America is fairly unique. There are actually very interesting reasons why it’s common here and not most other countries. Believe it or not it has a lot to do with the guy who created Raisin Bran cereal and bogus health concerns related to teenage masturbation.
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Replying to @SBMPediatrics @artbyailbhe and
I'm not positive on the numbers, but believe around 30%of Canadian neonates are still circumcised. Someone please correct me if this is way off.
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Replying to @maie_lynn @artbyailbhe and
We are closer to 70-80%, but it’s much higher or lower in some regions. At my hospital virtually 100% are circumcised.
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Replying to @maie_lynn @artbyailbhe and
It’s gradually declining. Very uncommon in some populations. In Houston at country hospital I did like 2 a month because most patients were from Mexico.
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Replying to @SBMPediatrics @maie_lynn and
I don’t have actual stats, but I can say newborn circumcision is rare in NZ. Approx 10% In 14years at my General Practice I’ve only seen one circumcised baby
and I asked the parents why they chose to.”To look like his Dad”.
WTF?
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Replying to @iv_coffee_stat @SBMPediatrics and
It was around 5% in 2000, mainly Polynesians, Muslims and Jews. http://circumstitions.com/NZ.html
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Replying to @intactive @SBMPediatrics and
Thanks for that information. I knew our rates were low in NZ these days, hence I never see any in the boys or young men at my Practice. Nor was it ever part of any conversation when I had my son early 90s in UK. I was unaware it was still so prevalent in the US, to be honest.
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Replying to @iv_coffee_stat @SBMPediatrics and
And of course if the MGC advocates in the USA are correct, you see a stream of intact boys and men with all sort of foreskin problems - infections, phimoses, paraphimoses, STDs, UTIs, HIV - right?
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Replying to @intactive @SBMPediatrics and
The men in my own life have never had trouble keeping their penises clean. A small group, admittedly
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The intact men in my life haven't either, an unfortunately small group because in my age group circumcision was still over 75% country wide, and this province, Ontario, was in the highest two provinces even then.
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