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Harmful, non-therapeutic circumcision of the newborn in the [[United States]] hit its peak in 1965 <ref name="laumann1997">{{REFjournal |last=Laumann |first=Edward O. |init= |author-link= |last2=Masi |first2=christopher M. |init2= |author2-link= |last3=Zuckerman |first3=Ezra W. |init3= |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcision in the United States |journal=JAMA |location= |date=1997-04-02 |volume=277 |issue=13 |article= |pages=1052-7 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/ |pubmedID=9091693 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2025-10-17}}</ref> and has been slowly but continuously declining in popularity ever since.<ref name="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal |last=Jacobson |first=Deborah L. |init= |author-link= |last2=Balmert |first2=Lauren C. |init2= |author2-link= |last3=Holl |first3=Jane L. |init3= |author3-link= |last4=Rosoklija |first4=Ilina |init4= |author4-link= |last5=Davis |first5=Matthew M. |init5= |author5-link= |last6=Johnson |first6Emilie K. |init6= |author6-link= |etal=no |title=Nationwide Circumcision Trends: 2003 to 2016 |trans-title= |language= |journal=J Urol |location= |date=2021-01 |volume=205 |issue=1 |pages=257-63 |url=https://www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1097/JU.0000000000001316 |pubmedID=32716676 |DOI=10.1097/JU.0000000000001316 |accessdate=2025-10-17}}</ref> Microsoft Network (MSN) reported that the incidence of [[child circumcision]] in the United States has declined below 50 percent, which makes non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] the new <b>NORM</b> in the United States among newborn boys.<ref name="msn2025">{{REFnews |title=Less Than Half of U.S. Boys Now Circumcised |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/less-than-half-of-us-boys-now-circumcised/ar-AA1MBjzN |last=Anonymous |publisher=Microsoft Network |website= |date=2025-10-17 |accessdate=2025-09-29 |quote=From 2012 to 2022, the prevalence of circumcision during hospitalization of male neonates age 0 to 28 days decreased significantly by nearly 5 percentage points, from 54.1% to 49.3%,}}</ref>