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==Loss of popularity== | ==Loss of popularity== | ||
Harmful, non-therapeutic circumcision of the newborn in the [[United States]] hit its peak in 1965 and has been slowly but continuously declining in popularity ever since. | Harmful, non-therapeutic circumcision of the newborn in the [[United States]] hit its peak in 1965<ref name="laumann1997">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Laumann | |||
|first=Edward O. | |||
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|last2=Masi | |||
|first2=christopher M. | |||
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|last3=Zuckerman | |||
|first3=Ezra W. | |||
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|title=Circumcision in the United States | |||
|journal=JAMA | |||
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|date=1997-04-02 | |||
|volume=277 | |||
|issue=13 | |||
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|pages=1052-7 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/ | |||
|pubmedID=9091693 | |||
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|accessdate=2025-10-17 | |||
}}</ref> and has been slowly but continuously declining in popularity ever since.<ref name="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Jacobson | |||
|first=Deborah L. | |||
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|last2=Balmert | |||
|first2=Lauren C. | |||
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|last3=Holl | |||
|first3=Jane L. | |||
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|last4=Rosoklija | |||
|first4=Ilina | |||
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|last5=Davis | |||
|first5=Matthew M. | |||
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|last6=Johnson | |||
|first6Emilie K. | |||
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|title=Nationwide Circumcision Trends: 2003 to 2016 | |||
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|journal=J Urol | |||
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|date=2021-01 | |||
|volume=205 | |||
|issue=1 | |||
|pages=257-63 | |||
|url=https://www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1097/JU.0000000000001316 | |||
|pubmedID=32716676 | |||
|DOI=10.1097/JU.0000000000001316 | |||
|accessdate=2025-10-17 | |||
}}</ref> 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 | |||
|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/less-than-half-of-us-boys-now-circumcised/ar-AA1MBjzN | |||
|last=Anonymous | |||
|publisher=Microsoft Network | |||
|website= | |||
|date=2025-10-17 | |||
|accessdate=2025-09-29 | |||
|quote=From 2012 to 2022, the prevalence of circumcision during hospitalization of male neonates age 0 to 28 days decreased significantly by nearly 5 percentage points, from 54.1% to 49.3%, | |||
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