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.
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 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]
References
- Jump up ↑
Darwin, Charles (1859): The Origin of Species. London: Murray.
- Jump up ↑ Darwin, Charles (1871): The Descent of Man. London: Murray.
- Jump up ↑ 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.
- Jump up ↑
Moore, Peter (3 February 2015). Young Americans less supportive of circumcision at birth
. Retrieved 23 February 2025. - Jump up ↑
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.
