Bull, Queenie, I raised two boys and was in the Doctors office with them,along with my Husband.
So what was the procedure?
http://www.intactamerica.org/
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/08/the-aap-report-on-circumcision-bad-science-bad-ethics-bad-medicine/
The role of infant circumcision in the United States of America is mysterious. The US is the only country in the world where the majority of baby boys have part of their penises cut off for non-religious reasons. Yet this extraordinary custom is very much taken for granted. If it were being introduced today, it would certainly be rejected as barbaric and un-American.
History
Contrary to most accounts, the ancient history of ritual circumcision is almost completely irrelevant to the US. Secular circumcision began as a "cure" for masturbation
late in the 19th century in England. It swiftly crossed the Atlantic - though it was only ever confined to the upper classes in its homeland, where it has since withered and died.
In the US, it rose during the 2 - 5 years after each war the US has been involved in. It peaked at 90% in 1964, according to
the Laumann study (based on self-reporting by adults). The "war" connection ("It'll make a man of him"?) suggests it will rise again, perhaps using the "
desert sand" myth.
A recent paper claims a startling rise in the rate of circumcision. This is however based on some quite selective statistics. Figures from the National Center for Health Statistics show a slow decline. Both sets of figures show a higher rate in the Midwest and a much lower rate on the west coast.
Conformity
Peer pressure, social pressure, and pressure from circumcised fathers and grandparents intoning the mantra "
A boy should look like his father", all have combined to make "circumcised" an integral part of the concept of a USAmerican man.
Rights
Infant circumcision flies in the face of the country's far older tradition of Liberty and
individual rights.
It is defended by a curious perversion of those rights, a supposed "right" of parents to cut healthy tissue off a helpless baby - a "right" that has been totally extinguished when that baby is a girl, and is never missed.........................
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Hygiene
The claim that the intact penis is "dirty" and that circumcision makes him "
clean" is widespread - often in an exaggerated form, when you consider that women's
smegma is more copious and pungent than men's, and that
the great majority of men in the world are intact, without similar complaints from their womenfolk. Women who have never seen an intact penis convince each other that it is "
Eeew, gross!"
http://www.circumstitions.com/USA.html