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Originally Posted by Bill
The folklore is that the high percentage of jewish doctors in the american medical system led to a trend in the 20th century towards circumcizing all male children "for hygenic reasons".
However, most of the research into it seems to conclude that it's basically a cultural phenomenon, not really a medical/hygenic one.
However, you can always tell cheap eastern euro porn from american porn by the presence of the foreskin.
And americans have developed a bit of an 'ick factor' towards the foreskin.
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This, pretty much.
At this point, though America is (in theory) primarily Christian, it has become a cultural standard due to historical trends in medicine. It's actually relatively recent - by all accounts, coming into popular practice at birth in the twentieth century - but firmly entrenched in our visual standards. Much as thinner women are generally deemed more attractive in US culture, as are circumcised men.