People, it's jut an unsightly flab of useless skin. Stop acting like removing it is the end of the world.
The foreskin is a protective piece of skin that contains anywhere from one third to almost a half of total penile skin and can contain around 20,000 to 70,000 receptor nerves. Removing it does have serious ramifications where sex health is concerned.
Wanna guess how many white blood cells there are in your tonsils? Big numbers don't necessarily mean importance. Not to say tonsils are
useless, but rather that saying something that sounds impressive and providing evidence of the importance are not the same thing.
It's frustrating to read this thread (and the last few discussions we've had on the topic), because I'm sure there are some good arguments against it. I've been looking for the original article that was the source for the OP's link, but I've been having trouble finding it. It's definitely necessary, because the news article has definite spin; quotes like, "It's a small difference, but a significant one" are the sort of thing that, while technically correct (because significance is a measure of statistical reliability), are likely to be misinterpreted by most casual readers. I think I found an entry on Web of Science, but it's a fairly old article with no citations that's been cited by no one (read: probably, it's bullshit), and the links to the article proper were dead, so I couldn't really do much with it. The actual source would be great. If it's come up earlier in the thread, I apologize for missing it.
Most of what I see in these discussions, when it comes to opposing circumcision, are appeals to emotion ("How can you possibly support genital mutilation?"), premature claims about a parent's rights (all of which assume it's agreed that circumcision is a Bad Thing because they point out, quite rightly, that limits can be placed on objectively wrong parental actions), and arguments from contextless data. I don't think we're going to have many interesting discussions while that's the case. Yeah, I get that it's an emotional issue for you, but it isn't for most of the people you're trying to convince so you're probably not going to get anywhere by getting upset at me for looking for something rational.