Many babies around the world get circumcised, but what is it actually doing to your penis? Read More: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Circumcision ...
========== We ALL know the penis is a sensitive organ,
and yet there are many who choose cut off a chunk of their kids' manhood -- but what
does this DO to
the penis? The practice of circumcision dates back thousands
of years, popping up in ancient cultures in Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas independently,
before any knew the other existed. It's practiced in Muslim, Christian and Jewish populations.
Worldwide rates vary, but in the U.S. from 1980 to 1999, 65 percent of babies were cut,
and today, it's closer to 56 percent; rates have been falling since 1960. Nationally,
three out of four babies getting the procedure in the Midwest, two thirds in the Northeast,
a little over half in the south, and only a fifth in the West! Circumcision is the act of slicing the foreskin
off the penis. A nat...