The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may suggest routine circumcision for every baby boy born in the US as male circumcision can diminish a man's risk of contracting HIV by no less than 50 per cent.

Dr. Ronald Gray said, "We definitively know that circumcision reduces male H. I. V. acquisition by at least 50 percent and probably more."

The foreskin contains HIV target cells and is easily abraded during sex, which boosts infection.

But, the "intactivists" are resisting the potential move as they think that circumcision is "mutilation"; and families related to baby boys have no right to take such decisions.

It may be noted here that around 80 per cent of American men are already circumcised, and leading a fine life.

In addition, many experts are of the view that sensitive foreskin stimulates masturbation, which in turn leads to insanity and therapeutic circumcision can cure young men of masturbatory insanity.

Nevertheless, some traditional leaders are insisting that male circumcision is a religious matter.