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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.
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Masi
|first2=christopher M.
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Zuckerman
|first3=Ezra W.
|init3=
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision in the United States
|journal=JAMA
|location=
|date=1997-04-02
|volume=277
|issue=13
|article=
|pages=1052-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/
|pubmedID=9091693
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|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.
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Balmert
|first2=Lauren C.
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Holl
|first3=Jane L.
|init3=
|author3-link=
|last4=Rosoklija
|first4=Ilina
|init4=
|author4-link=
|last5=Davis
|first5=Matthew M.
|init5=
|author5-link=
|last6=Johnson
|first6Emilie K.
|init6=
|author6-link=
|etal=no
|title=Nationwide Circumcision Trends: 2003 to 2016
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=J Urol
|location=
|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%,
}}</ref>


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