[core-questions]

Well, it's good to see they're slowly modernizing this, but in the end it's still a pretty bizarre practice even if you don't do it in that particularly disgusting way.

Not an American, and always wondered how it somehow became the standard in America....

[leephillips]

It by "it" you mean circumcision, it was thought to be good for hygiene. But these days it is no longer routine, as it was a few decades ago.