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'Circumcision season': Philippine rite puts boys under pressure

The Philippines has one of the highest rates of male circumcision in the world. [AFP]

A row of boys lying on newsprint-covered tables howl in pain and grit their teeth as part of "circumcision season" in the Philippines, when thousands of youngsters suffer through the procedure en masse.

The removal of foreskins is a centuries-old rite of passage to adulthood in the country, which has one of the highest rates of male circumcision in the world.

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