Taryn, As you have discussed, female genital mutilation, there is ritual male infant circumcision. Infant circumcision has more benefits than harm. Some religions like Islamism and Judaism, traditionally practice infant circumcision which is opposed by many human rights organizations (Jacobs, & Arora, 2015). Performing circumcision in adults or adolescents has more serious complications. Infant circumcision shows a decrease in sexually transmitted diseases, cancer of the penis and HIV transmission (Bester, 2015). Nurses should advocate policies to promote education among these cultures to perform their traditional infant circumcision by the trained providers to reduce infection and sterility. This shows respect to their practices as well
