The American Academy of Pediatrics says: br br Role of Hygienebr br "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimum penile hygiene."br br STDs including HIVbr br "behavioral factors appear to be far more important than circumcision status."br br Penile Cancerbr br "in a developed country such as the United States, penile cancer is a rare disease and the risk of penile cancer developing in an uncircumcised man, although increased compared with a circumcised man, is low."br br Ethicsbr br Of course here, they hedge and say while even though cutting off part of your baby's genitalia "is not essential to the child's current well-being" they are perfectly fine with parents and doctors using cultural tradition as justification. This report is also the first time the AAP has acknowledged(after decades of doctors mindlessly repeating the belief that babies don't feel significant pain) that circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic and if circumcision is to be done, anesthesia should be used.