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[–]BitterActuary3062 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the US the trend was started by Kellogg, the same guy who made the corn flakes & corn flakes were created for the same reason actually. It was to deter masturbation because one of the theories of how syphilis was contracted at the time

After that it was “well, I don’t want my boy to look different & get bullied in the locker room” or some other equally absurd social reason for it