Living with a foreskin in circumcised America

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Living with a foreskin in circumcised America is a review of the experiences of foreskinned guys with a penis with an intact foreskin in the United States, where the circumcised guy has been the norm.

Foreskinned guys frequently went to a school where they were the only foreskinned boy. They were likely to be teased and may have had their intact penis compared to an anteater or an elephant's trunk. They may have been made to feel abnormal or deformed because of the presence of their foreskin.

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What is the real norm?

In actuality, almost every male infant throughout the world is born with a foreskin. There is a very rare birth defect called aposthia in which the foreskin did not develop normally.

Charles Darwin established that evolution occurs because of "natural selection".[1] [2] The other primates also have a foreskin similar to that of humans.[3] The foreskin improves fitness for survival because of its many protective, immunological, sexual, and sensory functions.

Although all 100 percent of males are born with a foreskin, The World Health Organization estimated that about 70 percent of living males are intact and only about 30 percent are circumcised. The great majority of the circumcised men are found in the Muslim nations, stretching from Nigeria in the west to Indonesia in the east. A majority of males in the United States and Israel are circumcised. The foreskinned males are in the true majority world-wide and constitute the real norm, but not in the United States.

Distribution of foreskinned males in the United States

Peter Moore (2015) reported that 62 percent of all American males reported being circumcised,[4] which increases the prevalence of intact foreskin to 38 percent of living American males of all ages. This percentage is expected to gradually but constantly decline, while the percentage of males who are intact due to the declining incidence of newborn boys receiving medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision is expected to increase. The percentage of males with intact foreskin is lowest with senior citizens and highest in the youngest age groups.

The distribution of foreskinned males varies widely by census region, state, and by locality. The percentage of intact males is highest in the West census region and lowest in the Midwest census region. Among the states, Washington is believed to have the highest percentage of intact males and West Virginia is believed to have the lowest percentage of intact males.

Laumann et al. (1997) found that the incidence of neonatal circumcision in the United States reached its peak in 1965 at about 85 percent of boys being circumcised.[5] The incidence of circumcision has been declining slowly ever since, which means that one finds more intactness as age decreases. There also is more intactness among hispanic males.

Jacobsen et al. (2021) reported significant declines in the incidence of circumcision with an incidence of only 52.1 percent at the end of the study period in 2016. The corrolary is a foreskinned incidence of 47.9 percent among the boys born in 2016. Jacobsen et al. also reported that the incidence of intactness in the Midwest has increased from 1 boy in 10 to 1 boy in 4.[6]

History

Excision of the foreskin is a relatively recent practice in America. The Founding Fathers of the United States were all foreskinned.[7] So did all the men from both North and South who fought and died in the Civil War.

The first recorded medical 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.[8]

Urologists

American urologists love foreskins and foreskinned males. Urologists get a substantial fee for amputation of a foreskin, so one may expect to get a sales pitch for a circumcision if one visits a urologist for any reason. Your friendly urologist will be happy to do a circumcision for you for any reason or no reason. Make certain that you do your independent research on adult circumcision and do not depend on statements from your urologist, which may be biased by self-interest. There are plenty of regret men who did not do their homework.

References

  1. ↑   Darwin, Charles (1859): The Origin of Species. London: Murray.
  2. ↑   Darwin, Charles (1871): The Descent of Man. London: Murray.
  3. ↑   Cold CJ, McGraft KA (1999): Anatomy and histology of the penile and clitoral prepuce in primates.. Work: Male and Female Circumcision. Denniston GC, Hodges FM, Milos MF (eds.) (ed.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  4. ↑   Moore, Peter (3 February 2015). Young Americans less supportive of circumcision at birth. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  5. ↑   Laumann EO, Masi CM, Zuckerman ER. Circumcision in the United States. Prevalence, prophylactic effects, and sexual practice. JAMA. 2 April 1997; 277(13): 1052-7. PMID. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  6. ↑   Jacobson, Deborah L., Balmert, Lauren C., Holl, Jane L., Rosoklija, Ilina, Davis, Matthew M., Johnson. Nationwide Circumcision Trends: 2003 to 2016. J Urol. January 2021; 205(1): 257-63. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  7. ↑   Garrett, Connor (24 January 2024). Foreskins and Forefathers: A Constitutional Case Against Circumcision, Intact America. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  8. ↑   Gollaher DL. From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in America. Journal of Social History. September 1994; 28(1): 5-36. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
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