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|DOI=10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2024.06.022
|accessdate=2025-01-03
}}</ref> These findings are not surprising since the human [[foreskin]] provides both [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| protective and immunological functions]]against both physical [[trauma]] and [[infection]]. Obviously, [[circumcised]] boys lack these protections.
Circumcision was popularized in English-speaking nations in the nineteenth century. The practice of non-therapeutic circumcision of boys now has greatly declined in [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. It has been gradually declining since 1985 in the [[United States]]. It has ''never'' been a popular practice in other western nations.