Post by pavel on Apr 19, 2016 5:41:28 GMT -6
David Brown/Texas Standard
Anti-circumcision protesters gathered in Austin earlier this month.
I’m in Keller, Texas standing next to pediatrician Jason Terk. He’s showing me some graphics that analyze 30 years of circumcision data. If you were to trace that graph with your finger, you’d notice something.
“There’s been a slight drop in the rates of circumcisions – it’s not dramatic,” Terk says.
It’s only a 10 percent decline overall in the United States. But if you were to break that data into regions, you’d notice the decline in the western states was huge – 37 percent. Not the south, though. Here rates have remained almost steady.
At a February rally of the Intactivist movement – a group that advocates for intact penises – both male and female protestors wore white pants. They had red stains on their crotches to simulate bleeding.
Read more: www.texasstandard.org/stories/whats-behind-declining-circumcision-rates/