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The United States is predominantly an English-speaking nation. As in other English-speaking nations, non-therapeutic circumcision of boys was popularized in the nineteenth century, however, the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys is now in decline.
==History==
Jews have lived in America since before the Revolutionary War. They have always practiced [[Jewish circumcision| ritual circumcision ]] ([[Brit Milah]]) of boys on the eighth day of life in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], however this was only for a very small percentage of the population.
One may be certain that the eighteenth century Founding Fathers of the United States of America were men with [[intact ]] [[Foreskin| foreskins]] as were the [[foreskinned]] men who fought the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Non-therapeutic [[circumcision ]] of males for non-religious reasons originated in the [[United Kingdom]] in the early nineteenth century, but eventually spread to other English-speaking nations. The first recorded non-religious circumcision of a boy occurred in 1870 when [[Lewis Albert Sayre]] circumcised a boy of five years of age.
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