Steep drop, or sharp cutoff?

Sharp Lack-Of-Cutoff?

In a related story, women 25-35 have increasingly DTMFA.

So the US is slowly coming down in line with Europe, Australia, etc.?

Slowly, but I think we have further to go as IIRC, Europe/Australia/etc didn't get into the whole "circumcision hysteria" w/r/t hygiene back in the 50s. Until recently, it's just been SOP for parents to circumcise their sons unless they had a reason not to.

Anyhow, I think part of the reason the US is so far behind on this is that we went to a pretty big extreme, culturally speaking, and even after the hysteria had died down, people kept doing it because it's "what you did."

I think it's because Jenny McCarthy claimed that circumcisions cause autism. Probably on twitter or something.

Could Jenny McCarthy claim that Dora the Explorer causes autism? I would be seriously happy if that monstrosity (Dora that is) could just vanish into oblivion.

Jenny McCarthy causes autism. Pass it on.

Inappropriate thought: it just occurred to me that I don't know if my brothers are circumcised. Now, should I ask Mum or not? Decisions... decisions...

Hehe. These are the moments I know that I am Swedish. I know my brother isn't. I know my father wasn't. I've seen them both in their birthday suits and this is not weird. Perhaps it's odder that I know the same about my best friends brothers and father, but hey, sauna. They had the biggest one. SAUNA that is.

Being a "proud" American, I can indeed rest easy in the knowledge that I have no idea whether or not my father is circumcised and I hope to keep it that way for the rest of my life. :)

I do, however, know that the little boys I nanny for aren't and if I have any sons, they won't be. (More because their father is Portuguese and uncircumcised himself than any moral stance on my part.)

Hahaha :) My SO teases me for my "american prudeness" (he calls it) as I bought him the comfiest flannel jammies once Perle was born stating "you better sleep in these now, we will have a little girl climbing into our bed the next few years". He still hasn't used them, and our wee one still climbs into our bed declaring "I wanna sleep nekked like daddy". I swear I'm the only one in jammies in this house. Crazy Danes! No matter how often I zip her into her jammies, she wakes up without one, she's Houdini when she sleeps.

Anyway, good to hear about the decline. Not for any moral stance, just I have a hard time thinking of the pain little fragile wee babies have to go through. I nearly fainted when they had to take blood from my newborns foot, so youknow, I'm a wuss in the "poking at babies" department, and wouldn't let anyone near any future sons with a snip-snip thing. No way. I'd sooner dump the father if he insisted.

As for adult men with or without snip - I don't care, makes no difference to me. Just so no guys get self-concious here. It's just never-ever-ever gonna happen to my baby.

Y'know, I actually hate sleeping naked but I've never attributed it to being American - especially since I don't mind being naked in public. Well... in context that is. I don't mind being naked in a changing room. Just walking down the street? I do prefer clothes in that situation.

IIRC, Europe/Australia/etc didn't get into the whole "circumcision hysteria" w/r/t hygiene back in the 50s.
I can't speak for Europe, but it was pretty much standard practice unless contraindicated in Australia and New Zealand until very recently. I think it's still pretty much standard practice, in fact. The only reason my son has not been snipped is because, when we realised how many operations he was going to have to go through, the thought of putting him through another one just so he could be the same as his father completely ruled it out for both of us.

dabitch, I also refuse to wear pyjamas despite all the little people who have wanted to jump into our bed. I can't stand them, never wear them and don't own any anyway. The girls are getting a bit old for me to wander around the house naked, though, so I've had to stop doing that recently.

Yeah, dg? It was my understanding that circumcision rates dropped off in the mid-70s, at least in NZ.

Ha! I debated posting that, but figured what the hey - I'm sure y'all already think I'm insane.

Anyway, I asked the mister what the deal was in Canada but he doesn't really know. He and his brothers are intact (late 1940s to mid 1950s).

We had my newborn son circumcised at home, by a mohel/pediatrician. He didn't cry, and it didn't seem to faze him, not then, and not during the next few days which required minimal aftercare.

Both my sons are circumcised (17 and 13). Around the time I had them, I remember the circulating information that circumcision was best for hygenic reasons, etc. I would have had it done anyway, yes, just because it was done almost automatically. Plus, it was one less thing I had to worry about cleaning properly. And knowing now my fights with my younger son over cleanliness and hygiene (what is IT with some boys????) i feel much better.

As for sleeping naked. Nope. Never could. All those little calls in the night when they were small, I didn't want to scare them. But recently I've discovered the joys of nude sleep, I have plenty of bathrobes if needed, and so I now sleep in the all-together.

One more decision we won't have to make since we're adopting! Yay!

Out of the probably 50 penises I've seen, only one of them has been uncircumcised. These are white Americans born mostly in the 1960s.

redvixen: Just FYI, cleaning an uncircumcised infant penis is pretty much exactly the same as a circumcised one. I've done plenty of both and it's absolutely not any more difficult at all.

I am but my son isn't. My state has never really bothered me and my son's never complained to us (of course being the shy geek he is, he'd die before he's discuss such things with his parents).

My son was circumcised in a synagogue by a mohel. He cried. So did we. Healing and recovery took about a week.

I have mixed feelings about it.