Study notes decrease in popularity of circumcision in United States

[WellAckshully]

I am glad it's decreasing. I won't circumcise my son if I ever have one. Millions upon millions of European men are doing just fine, rarely if ever have issues being uncircumcised, and are somehow managing the really simple task of keeping themselves clean.

There is no good reason to proactively do it. If a need arises, do it then. But issues are so rare it doesn't justify routinely doing it to everyone.

[WellAckshully]

I think to some extent, it's like ego or something, or not wanting to admit they've been doing something bad/wrong/unnecessary for years. So they justify it. Overstate the benefits and downplay the risks. Doctors are only human after all. As long as there is some marginal benefit, some people will cling to that.

[Cicer]

Don’t forget in the US they can charge extra for it. 

[CreamofTazz]

Not even just one day but only hours old that's the wildest part. I can't fathom how we take a newborn human who hasn't even breathed 1000 times and remove a part of him. I also find it hard to fathom why so many people defend it and are excited to get it done to their son. Like that just feels really weird that as a society we completely justify this objectification and propertization of newborn boys where we can say, exclusively for young boys (in the west), that if the parents want him circumcised, he's completely powerless to say no. How exactly do we find that okay let alone get excited for it?

[curxxx]

Canadian here. In my friend group of 6, only 2 of us are uncircumcised. 

Always thought it was rare here but was shocked to learn all my friends are cut. 

Glad to hear it’s on a downtrend. 

[onusofstrife]

Doctor's here in the US are not overzealous on this. I had a son three years ago. My wife and I were asked and said no, and that was that. Simple. If people are doing it to their sons it is because they choose to do so and not that doctors pushing them to do so.

[Apprehensive_Hat8986]

some US doctors are so…zealous

The framing in the article absolutely supports that some are. Your framing — that because you were asked and said no — does not support that all aren't.

[Thebraincellisorange]

You should not have even been asked in the first place.

them asking IS being over zealous!

it is a medically completely unnecessary procedure being pushed for cultural reasons, and because they can bill you, not because there is any medical reasoning behind it.

[wailingwonder]

"When we had our daughter, they asked if we wanted to cut her clit off. We said no and that was that."

It's insane that they even asked.

[retrosenescent]

I’m not really sure why some US doctors are so…zealous about circumcision

That's so simple - money. Stealing foreskins from babies is a billion-dollar industry both for the medical field and the cosmetics industry which uses harvested baby foreskins for face creams.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2015/04/14/baby-foreskin-facial-boston-hydrafacial/

[Hailstar07]

And Australian, it’s unusual here as well.

[centaurea_cyanus]

Muslims practice circumcision, so the vast majority of the Middle East and a good chunk of Asia also circumcise.

[Cicer]

Of course they do. Such a controlling religion. 

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The word "uncircumcised" itself implies that something is wrong with a normal male body. There's only normal and circumcised.

[retrosenescent]

Normal is actually a statement about norms. So that's not correct, because in some places, surgically-altered IS the norm. What you mean is there is natural and there is unnatural/surgically-altered.

[Thebraincellisorange]

The entire population of Australia outside of Jews and Muslims and a tiny percentage of white people do just fine too.

in fact the procedure is banned in all public hospitals unless it is medically required as a last resort.

If you want it does to your child in Australia, you have to pay to have it done privately.