I just read about an upcoming multidisciplinary panel on circumcision by Professor Michael Rossental, who answered an interview about the reasons for this event. Reading the interview, I saw this propaganda in effect, see for yourself:
Q. How are the discourse and debates about circumcision different in the US versus Europe?A. Circumcision of male children is far more common in the US than in Europe. Right now about 80 percent of American men are circumcised as compared to about 10% in Europe. (The rates there vary. In the UK it is between 10-15%, while in Denmark, only 1.6% of male children are circumcised.) However, the rate of circumcision is dropping quite dramatically in the US. Two thirds of boys born in hospitals were circumcised in the ’80s and ’90s, but in the last ten years the rate has dropped to around fifty percent. At the same time, the World Health Organization has advocated male circumcision as a proven method to slow the spread of HIV infections. It has adopted policies to promote male circumcision in Africa for this purpose, at the same time as it has worked to limit the practice of female genital cutting in the continent.
This double standard is fortunately acknowledged during the interview.
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