When my older son was born 11 years ago I sort of took it for
granted that he'd be circumcised. After all, I had never until then met
a penis that wasn't. But his father had a different idea, basically
presenting the question: why?
To that I had no answer. And apparently I am not alone: the U.S. circumcision rate has been dropping steadily since reaching a peak at nearly 90 percent in the early
1960s, and by 2004, the most recent year for
which government figures are available, about 57 percent of all male
newborns delivered in hospitals were circumcised. In some states, the
rate is well below 50 percent. Worldwide, about one in three males are circumcised.
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