Circumcision in Australia?!
Question: presently is it common here? I am not btw
Answers: presently is it common here? I am not btw
As I understand it nowadays circumsizion is not actually as prevalent in Oz as it was a few decades ago.
In fact I saw a recent article about a call for it to be banned unless medically necessary, a call backed by Australia's top medical association:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/...
not really common... I am cut but done before I moved here... Done in Hong Kong
It's not common anymore at all. My sister has three boys, aged between 15 and 8...none of them are circumcised.
It's more common amongst strong Catholics and people of other religious and different cultural beliefs who live there.
ADD: Actually, Icy is right...the Catholic religion doesn't promote circumcision....my mistake, I stand corrected! Thanks.
It's no longer prevalent. Back in the 60's most guys were nicked at or near child birth.... around 70 - 80% of us...consequently I am cut.
This dramatically declined during the 70's and 80's and now circ rates of newborns is around 15%. Consequently both of my sons are not cut.
The Catholic Church, btw, does not promote circumscision. Abrahamic based faiths ... Jewish and Muslems for example, follow the practice as a covenant with their God.... but I reckon Abraham was an 84 year old man when he cut himself with a hatchet... prolly due to a nasty infection and dimentia!
I dont hear much of it going on here. Aussies dont really care to do it really. My son will not be circumsized, hope they dont need to ask.
Today the vast majority of Australian boys grow up happily with the bodies that nature gave them. Although circumcision was common from the 1920s to the 1960s, medical authorities have been discouraging and advising against the practice since the 1970s, and it is now pretty much a thing of the past. Most parents want their boys to be as happy and healthy as possible, and they know that leaving their penis to develop naturally is the best way to secure these outcomes.
http://www.circinfo.org/
not common, n fact, it just became illegal to perform in public hospitals. You have to go private if you want it done, hopefully that will discourage the few parents who are left wanting it :) -Neb
Nope. Austrailia is in fact taking steps to ban it in the hospitals. Smart country.
There is a baby boom in Australia so the number of circumcisions is rising a little but the proportion of the population circumcised is not.
surfnyogadude, our resident circum-fetish is quoting very dubious figures from the very pro-circumcision of the local cutting doctor, Terry Russell. He's an evil mutilator trying to persuade parents to pay to mutilate their sons and pay him for mutilating them. He quotes these outrageous figures to persuade parents that their sons will not be the odd ones out. All I can say is it is a long time since I saw a kid (either having a pee or having his nappy changed etc) in the Brisbane area with a mutilated penis.
The rates I have seen quoted are around 10-15% nationally, varying a bit from state to state.
When I was growing up maybe one in ten was intact.
Doctors went from promoting the practice to actively discouraging it.
By the way, although Catholics do not have any relegious reason to circumcise (as is true for all Christians, despite some of the misguided posts we see on this site) in the 50s and 60s Catholic hospitals were very pro-circumcision; I think because they believed it discouraged masturbation.
I am happy I live in a country where a boy has only about a one in ten chance of being mutilated at birth like I was. I found living in the USA, such a pro-circumcision country a little opressive.
Approximately 50% of all boys born in the greater Brisbane district are being circumcised. Queensland-wide, about 25% of boys generate a claim against Medicare and in N.S.W. about 17%. Those percentages are rising every year, and do not include those that don