This explainer looks at adult circumcision, why some men choose the procedure, what recovery involves, and how it may affect sexual experience.

Without social pressure, most people give little thought to male circumcision. This simple surgical procedure removes the foreskin, a hood of skin covering the head of the resting (flaccid) penis. But ...

Voluntary medical male circumcision is one of the most important ways to reduce new HIV infections. The foreskin contains receptors that the HIV virus can attach to, and removing it reduces HIV ...

J.H. Kellogg, cereal mogul, believed circumcision was a sure-fire cure for masturbation—particularly if the surgery was performed without chloroform so the boy could feel it. In the 1870s, his and ...

A device invented by Jianzhong Shang, a Chinese inventor from Wuhu City, is poised to become not only a new generation mohel-assist device, but a major medgadget in the world wide fight to prevent HIV ...