Is there a similar map depicting the 1990 era, please?

Posted by Icetealemonaid

29 Comments

  1. I’m surprised how low some of those states are. I figured it was still a very common practice in the US.

  2. the_real_JFK_killer on

    Damn, didn’t realize it varied so much by state. Also seems strange to me how much of an east-west divide there is.

  3. Oh, my, that’s heartbreaking…

    I got to know this shocking fact about the US only a few years ago and I’m still shocked when I think of it.

    It’s the 21st century…, it’s just unbelievable.

  4. Connect_Hospital_270 on

    I am also curious. Born in ’84 and thought circumcision was the natural dick look, until I was like 11-12, when I couldn’t figure out why my cousins dick looked liked an anteater when pissing off the roof of my Grandma’s shed.

    I’m unhappy that’s a core memory.

  5. When we had our boys recently (WA state, not Jewish) they basically told us at a birthing class “If any of you want circumcisions, there’s like 1 rabbi who will do them. He lives over in that other town nearby, we can give you his phone number. Anybody? Anybody?”
    Nobody was interested.

  6. Without a source, I’m gonna have to rely on my own experience and say these numbers look way too low. I never even saw an uncircumcised one until I met Europeans in college.

  7. I always forget Reddit is obsessed with circumcision then I see one of these posts with 20 upvotes on my homepage for some reason, this app is so weird.

  8. Mississippi, Alabama, and Delaware are putting a sheet over their head like they’re eating Ortolan.

  9. thisguypercents on

    Im curious on source as most newborn delivery and hospitals wont let you do circumcision at birth any more, you have to schedule a separate appointment. So it would be even harder to track.

  10. That 33% has to be a crazy dip for Utah, I don’t know anybody Millenial or Gen-Z who isn’t circumcised.

  11. Fun_Mistake_5906 on

    Well this explains why I didn’t see my first uncircumcised penis until I moved to FL from MO

  12. whatafuckinusername on

    Almost every state was probably higher in 1990. Also, what are the sources of these data? Do hospitals even release them?

  13. Trust_Fall_Failure on

    What?!! I had no idea that parents stopped getting their boys circumcised. I worked in a newborn nursery in the 1990’s and I never saw a single parent refuse a circumcision.

  14. Is this map supposed to represent least to most? Percentage? Example: Florida… What does 27 represent? 27 of 100, per city, per county, 27 of what?. A lot of the maps going up in this sub are severely lacking context.

  15. Regular-Stable-4026 on

    Just say you came from another country and never heard of this crazy demonic ritual we do on kids. And the doctor looks you in the eye right after you’ve had your child and says can I cut your son’s dick skin off? It’s got to be horrifying to hear something insane like that. . …stone3d thought of the night.