New Zealand
Circumcision in New Zealand
The incidence of male neonatal non-therapeutic medically unnecessary circumcision in New Zealand rose to about 95 percent in the 1940s. The incidence of male neonatal non-therapeutic circumcision started to decline about 1950. The decline seems to have been triggered by the publication of Douglas Gairdner's classic 1949 paper, The Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision[1]
It was reported at 0.35 percent among white New Zealanders in 1995.[2]
The males in New Zealand who are circumcised are mostly older men. The percentage of males who are circumcised is gradually declining as older males die off and are replaced by younger intact males. Almost no one under 25-years-of-age is circumcised.
The Maori people who constitute about 17 percent of the population do not circumcise.
It is said that the small Jewish population have to fly in a mohel if they want to have a son circumcised.
The Pacific Island people who constitute 8.1 percent of the population are an exception. The Pacific Islanders circumcise as part of their culture.
External links
- Young H, McGrath K. The rise and fall of circumcision in New Zealand. Circumstitions. 8 December 2000.
References
- ↑
Gairdner, D.M.. The fate of the foreskin: a study of circumcision. British Medical Journal. 1949; 2(4642): 1433-1437. PMID. PMC. DOI. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ↑
McGrath, Ken, Young, Hugh (2001): Review of Circumcision in New Zealand
, in: A Understanding Circumcision. George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, and Marilyn Fayre Milos (ed.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Pp. 129-146. ISBN 978-0306467011. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
