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→Decline in circumcision practice continues
Rickwood & Walker (1989) reported that 21,000 circumcision were done annually on boys under 15 years of age,<ref name="rickwood1989" /> so Cathcart et al. (2006) are finding a reduction of 53 percent,<ref name="cathcart2006" /> although still much higher than it should be. It should be noted that manual [[stretching]] of the [[foreskin]] with the aid of topical steroid ointment to relieve [[phimosis]] had not yet entered general use.
The 2000 British ''National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles '' (Natsal 2000) found that 15.8 percent of British males aged 16 to 44 reported being circumcised. The incidence of circumcision was highest in the men aged 40-44 at 19.6 percent [born 1956-60] and lowest in the group aged 16-19 [born 1981-84] at 11.7 percent. Men of ethnic minorities (except black Caribbeans) were significantly more likely to circumcised than those described as "white". Jews were 98.7 percent circumcised and Sikhs, Hindus, and Buddhists were only 9.8 percent circumcised.<ref>{{REFjournal
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