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I believe the rate has been dropping steadily, though. I sure as hell didn't do it to my son. Not my right to make that decision for him.

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the proportion of infant boys circumcised in the United States between 1979 and 2010 dropped from sixty-five per cent to fifty-eight, according to the C.D.C.

And there's HUGE regional variation, the practice being very rare in the southwest and very common in the northeast.

I can say from personal experience, I'm in the midwest and in my entire dating career, I've only encountered two women with prior knowledge of natural men, and both of them had spent time in Europe.

So if the rate is indeed dropping here, it's happening in a younger segment of the population. (Good for them!)

I don't have a ready source, but I thought somewhere there were numbers for 2010-2020 and it was a more significant change. Like there has been a significant change in attitudes over the last 10 years.

I'm in Israel and didn't do it to my son. I was a bit nervous about that because well... Israel. He'll be ostracized for it...

Then I talked with his kindergarten teacher and "warned" her about his penis so she'll be "ready". She looked at me dead in the eye and said: "This is Tel Aviv, half the boys here aren't circumcised". Lol. I guess I'm not too special.

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