Kellogg (yes, the cereal guy) was a contributing factor. He was also a segregationist
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-dawn/200902/time-boycott-kellogg
The reason Americans do it is actually because it's covered as standard in health insurance so doctors bring up the option. In the UK rates of circumcision were identical to the US until the NHS wouldn't cover it and US health insurance started including it as standard.
The bigger question for me is why American Protestants and their colonial programs do it :amerikkka: :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:
Puritanical anti-sex and anti-masturbation attitudes, basically.
Kellogg (yes, the cereal guy) was a contributing factor. He was also a segregationist https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-dawn/200902/time-boycott-kellogg
Corn flakes
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It's easier to perform surgery on an infant than to tell a child they need to clean themselves lest they get an infection.
Also sex is bad and you'll die if you do it a lot so it has to feel less good than it does.
Semi-fun fact: circumcision is the only routine "prophylactic" surgery performed in modern medicine.
The reason Americans do it is actually because it's covered as standard in health insurance so doctors bring up the option. In the UK rates of circumcision were identical to the US until the NHS wouldn't cover it and US health insurance started including it as standard.
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Protestants love cosplaying as Jews, adapting the "chosen people" language to themselves.