New York Proposes Consent Waiver for Circumcision Ritual Associated With Herpes

June 13, 2012, 12:30 pm by New York Times - Health

Parents would have to acknowledge that they understood the risk of herpes infection from the ritual, in which an adult male uses his mouth to suck blood from the circumcision wound.

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