It was so common at one point that most Americans will never know what a foreskin even looks like in person. So most American adults don’t even think about it because to them it doesn’t exist. The rates have been dropping thankfully and that should hopefully continue. Most Insurances no longer cover it which is great and with more being left intact many Americans are going to start being exposed to foreskin and that’s going to hopefully also help.
It’s just difficult because there’s so much hate in America targeted at the foreskin because we have 3 generations that have no experience with it at all besides the urban legends they have been told over and over. Many genuinely don’t even know what the foreskin is, and sex is so taboo to talk about that it’s hard to educate people. Plus because many parents chose to cut their sons, you basically have to get them to accept and internalize that they mutilated their own sons, in order to change their mind on the topic. And that’s such a horrible traumatizing realization that the brains natural defense mechanisms to protect us from mental trauma literally prevent them from accepting that a lot of the time. It’s not that they don’t want to think about it, the human psyche literally blocks the thought out as trauma. Which is why so many Americans immediately get violently angry when you bring up the topic. (I’ve had people actually threaten me and my family for trying to educate people in the past)
The “studies” have thankfully had so many holes pocked in them that most medical organizations are getting more sheepish about marketing the “benefits” they used to. But it’s still a roughly 100 BILLION dollar industry so there’s a lot of financial pressure for it to continue. Foreskins are crucial for making fibroblasts which is used in a majority of anti-aging cosmetics. So the cosmetics industry needs the circumcising to continue.
Then you have the social aspect. Americans often hate the very idea of foreskin because they don’t understand it. Women immediately reject it in many cases with revulsion, because that’s what they were raised to do, they just have no accurate knowledge or exposure to it. When all you’ve ever seen and known as normal is cut penises, and all you’ve ever heard about foreskin is it being gross and dirty, it’s extremely hard to change ones perspective on it. Most people that cut their sons now do it out of purely social pressure, and that’s if they even know that there is an option to leave their son whole. Many don’t even know that’s an option. That’s just how disconnected America is with the foreskin. It has been almost completely erased from our culture. And even when parents do push to protect their sons and leave them with their foreskins, American doctors are so ignorant about the foreskin that they often instruct parents to care for their sons penis in ways that actually cause harm, like forcefully retracting the foreskin to clean, or mistaking normal ballooning for phimosis and then convincing parents their son now has a “medical need” to be circumcised. Which is crazy since phimosis in most cases cannot be accurately diagnosed until much later in life when they become sexually active. And even then there’s other options besides cutting the foreskin off. But that’s just all American doctors know how to do.
And the irony is that it all began not because of medical studies and a false belief in benefits. It was popularized and pushed in America because people wanted to erase the “SIN” of sexuality. Circumcision was literally popularized in the US as a way to remove sexual pleasure so boys wouldn’t /couldn’t masturbate and so that couples would have no sex drive and only have sex for the purposes of having kids. America 4 generations ago knew what a foreskin was, and they knew it played such an important role in sexuality and pleasure, that they believed removing it would be the best way to destroy sexual pleasure to the point that no one would would enjoy it enough to participate in the “SIN” of sex for pleasure and masturbation. They knew the foreskin was so important they believed removing it would make boys unable to masturbate with reduced sensitivity and no gliding skin. Obviously it didn’t work as well as they had hoped, but it has certainly caused a LOT of problems that Americans believe are “normal”. Tight painful erections, the need for lube, painful rough intercourse, dried out “keratinized” penis glans, and mass erectile dysfunction to the point of needing to develop a whole industry of drugs just to get hard for sex.
When you think about that as a cut man, you really start to realize what you experience is probably such a diluted, bland version of what you should be. We will never get to know what true natural sexual pleasure feels like.
