Circumcision, monogamy, and America

According to Christopher Wilson, a neurobiologist at Cornell University, and as reported in Circumcision Cutting the competition Economist.com: "Some 48% of the highly polygynous ones practised a form of male-genital mutilation, and the number rose to 63% when co-wives kept separate households. By contrast, only 14% of monogamous societies practised mutilation. Moreover, and also as predicted, the mutilations were almost always carried out in public, often as part of a coming-of-age ceremony at puberty, with strong stigma attached to unmutilated men."

So, given that traditionally non-Muslim males in India never went through circumcision, does it mean that monogamy saved the foreskin? All right, more power to monogamy then :-)

The article further reports that "most of the Western world has already largely abandoned routine neonatal circumcision, which is seen as an outdated and unfortunate medical fad.
The exceptions are America, where more than half of newborn boys are still circumcised, and Africa, where circumcision helps to stop the transmission of HIV, the AIDS-causing virus. "

America's exceptional status even in something like this. As Yakov Smirnoff says, America: what a country!"