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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's SO common in the US that while growing up I felt ashamed and incredibly self concious of being uncircumsized in high school showers. Life's so strange.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not really a thing outside the USA? At least not in Canada anymore. I'm one of a bunch of kids and about halfway through my siblings they stopped recommending it.

Confused the hell out of 8 year old me tasked with giving my 3 year old brother a shower.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Thankfully the millennial generation has started doing away with circumcising our children. Last time I checked, which was admittedly 10 years ago, the circumcision rates were closer to 50/50 in the US.

Update: It's dropped below 50%!

“We reviewed over 1.5 million U.S. hospitalizations of male neonates, ages 0 to 28 days, during the period 2012 to 2022, and found that the overall prevalence of hospitalizations where a neonatal male circumcision was performed decreased significantly, from 54.1% to 49.3%,” says study co-senior author Aaron Tobian, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Decreases were observed across most patient and hospital subgroups, including whites — a group with traditionally high circumcision rates — where circumcisions dropped 5.3% over the decade studied.”

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2025/09/johns-hopkins-study-newborn-male-circumcision-rates-in-us-dropped-between-2012-and-2022

[–] taj@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

My husband started out with the "he should look like me.." and then quickly came around after a bit of reading. The Adam Ruins Everything on circumcision is great!

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's good to know it's moving toward not maiming kids. I'm afraid to ask about vaccination rates because my sister's kids are of questionable status on that front, and my sister won't talk about such things. Very alternative hippy type.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

I wish the stats were even better than they are now honestly. I think it's a horrendous practice.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I feel your pain brother.