Trends-America’s long affair with the ‘unkindest cut’

Male circumcision lives on the in US after it has largely died out elsewhere.

A European man changing his clothes in a locker room of an American gym stands out as ‘different’.

That’s because in the United States male circumcision, unlike elsewhere, is almost universal. Along with school shootings, the death penalty and baseball, preventative infant male circumcision is one of those American exceptions that foreigners find hard to fathom and Americans hard to explain.

At the end of the 1970s, two thirds of boys born in the US were circumcised shortly after birth. That number had fallen by 10% since then to 58.3% in 2010, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, a sign the tide may be turning.

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