Aussie Guys & Circumcision

[aussienick]

Saw this is coming up tomorrow night on TV: 7.30 SUNDAY | 60 Minutes (3rd March 2013) - YouTube

 

[gettingonwithit]

Saw this is coming up tomorrow night on TV: 7.30 SUNDAY | 60 Minutes (3rd March 2013) - YouTube

Don't think it added much except the extreme sides of the debate and some naive parents. Oh and some disturbing sound effects on the promo.

 

[Nicky4]

27 & intact!

 

[cliftoncock]

Interesting that Australia somehow lags behind the UK in the uncut stakes. Here it was (effectively) stopped by the creation of the NHS in 1948.

 

[AussieDutch]

Here it's a choice, but many doctors refuse to do circumcisions. Friends of mine who recently had a boy (and stupidly insisted on circumcising him) had to find a doctor who did it privately at nights, off the record.

 

[neetbix]

51 and cut. My son is 19 and intact... I had no desire to mess with what nature gave him.

 

[jb3]

Interesting that Australia somehow lags behind the UK in the uncut stakes. Here it was (effectively) stopped by the creation of the NHS in 1948.

I didn't know that, Clifton.... Are many older Britsh blokes cut, then?

 

[gymfresh]

Newborn circ reached a peak of about 25% in the UK just before WWII. After the war several prominent paediatricians and other doctors emphasized that it was unnecessary and the foreskin is functional. When the NHS started up in July 1948, it prioritized procedures by need and routine circumcision fell to the bottom of the heap. A few families still had their sons circumcised privately, but even that fell off by the mid-1950s. The infant circ rate in Britain has been under 1% since then. I have heard several guys in the UK say that they associate circumcision with older guys - which makes sense, because the rate moves only in one direction as a cohort population ages. (A greater percentage of those born in 1950 will be circumcised by age 80 than by age 30.)

Australia took a while longer to coordinate its universal Medicare system, which now does not encourage newborn circumcision or see any national health benefit in it. New Zealand, more closely aligned medically with the UK, went from the highest circ rate in the world in the 1940s to effectively 0 by 1970. A comprehensive book about New Zealand's experience with circumcision is coming out next year.

 

[voyeurcurioso]

I'm in North America but do correspond online with some Aussies. Several of them (~age 19-20) indicate a reasonable amount of circ in their group, but they are all upper middle class suburban. Having thought that Aussies in that age group were almost universally intact, I find it interesting. Perhaps there are pockets of neonatal circ in some communities? The opposite obtains here in some parts of the US. I was born in a somewhat bohemian area of the Pacific Northwest and left intact, as were about 60% of my cohorts (estimating) , and we are hospital births. I think some clinics and hospitals in that region only circ on request and otherwise do not solicit it. Just a thought.

 

[drambone2001]

Same kinda thing here in Canada. Aussie guys, don't let them take your foreskin from you!

 

[Kensiboy]

When I was in Australia, it seemed like guys around my age, 20's, were circumcised if they were mainly upper-middle-upper class suburban and many urban, and country guys. The uncut ones were mainly first generation Aussies, children of immigrants and immigrants themselves! At least that's what I could tell! Hottest guy I was with was an Italo-Aussie who had beautiful blue eyes, amazing body and beautiful face, played rugby and surfed and had the biggest CUT cock I saw in the island! What a perfect man...and then that accent! this was in Sydney, we fucked like there was no tomorrow, I was 22 and he was 19! Great times, looking to go back!

 

[Kensiboy]

Noticed same trend in Canada...I was surprised to notice Montreal to be very 50/50...always thought they were mainly uncut in my age group? But it was a very pleasant surprise!

 

[aussienick]

Bump

 

[jonboy53]

I am from the USA. Leaving out Latinos, we are 95% circumcised. Too bad that you don't. A lot of reasons.

(P.S. Latinos are 50% circumcised.)

 

[CuriousTom]

Was taking a piss next to a guy at work today. Same age as me. Would have bet the house on him being cut, but he wasn't. Reckon there are more uncut Aussie guys born in the 70s than people think.

 

[Elmer Gantry]

Yeah, I'm 42 and uncut. But I'd say I was a minority in my age group.

 

[otahuhu]

i have been cut twice because the first wasn,t done properly it the best thing i have done all boys should be cut

 

[mandoman]

Right. Removal of part of the genitals is an ideal state.
Tell the other 70% of males who haven't seen the need.

 

[ssgt]

I was on the Gold Coast last week and there is a doc with. Radio ads promoting infant circ

 

[jojo_germezi]

I think it also matters which part of Australia you talk about, in southern states there are still lots of young men circumcised but in Queensland and further north, I can say 100% of guys are uncut! and also better endowed! hah because they are cowboys!!