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The continuing practice of routine neonatal nonreligious [[circumcision]] represents an enigma, particularly in the United States. About 80 percent of the world's population do not practice circumcision, nor have they ever done so. Among the non-circumcising nations are Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Scandinavia, Russia, China, and Japan. People employing circumcision do so either for "health" reasons or as a religious ritual practiced by Muslims, Jews, most black Africans, non-white Australians, and others.
Read [[Edward Wallerstein]]'s pioneering article here.<refname="wallerstein1985">{{REFjournal
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