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The United States is unique in having a [[circumcision industry]] that aggressively promotes the practice of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic, harmful infant [[circumcision]]. The decline of the unnecessary practice has been slowed by payments for unnecessary circumcision by various government heath programs and by continual encouragement and promotion of circumcision by the [[circumcision industry]].  However, the practice of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys is now in gradual decline.
The United States is unique in having a [[circumcision industry]] that aggressively promotes the practice of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic, harmful, infant [[circumcision]]. The decline of the unnecessary practice has been slowed by payments for unnecessary circumcision by various government heath programs and by continual encouragement and promotion of circumcision by the [[circumcision industry]].  However, the practice of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of newborn boys has been in gradual decline for several decades.


Despite the financially self-serving promotional efforts of the [[circumcision industry]], the incidence of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of infant boys was reported to have continued its slow decline to 52.1 percent in 2016.<ref name="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal
Despite the financially self-serving promotional efforts of the [[circumcision industry]], Jacobson et al. (2021) reported the incidence of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of newborn infant boys was reported to have continued its slow decline to 52.1 percent in 2016.<ref name="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal
  |last=Jacobson
  |last=Jacobson
  |first=Deborah L.
  |first=Deborah L.
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  |DOI=10.1097/JU.0000000000001316
  |accessdate=2021-10-15
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}}</ref>
}}</ref> Yang et al. (2025) reported the incidenec of circumcision of the newborn had declined to 49.3 percent in 2022, making non-circumcision or [[intactness]] the new NORM among America's newborn boys. Yang et al. studied a ten-ear period during which the incidence of circumcision declined at a rate of 0.5% per year.<ref name="yang2025">{{REFjournal
 
  |last=Yang
==History==
|first=
===Colonial and early 19th century===
|init=P
Jews have lived in America since before the Revolutionary War. They have always practiced [[Jewish circumcision| ritual circumcision]], ([[Brit Milah]]), of boys on the eighth day of life in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], however this was only for a very small percentage of the population.<ref name="self2016">{{REFjournal
|author-link=
  |url=https://journals.troy.edu/index.php/test/article/view/386/302
  |last2=Zhu
  |title=The Rise of Circumcision in Victorian America
  |first2=
  |first=Eleanor
  |init2=X
  |last=Self
  |author2-link=
  |author-link=Eleanor Self
  |last3=Patel
  |journal=The Alexandrian
|first3=
  |volume=5
|init3=EU
  |issue=1
  |author3-link=
  |date=2016
  |last4=Quin
  |accessdate=2022-09-02
  |first4=
  |format=PDF
  |init4=PC
}}
|author4-link=
</ref>
|last5=Grabowski
 
|first5=
One may be certain that the eighteenth century [https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/founding-fathers/ Founding Fathers of the United States] of America were men with [[intact]] [[foreskin]]s as were the [[foreskinned]] men who fought the American Civil War (1861-1865).
|init5=MK
 
|author5-link=
Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of males for non-religious reasons originated with [[Claude François Lallemand]] in 1836 in France but soon spread to the [[United Kingdom]] in the early nineteenth century, from which it eventually spread to other English-speaking nations.<ref name="hodges1997">[[Frederick M. Hodges| Hodges FM]]. [https://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/_Textual/GeorgeCDenniston-MarilynFayreMilos-editors_JamesDeMeo_SexualMutilations-AHumanTragedy_1997_235pp/GeorgeCDenniston-MarilynFayreMilos-editors_JamesDeMeo_SexualMutilations-AHumanTragedy_1997_235pp.pdf#page=28 A short history of the institutionalization of involuntary sexual mutilations in the United States]. in: Denniston GC, Milos MF (eds.), Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy (New York: Plenum Publishing, 1997), pp. 17-40. (ISBN 0-306-45589-7)</ref>
  |last6=Tobian
 
|first6=
Edward Dixon (1847) recommended circumcision to prevent the spread of syphilis.<ref name="self2016" />
|init6=AAR
 
|author6-link=Aaron Tobian
===Late nineteenth century===
|etal=no
====First quarter====
|title=Trends in Circumcision Among Newborn Males in the US
The late nineteenth century was characterized by prominent medical doctors advancing all sorts of absurd reasons for the performance of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], including the prevention of venereal disease.<ref name="self2016" />
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|location=
|date=2025-09-15
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|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2838312
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|pubmedID=40952753
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|DOI=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.2464
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The first recorded non-religious circumcision of a boy in the United States occurred in 1870 when [[Lewis Albert Sayre]], a prominent New York City doctor, [[circumcised]] a boy of five years of age for paralysis.<ref name="gollaher1994">{{GollaherDL 1994}}</ref> [[Lewis Albert Sayre|Sayre]] then continued to advocate circumcision for numerous reasons until his death in 1900. According to [[Lewis Albert Sayre|Sayre]], circumcision was recommended for paralysis, epilepsy, hernia, lunacy, curvature of the spine, and clubfoot.
The United States is unusual among nations in that osteopathic physicians (DOs) enjoy equal standing with allopathic physicians (MDs)<ref>{{REFweb
 
|url=https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/aoa-and-ama-stand-against-misrepresentation-osteopathic-physicians#:~:text=The%20American%20Osteopathic%20Association%20%28AOA%29%20and%20the%20American,of%20osteopathic%20medicine%20by%20media%2C%20celebrities%20and%20companies.
[[M. J. Moses]] (1871) advocated [[circumcision]] to prevent [[masturbation]].<ref name="moses1871">{{Moses1871}}</ref>
|title=AOA and AMA stand against misrepresentation of osteopathic physicians
====Second quarter====
|last=Anonymous
[[H. H. Kane]] (1879) 'discovers' that [[circumcision]] cures nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia.<ref>{{Kane1879}}</ref>
|first=
|init=
|author-link=
|publisher=American Medical Association
|date=2020-11-04
|accessdate=2026-03-22
}}</ref> Osteopathic physicians observe four [[Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine]] in their practice.
 
==History==
===Colonial and early 19th century===
Jews have lived in America since before the Revolutionary War. They have always practiced [[Jewish circumcision| ritual circumcision]], ([[Brit Milah]]), of boys on the eighth day of life in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], however this was only for a very small percentage of the population.<ref name="self2016">{{REFjournal
|url=https://journals.troy.edu/index.php/test/article/view/386/302
|title=The Rise of Circumcision in Victorian America
|first=Eleanor
|last=Self
|author-link=Eleanor Self
|journal=The Alexandrian
|volume=5
|issue=1
|date=2016
|accessdate=2022-09-02
|format=PDF
}}
</ref>
 
One may be certain that the eighteenth century [https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/founding-fathers/ Founding Fathers of the United States] of America were men with [[intact]] [[foreskin]]s as were the [[foreskinned]] men who fought the American Civil War (1861-1865).
 
Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of males for non-religious reasons originated with [[Claude François Lallemand]] in 1836 in France but soon spread to the [[United Kingdom]] in the early nineteenth century, from which it eventually spread to other English-speaking nations.<ref name="hodges1997">[[Frederick M. Hodges| Hodges FM]]. [https://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/_Textual/GeorgeCDenniston-MarilynFayreMilos-editors_JamesDeMeo_SexualMutilations-AHumanTragedy_1997_235pp/GeorgeCDenniston-MarilynFayreMilos-editors_JamesDeMeo_SexualMutilations-AHumanTragedy_1997_235pp.pdf#page=28 A short history of the institutionalization of involuntary sexual mutilations in the United States]. in: Denniston GC, Milos MF (eds.), Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy (New York: Plenum Publishing, 1997), pp. 17-40. (ISBN 0-306-45589-7)</ref>
 
Edward Dixon (1847) recommended circumcision to prevent the spread of syphilis.<ref name="self2016" />
 
===Late nineteenth century===
====First quarter====
The late nineteenth century was characterized by prominent medical doctors advancing all sorts of absurd reasons for the performance of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], including the prevention of venereal disease.<ref name="self2016" />
 
The first recorded non-religious circumcision of a boy in the United States occurred in 1870 when [[Lewis Albert Sayre]], a prominent New York City doctor, [[circumcised]] a boy of five years of age for paralysis.<ref name="gollaher1994">{{GollaherDL 1994}}</ref> [[Lewis Albert Sayre|Sayre]] then continued to advocate circumcision for numerous reasons until his death in 1900. According to [[Lewis Albert Sayre|Sayre]], circumcision was recommended for paralysis, epilepsy, hernia, lunacy, curvature of the spine, and clubfoot.
 
[[M. J. Moses]] (1871) advocated [[circumcision]] to prevent [[masturbation]].<ref name="moses1871">{{Moses1871}}</ref>
====Second quarter====
[[H. H. Kane]] (1879) 'discovers' that [[circumcision]] cures nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia.<ref>{{Kane1879}}</ref>


Seventh-day Adventist [[John Harvey Kellogg]], {{MD}}, of Battle Creek, Michigan, was an important 19th century promoter of male circumcision. Although masturbation is never mentioned in the Bible, Dr. Kellogg believed that [[masturbation]] was immoral, sinful, and caused one to dream "impure dreams", which he believed was harmful to the mental faculties, resulting in mental disorders, such as "feeblemindness".<ref name="kellogg1888">{{Kellogg1888}}</ref> He believed that the urge to masturbate could be prevented by eating bland foods, for which purpose, he and his brother invented corn flakes.<ref name="self2016" />
Seventh-day Adventist [[John Harvey Kellogg]], {{MD}}, of Battle Creek, Michigan, was an important 19th century promoter of male circumcision. Although masturbation is never mentioned in the Bible, Dr. Kellogg believed that [[masturbation]] was immoral, sinful, and caused one to dream "impure dreams", which he believed was harmful to the mental faculties, resulting in mental disorders, such as "feeblemindness".<ref name="kellogg1888">{{Kellogg1888}}</ref> He believed that the urge to masturbate could be prevented by eating bland foods, for which purpose, he and his brother invented corn flakes.<ref name="self2016" />
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The infamous [[Nebus v. Hironimus]] Florida [[circumcision]] case culminated after five years of litigation with Florida Family Court Judge [[Jeffrey Dana Gillen]] arrested the mother, [[Heather Hironimus]], and forced her to sign a consent for harmful, [[pain| painful]] circumcision in open court while handcuffed.
The infamous [[Nebus v. Hironimus]] Florida [[circumcision]] case culminated after five years of litigation with Florida Family Court Judge [[Jeffrey Dana Gillen]] arrested the mother, [[Heather Hironimus]], and forced her to sign a consent for harmful, [[pain| painful]] circumcision in open court while handcuffed.
====Heather Hironimus signs consent form for circumcision of 4 and 1/2 year old son under extreme duress====
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<b>Heather Hironimus signs consent form for circumcision of 4 and 1/2 year old son under extreme duress</b>
<youtube>Btxl4UGBdpc</youtube>
<youtube>Btxl4UGBdpc</youtube>


[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] commissioned a [https://www,doctorsopposingcircumcision.org new website] in 2016.
[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] commissioned a [https://www,doctorsopposingcircumcision.org new website] in 2016.
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The ill-fated 2012 [[AAP]] Circumcision Policy Statement expired on August 31, 2017 in accordance with AAP policy, because it was not reaffirmed. The AAP has had ''no'' official circumcision policy since that time.  
The ill-fated, embarrassing 2012 [[AAP]] Circumcision Policy Statement expired on August 31, 2017 in accordance with AAP policy, because it was not reaffirmed. The AAP has had ''no'' official circumcision policy since that time.  
 
[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] released a special report on circumcision for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.<ref name="doc2019">{{REFdocument
|title=Male Circumcision: A special report to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
|url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/w/images/Male_Circumcision_DOC_2019-02-01.pdf
|contribution=
|last=Anonymous
|first=
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision
|format=PDF
|date=2019-02-01
|accessdate=2025-12-08
}}</ref>


[[Dan Bollinger|Bollinger]] (2019) discussed circumcision as an adverse childhood experience,<ref name-"bollinger2019">{{REFdocument
[[Dan Bollinger|Bollinger]] (2019) discussed circumcision as an adverse childhood experience,<ref name-"bollinger2019">{{REFdocument
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  |quote=
}}</ref> Numerous studies have demonstrated that [[adult circumcision]] is not effective in preventing [[HIV]] [[infection]]. Child [[circumcision]] had previously been discontinued.
}}</ref> Numerous studies have demonstrated that [[adult circumcision]] is not effective in preventing [[HIV]] [[infection]]. Child [[circumcision]] had previously been discontinued.
[[Intact America]] (2024) is tracking the opposition to [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]]. It reports [https://www.instagram.com/p/DKVZQGTRl77/ steadily increasing opposition] to [[child circumcision]].


President Donald J. Trump appointment of [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]] to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services was approved by the United States Senate was ratified by the United States Senate on 13 February 2025. Kennedy wants to reform healthcare in the United States.
President Donald J. Trump appointment of [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]] to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services was approved by the United States Senate was ratified by the United States Senate on 13 February 2025. Kennedy wants to reform healthcare in the United States.
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[[Jake Tran]] has produced a [[This should be a crime| video]] about the practice of child [[circumcision]] in the United States.
[[Jake Tran]] has produced a [[This should be a crime| video]] about the practice of [[child circumcision]] in the United States.


In a milestone for [[intactivism]], Microsoft Network (MSN) reported that the incidence of child circumcision in the United States has declined below 50 percent, which makes non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] the new <b>NORM</b> in the United States among newborn boys.<ref>{{REFnews
In a milestone for [[intactivism]], Microsoft Network (MSN) reported that the incidence of [[child circumcision]] in the United States has declined below 50 percent, which makes non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] the new <b>NORM</b> in the United States among newborn boys.<ref name="msn2025">{{REFnews
  |title=Less Than Half of U.S. Boys Now Circumcised
  |title=Less Than Half of U.S. Boys Now Circumcised
  |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/less-than-half-of-us-boys-now-circumcised/ar-AA1MBjzN
  |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/less-than-half-of-us-boys-now-circumcised/ar-AA1MBjzN
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One should also note that the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] [[medical trade association]] vacated its fraudulent 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement by allowing it to expire in 2017 without being re-affirmed.
One should also note that the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] [[medical trade association]] vacated its fraudulent 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement by allowing it to expire in 2017 without being re-affirmed.


[https://150.jhu.edu/ Johns Hopkins University] and the Jewish-funded [https://publichealth.jhu.edu/ Bloomberg School of Public Health] have long been outlier advocates of male [[circumcision]]. However, they (2025) are now reporting that the incidence of circumcision has declined "significantly" between 2012 and 2022. The overall decline was from 54.1% to 49.3% — a decline of 4.8 percentage points. The 4.8 percentage point represents a decline of 8.8 percent (4.8/54.1 = 8.8%)<ref name="yang2025">{{REFjournal
[https://150.jhu.edu/ Johns Hopkins University] and the Jewish-funded [https://publichealth.jhu.edu/ Bloomberg School of Public Health] have long been outlier advocates of male [[circumcision]]. However, they (2025) are now reporting that the incidence of circumcision has declined "significantly" between 2012 and 2022. The overall decline was from 54.1% to 49.3% — a decline of 4.8 percentage points or 0.048 precentage points per year. The 4.8 percentage point represents a decline of 8.8 percent (4.8/54.1 = 8.8%)<ref name="yang2025" /> Although the incidence of [[circumcision of the newborn]] has been gradually declining for decades, this is the first study to report an overall incidence of less than fifty percent. Based on this new information, we can now report that [[intactness]] is now the NORM among the newborn boys of America. We note that [[Australia]] reported a significant improvement in child health when the incidence of circumcision declined in that nation.<ref>{{REFweb
  |last=Yang
|url=https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children-in-brief/summary
|title=Australia’s children: in brief
  |last=Anonymous
  |first=
  |first=
  |init=P
  |init=
  |author-link=
  |author-link=
  |last2=Zhu
  |publisher=Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  |first2=
  |pubmedID=
  |init2=X
  ISBN=978-1-76054-659-5
  |author2-link=
  |DOI=10.25816/5e152818d082c
  |last3=Patel
  |date=2019-12-17
  |first3=
  |accessdate=2025-09-17
|init3=EU
}}</ref> Any circumcisions performed after the newborn period would not be captured by these statistics.
|author3-link=
 
|last4=Quin
====Midwest====
  |first4=
The Midwest has been called the 'circumcision capital of America' because of its higher rates of circumcision. Nevertheless, the popularity of circumcision is declining even in the Midwest.
  |init4=PC
 
  |author4-link=
In the Midwest, the incidence of [[circumcision]] has declined to 75 percent, which translates to a [[genital integrity]] rate increase to 25 percent or 1 in 4 boys having an [[intact]] foreskin.<ref name="jacobson2021" /> The previous report from 2010 was one boy in five being intact,<ref name="bollinger2017" /> and before that it was 1 in 10 boys being [[intact]], so this in an increase of 250 percent (0.25/0.10 X 100 = 250%) in the rate of [[Intact| intactness]] for the Midwest. The still high incidence of circumcision in the Midwest is counterbalanced by the low incidence in the West.
  |last5=Grabowski
 
  |first5=
=== Intactness is the new norm! ===
  |init5=MK
 
  |author5-link=
[[Intactness]] had previously been shamed in the United States,<ref name="garrett2023-12-21">{{REFweb
  |last6=Tobian
  |url=https://intactamerica.org/foreskin-phobia-intact-penis-shamed/
  |first6=
  |title=Foreskin Phobia: How The Intact Penis Has Been Shamed
  |init6=AAR
  |last=Garrett
  |author6-link=Aaron Tobian
  |first=Connor
  |etal=no
  |init=
  |title=Trends in Circumcision Among Newborn Males in the US
  |author-link=Connor Judson Garrett
  |trans-title=
  |publisher=Intact America
  |language=
  |date=2023-12-21
  |journal=JAMA Pediatrics
  |accessdate=2024-05-15
}}</ref> but that era has ended.
 
[[Intact America]] called attention to the existence of a "tipping point",<ref>{{REFbook
  |last=Gladwell
  |first=Malcomb
  |init=
  |year=2002
  |title=The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Point-Little-Things-Difference/dp/0316346624?s=books
  |scope=
  |location=
  |location=
  |date=2025-09-15
  |publisher=Back Bay Books
|season=
  |pages=301
|volume=
  |ISBN=SBN-10 0316346624
|issue=
  |accessdate=2025-12-01
|article=e252464
}}</ref> when public opinion would shift toward [[intactness]] in 2016.<ref>{{REFweb
|page=
  |url=https://intactamerica.org/do-you-know-about-the-tipping-point/
  |pages=
  |title=Do You Know: About the “Tipping Point?
  |url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2838312
  |last=Chapin
|archived=
  |first=Georganne
|quote=
|pubmedID=40952753
|pubmedCID=12439174
|DOI=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.2464
  |accessdate=2025-09-17
}}</ref> Although the incidence of [[circumcision of the newborn]] has been gradually declining for decades, this is the first study to report an overall incidence of less than fifty percent. Based on this new information, we can now report that [[intactness]] is now the NORM among the newborn boys of America. We note that [[Australia]] reported a significant improvement in child health when the incidence of circumcision declined in that nation.<ref>{{REFweb
  |url=https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children-in-brief/summary
  |title=Australia’s children: in brief
  |last=Anonymous
  |first=
  |init=
  |init=
  |author-link=
  |author-link=Georganne Chapin
  |publisher=Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  |publisher=Intact America
|pubmedID=
  |date=2016-11-01
ISBN=978-1-76054-659-5
  |accessdate=2024-06-03
|DOI=10.25816/5e152818d082c
}}</ref> Public opinion in the United States in 2024 has now reached that tipping point.
  |date=2019-12-17
 
  |accessdate=2025-09-17
The percentage of American boys being [[circumcised]] has been slowly but progressively declining for a long time, while the number of boys with [[intact]] [[foreskin]] has correspondingly increased.<ref name="jacobson2021" /> The percentage of [[intact]] newborn boys has exceeded the percentage of [[circumcised]] newborn boys since 2022.<ref name="yang2025" />
}}</ref> Any circumcisions performed after the newborn period would not be captured by these statistics.


====Midwest====
As the present trend continues, [[intactness]] is becoming the more usual, normal, and expected condition among newborn infant boys in America. The incidence of [[circumcision]] varies geographically so some locations will report higher percentages [[circumcised]].
The Midwest has been called the 'circumcision capital of America' because of its higher rates of circumcision. Nevertheless, the popularity of circumcision is declining even in the Midwest.


In the Midwest, the incidence of [[circumcision]] has declined to 75 percent, which translates to a [[genital integrity]] rate increase to 25 percent or 1 in 4 boys having an [[intact]] foreskin.<ref name="jacobson2021" /> The previous report from 2010 was one boy in five being intact,<ref name="bollinger2017" /> and before that it was 1 in 10 boys being [[intact]], so this in an increase of 250 percent (0.25/0.10 X 100 = 250%) in the rate of [[Intact| intactness]] for the Midwest. The still high incidence of circumcision in the Midwest is counterbalanced by the low incidence in the West.
==Forecast future incidence of child circumcision==


=== Intactness is the new norm ===
The incidence of harmful, unnecessary, nontherapeutic [[circumcision]] of newborn boys declines at the rate of 0.5 of one percentage point per year or one percentage point every two years.<ref name="yang2025" />


[[Intactness]] had previously been shamed in the United States,<ref name="garrett2023-12-21">{{REFweb
Based on this historical rate of decline and assuming that it continues, we can forecast the future incidence of harmful [[child circumcision]] in the United States to be:
|url=https://intactamerica.org/foreskin-phobia-intact-penis-shamed/
|title=Foreskin Phobia: How The Intact Penis Has Been Shamed
|last=Garrett
|first=Connor
|init=
|author-link=Connor Judson Garrett
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2023-12-21
|accessdate=2024-05-15
}}</ref> but that era has ended.


[[Intact America]] called attention to the existence of a "tipping point", when public opinion would shift toward [[intactness]] in 2016.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/do-you-know-about-the-tipping-point/
|title=Do You Know: About the “Tipping Point?
|last=Chapin
|first=Georganne
|init=
|author-link=Georganne Chapin
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2016-11-01
|accessdate=2024-06-03
}}</ref> Public opinion in the United States in 2024 has now reached that tipping point.
The percentage of American boys being [[circumcised]] has been slowly but progressively declining for a long time, while the number of boys with [[intact]] [[foreskin]] has correspondingly increased.<ref name="jacobson2021" /> The percentage of [[intact]] newborn boys now exceeds the percentage of [[circumcised]] newborn boys.<ref name="yang2025" />


As the present trend continues, [[intactness]] is becoming the more usual, normal, and expected condition among newborn infant boys in America. The incidence of [[circumcision]] varies geographically so some location will report higher percentages [[circumcised]].
* 2023: 49.2%
* 2024: 48.7%
* 2025: 48.2%
* 2026: 47.7%
* 2027: 47.2%
* 2028: 46.7%
* 2029: 46.2%
* 2030: 45.7%


==American [[genital integrity]] organizations==
==American [[genital integrity]] organizations==
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  |publisher=Academia
  |publisher=Academia
  |date=2017-05-19
  |date=2017-05-19
  |accessdate=2021-10-21
  |accessdate=2021-10-21
  |format=PDF
  |format=PDF
}}
}}
* {{REFjournal
* {{REFjournal
  |last=Bollinger
  |last=Bollinger
  |init=D
  |init=D
  |author-link=Dan Bollinger
  |author-link=Dan Bollinger
  |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321837170_Origins_of_the_Intactivist_Movement_A_Masculine_Foundation
  |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321837170_Origins_of_the_Intactivist_Movement_A_Masculine_Foundation
  |title=Origins of the intactivist movement: A masculine foundation
  |title=Origins of the intactivist movement: A masculine foundation
  |journal=
  |journal=
  |date=2017-11-17
  |date=2017-11-17
  |accessdate=2021-10-14
  |accessdate=2021-10-14
}}
}}
* {{REFweb
* {{REFweb
  |url=https://intactamerica.org/circumcision-rates/
  |url=https://intactamerica.org/circumcision-rates/
  |title=Circumcision Rates by Country: Why America Is the Outlier
  |title=Circumcision Rates by Country: Why America Is the Outlier
  |last=Alissa
  |last=Alissa
  |first=Kristel
  |first=Kristel
  |init=
  |init=
  |author-link=Kristel Alissa
  |author-link=Kristel Alissa
  |publisher=Intact America
  |publisher=Intact America
  |date=2025-07-03
  |date=2025-07-03
  |accessdate=2025-8-03
  |accessdate=2025-8-03
}}
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