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According to Wallerstein(1980), the rate incidence of male [[circumcision ]] in the U.S. may have been around 10% in 1880, when it was just beginning to become legitimized as a medical procedure, and grew in popularity steadily until it's peak in the 1980's.<refname="wallerstein1980">Wallerstein{{WallersteinE 1980}}</ref> Laumann ''et al''. (1996) reported data from the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS), which was conducted in 1992. 1511 men aged 18 to 59 years old were studied. They were born between 1932 and 1974. Laumann reported finding that 77 percent of men born in the US were circumcised as compared with 42 percent of US-born men. Laumann et al. commented, Edward"[t]he [[United States]] stands apart from the rest of the world for its high rates of neonatal circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Laumann |first=Edwin O. |init=EO |author-link= |last2=Masi |first2=Christopher M. |init2=CM |author2-link= |last3=Zuckerman |first3=Ezra W. |init3=EW |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcisionin the United States: An American Health Fallacy. SpringerPrevalence, Prophylactic Effects, New Yorkand Sexual Practice |journal=JAMA |location= |date=1997-4-2 |volume=277 |issue=13 |pages=1052-7 |url=http://www. 1980cirp. pp. 217org/library/general/laumann/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=9091693 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=}}</ref>  According to the American Medical Association's most recent major document on medical circumcision, the "Report 10 of the Council on Scientific Affairs", created by their "Council on Science and Public Health" in 1999, the prevalence of circumcision in the United States increased from about 30% in the 1930s to nearly 80% by the early 1970s".<ref>"[http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/ama2000/ Report 10 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (I-99): Neonatal Circumcision]". American Medical Association Official Website. http://www.amaAccessed 2020-assn.org/ama/no-index/about06-ama/13585.shtml. Accessed May 4, 201120.</ref> Current reports estimate the rate of adult circumcised American men at approximately 80%.<ref>{{REFnews

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[[Image:CDC 33.png ‎|thumbnail|300px| The picture of the slide used in the CDC presentation, seen here, was taken by an Intact America volunteer who attended the [[AIDS ]] conference in Vienna.]]

One year earlier, at the [[AIDS ]] 2010 Vienna conference, CDC spokesman Charbel El Bcheraoui delivered a presentation on circumcision complications,<!-- <ref>{{REFcontribution

{{SEEALSO}}* [[ImageInternational prevalence of circumcision]] {{LINKS}}* [http://chahttps://en.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Special:Captcha/helprtsbin.com/view/33702 Male Circumcision Prevalence by Country]* [https:WHO global //worldpopulationreview.com/states/circumcision -rates-by-state/ Circumcision Rates By State 2020]* {{REFweb |url=http://www.savingsons.org/2012/11/us-hospital-circumcision-rates-by-state.html |archived= |title=U.S. Hospital Circumcision Rates By State |trans-title= |language=English |last=Conte |first=Jonathon |author-link= |publisher=Saving our Sons |website= |date=2012 |accessdate=2020-08-25}}* {{REFweb |url=https://www.academia.edu/23494197/Infant_Male_Genital_Cutting_Incidence_Worldwide?email_work_card=view-paper |archived= |title=Infant Male Genital Cutting Incidence Worldwide |trans-title= |language= |last=Bollinger |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Bollinger |publisher= |website=www.academia.jpg ‎edu |date=2017-05-19 |thumbnailaccessdate=2020-08-28 |leftquote=}} == Current information for the United States == === Current prevalence ===Peter Moore (2015) reported that 62 percent of all American males reported being [[circumcised]],<ref name="moore2015">{{REFweb |500pxurl=https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2015/02/03/younger-americans-circumcision | Global title=Young Americans less supportive of circumcision ratesat birth |last=Moore |first=Peter |date=2015-02-03 |accessdate=2022-02-07}}</ref> 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, according while the percentage of males who are [[intact]] due to the WHOdeclining 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 due to the ever-declining incidence of [[circumcision]].