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I thought maybe it wasn't done much anymore even here in the US, but was recently talking to our neighbor (who is not in anyway Jewish) and he mentioned that they just had their son circumcised at ~1Year old. I almost asked "why?" but held my tongue.

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It's mostly driven by inertia started with US moral panic and not related to any sort of Jewish pushed or trying to be agenda (the procedure was incorrectly believed to be a masturbation deterrent). A good paper on the topic: https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

But yes, I agree with the other commenters that the only real reason it continues is it's a billable service from the hospitals, so easy low risk of complication procedure they can tack onto the bill.

Phimosis still exists, and does affect a minority of boys. It's the official medical reason to do it.

True but that would be a procedure ordered up in response to the condition. We're talking about a majority of neonates getting cut without that underlying condition.

I didn't know what phimosis was, so I looked it up. For others:

”phimosis: A condition in which tight foreskin can't be pulled back over the head of the penis. Tight foreskin is normal in an uncircumcised child. It often goes away over time with regular, gentle retraction."

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