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Intactivism is working! - Old-guy - 06-17-2026
It has been reported in the scientific literature that the incidence of boys being circumcised in the United States declined below 50 percent in 2022. There now appear to be more intact toddler boys than circumcised toddler boys.
The intact boys are not equally distributed. There are more intact boys in the Western region, but more circumcised boys in the Midwest region.
There are no signs that the statistics are likely to reverse. The rate of decline has been one percentage point every two years. That appears to be continuing.
The intact boys are healthy and happy. Parents-to-be who see the intact boys are more likely to protect their newborn sons from circumcision.
When today's toddlers grow up, there will be a lot more intact men in America.
RE: Intactivism is working! - fetcher - 06-20-2026
I saw that study too. Of course, it was presented in sky-is-falling fashion by pro-circ doctors, who bemoaned these intact boys missing out on all the supposed benefits of getting mutilated against their will. Someone named Toblin, I think, was the lead author, maybe out of Johns Hopkins?
1% every two years is terribly slow, but at least that trend line's moving in the right direction, and will hopefully accelerate now that dumb arguments over "fitting in" and "everyone's doing it" are now provably false. Not that all parents will be aware, sadly.
What would really speed things up would be for health insurance providers to stop paying for a needless and harmful procedure. Why are infamously penny-pinching American insurance companies, eager as they so often are to deny or make patients jump through hoops for medically necessary treatment, still wasting money on circumcisions? I know certain states have dropped it from their Medicaid coverage lists, so some bit of progress there.
RE: Intactivism is working! - Old-guy - 06-20-2026
(06-20-2026, 06:24 AM)fetcher Wrote: I saw that study too. Of course, it was presented in sky-is-falling fashion by pro-circ doctors, who bemoaned these intact boys missing out on all the supposed benefits of getting mutilated against their will. Someone named Toblin, I think, was the lead author, maybe out of Johns Hopkins?
1% every two years is terribly slow, but at least that trend line's moving in the right direction, and will hopefully accelerate now that dumb arguments over "fitting in" and "everyone's doing it" are now provably false. Not that all parents will be aware, sadly.
What would really speed things up would be for health insurance providers to stop paying for a needless and harmful procedure. Why are infamously penny-pinching American insurance companies, eager as they so often are to deny or make patients jump through hoops for medically necessary treatment, still wasting money on circumcisions? I know certain states have dropped it from their Medicaid coverage lists, so some bit of progress there.
Please inform parents, when ever you have an opportunity, that non-circumcision or intactness has become the NORM in the United States.