Cut the Penis, Cut the Risk: Why Circumcision Is A Good Choice

Jesse Bering, PhD, is regular contributor to Scientific American, Slate, and other publications. He is the author of the recently released book, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections on Being Human and The Belief Instinct, which the American Library Association named one of the “25 Best Books of 2011.” You can find him here.

For the past seven years, I’ve been in an "interpenile relationship"---I, the lesser of the two you might say, am circumcised; my partner is not. This co