Talk:Views on circumcision

England or the United Kingdom

I would be interested in a section covering this group. There's a lot of history of circumcision in England. It's interesting to me how the surgery was popular since around Victorian times and was even brought to other countries from England but then it later fell out of favor.

Both my attempts at creating this section were deleted, if someone else wants to try I would find it interesting and maybe it can improve this stub article. GlowingLava (talk) 07:03, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Well it would be the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or more commonly the United Kingdom or just (Great) Britain. Sources such as

• Houck JA. Robert Darby, A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-226-13645-5. $35.00 (hardback). The British Journal for the History of Science. 2007;40(3):450-452. doi:10.1017/S0007087407000180

might come into play. But that would be at History of circumcision, not here. Bon courage (talk) 07:13, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

See also

There is no need to add a couple (from the many) of links to other circumcision article to a WP:SEEALSO, and especially not links to redirects, since the circumcision template at the foot of page links to them all (navigation is also available via the category mechanism). Bon courage (talk) 07:53, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Innapropriate photos

The photos of the Druze child and the Yao children preparing for circumcision is innapropriate Frozenlakes12 (talk) 02:49, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Explain why, please. We can't take any action here without some explanation. MrOllie (talk) 02:53, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not censored. For more details please read WP:NOTCENSORED. UrielAcosta (talk) 02:55, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Not specific to these photo's but for all of them; there seems to be no indication (and in most cases no possibility of it) that the subjects have agreed to have this private part of their life highlighted on Wikipedia. While for e.g. the Druze photo recognisability of the child is near zero, for e.g. the lead photo this is clearly not the case. It seems to be a WP:BLP problem that we show the world that these persons are supposedly circumcized without knowing if they want this to be so widely publicized. Fram (talk) 08:16, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Traditional Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Condemnations should be included.

The Roman Catholics banned its practice at the Council of Florence, and the Oriental orthodox banned it in 1086 (Canons of Cyril II.)

For Eastern Orthodox, there is Byzantine Law; “Roman citizens who suffer that they themselves or their slaves be circumcised in accordance with the Jewish custom, are exiled perpetually to an island and their property confiscated; the doctors suffer capital punishment. If Jews shall circumcise purchased slaves of another nation, they shall be banished or suffer capital punishment.” - St Justinian

As well as major teachers;

"But someone might say: “Is there so much harm in circumcision that it makes Christ’s whole plan of redemption useless? Yes, the harm of circumcision is as great as that..." - St. John Chrysostom

“it is unnecessary and indeed unlawful for the faithful to be circumcised” – Venerable Bede (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) ~2026-35603-38 (talk) 14:34, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

In Catholicism, Aquinas taught that continuing to practice circumcision after the coming of Christ is an act of heresy and a denial of the Christian faith in the Summa Theologiae (Tertia Pars, Question 70).

"It commands all who glory in the name of Christian, at whatever time, before or after baptism, to cease entirely from circumcision, since, whether or not one places hope in it, it cannot be observed at all without the loss of eternal salvation." -The Council in Florence

The Catechism of the Catholic Church permits amputations or mutilations, including circumcision, only for strictly therapeutic medical reasons - not cultural or aesthetic reasons. ~2026-35603-38 (talk) 16:19, 25 June 2026 (UTC)