Circumcision

[Bengalzona]

(01-19-2016, 04:27 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Tha numbers Benton pasted have a little truth behind them, but many of them ar gross exaggerations.  The circumcision rate in the United States is still close to 80%.

But you are correct that it will become more and more accepted.  

The current high rate of circumcision in the U.S. is just a continuation of a post-World War II "fad". Prior to WWII, I've read that very few non-Jewish people were circumcised. This was true for many places in Europe as well (especially Germany where checking to see if a person was circumcised was one way of 'discovering' if they were a Jew).

I'm not sure what exactly happened in WWII to change peoples thinking. I read one story about the U.S. Army forcing 150,000 men, particularly black soldiers, to get circumcisions because they were unhygienic and to 'avoid disease'. As much history as I've read, I have never found anything that confirms or even supports that story. That said, though, a lot of soldiers came back from the war with the notion that being circumcised was more hygienic than not being circumcised. As a result, the practice took off with the baby boom.

Personally, I suspect that some unhygienic, nastyass soldiers from backwoods all over the country were exposed to other people from other places for the first time and came to realize that some of the Jewish guys never suffered from cold sores and 1/2 inch thick mold dripping off their schlong all of the time (having also never been exposed to the practice of washing the darn thing off after uses). I'm sure their wives and girlfriends might have thought that was a good practice too.