knew what happened to your son. Just that many researchers have established over the last 30+ years that circumcision incurs permanent changes to the neuronal and hormonal balance of boys and future men. If you have the heart, and intellectual integrity, I'd suggest a read of Dr Ron Goldman's "Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma". You can justify your act all you want, but I will maintain on my side that the male foreskin isn't a birth defect and bodily autonomy is a universal human right.