*but it is nice not to have to*

Oh come on SM, washing under the foreskin is hardly a huge job.
Fact is, you really don't have a choice. If they chopped your's
off, well tough titties, live with it and justify it however you
will.

I'm not the one getting emotional.

I am free from cleansing some vestigial relic.

I think I'll go and mutilate my fingers with some nail clippers.

Whatever makes you feel better, SM, justify it as you will.

Reality prevails, you were never given the choice so you will
just have to live with it.

Dear Yabby,

I beg to differ. As far as I'm aware at large reputable
hospitals and Medical Facilities - in the US - like UCLA
Medical Centre, and Cedars/Sinai, to name just two, -
circumcision is the normal procedure. It's taken as a
given - for health reasons and gynecologists and
obstetricians do the procedure automatically.
It's people without medical
insurance or on the lower-end of the economic scale in
society - where decline is setting in - for
predominantly financial reasons.

Anyway - I shall give all the information to my niece and
her husband - and ultimately it's their choice. As it should
be. But Thanks for sharing your opinion.

Dear Lexi,
Well clearly the stats show that you are very wrong. A majority
of Americans these days, are not circumcised.

But I also heard a quite different reason as to why it gained
popularity in the US after WW2.

According to the stories told to me in Europe, when the Nazis
decided who was jewish and who was not, some disputed their
jewish heritage to save their lives. So they had to drop
their pants and the evidence of being jewish or not, was rather
clear. Jewish doctors in America (loooots of doctors are jewish)
made sure it would never happen again.

Dear Yabby,

World War II was a little before my time. We
were in the US decades later. And stats can be
deceiving - as you know the US has a much
larger population than we do. As I stated earlier
I'm talking about the reputable private hospitals and
medical centres. As for "Jewish" doctors making medical
decisions for the reasons that you give I think is a
bit of a stretch. I think it's more to do with hospital
policies and the given practices of the American Medical
Association that most American doctors adhere to.