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Contemporary attitudes towards male circumcision: Removing "reason" for not circumcising which implies anti-Semitism and drawing attention to the religious reasons.
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Those parents who choose to have the procedure performed may cite some of the following reasons:
*It is part of their religious tradition. (This also applies to Christians for whom it is not religiously necessary, but who consider it a reflection of their faith's roots in Jewish theology.)
*(Muslim societies, The USA, Israel and a few others) Most other males in the Unitedtheir Statescountry are circumcised, and they want their child to be "normal" rather than being perceived as "different" by his peers.
*The father is circumcised, and they don't want the boy to be troubled that his penis is not like his father's.
*They prefer the appearance of a circumcised penis.