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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe current rate in the US is close 50/50.

So while boomer parents cannot fathom choosing not to circumcise, and most of the children were circumcised, the US is a different place now.  Lots of people are making more educated choses about healthcare vs the old thinking of "it looks funny/gross" if you don't circumcise. Plus more immigration.  The 1970s-90s practice norms are dying.  So while you personally may think it looks weird or girls won't like it, or some of the other dumb reasons since it was the norm in your generation- that will not the experience and opinions of the next generation of teens that are now young children. 
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I think this is a good point. Boomer and older Gen X women might thinks an uncut guy is "weird." But, younger women have probably experienced both worlds, and don't have a hangup about it, one way or the other.

It's just an odd old American practice that is dying out. [/quote]

If the current rate in the us is 50-50, it is skewed by the number of Hispanic births. Truly. The large majority of white male babies in the DMV are circumcised. In very liberal/hippie circles it is closer to 50-50 [/quote] I wonder what it is about white people in the US (and to a lesser extent, Australia), that causes them to be an outlier when compared to even the countries that we're closest to culturally (e.g., Canada and the UK). Canada is especially striking, because they have a much lower circumcision rate than the US, even though they're culturally, economically and religiously very similar to us. Countries in Europe have circumcision rates in the single digits.

[b]What was the driving cause that made white Americans diverge so much from white people in the rest of the world[/b]?  [/quote]
It was promoted in the latter part of the 19th century as a somewhat cure for all that ails you. Including self pleasure. Look it up-it's very interesting how normal human anatomy became pathologized.[/quote]

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465026532/ref=ox_sc_act_title_33?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1[/quote]

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