What I was trying to get across is that while the individual cases are real and serious the numbers are small enough to be insignificant. So while your reasons against circumcision are valid, the chances of complications are so small that you aren't actually making any meaningful difference.

Putting it another way, your chances of dying or being seriously injured in a road accident are much, much greater, but anyone who said they were taking public transport for safety reasons would be looked at strangely.

Sorry, the hygiene argument was simply trying to say that the causes of mental illness don't necessarily have anything to do with the form that they take. The only information I had on the guys trying to regrow their foreskins suggested that there were no complications with their circumcisions, they just wished it hadn't been done.

The vaccination comment wasn't framed the best, it is an issue that is worth feeling strongly about.