A (crcumcised) life in West Yorkshire.

At an all boys state secondary school in the 1970s I would say that at least 5 out of 32 boys in my class were circumcised (including me) which would be in line with the average for boys born in the early/mid 1960s. I guess that the circumcisions would all have been for medical reasons because we were all from white British working / lower middle class families. I don't remember anyone being teased for being circumcised - whilst we were definitely in the minority, we were not unique.

Now, at my local leisure centre, we who are circumcised are in a smaller minority than I was in at school and, with one exception, all will be aged 60+ which suggests circumcision as a medical procedure must have gone out of favour fairly rapidly from the 1970s onwards.

There was one occasion recently when four of the five men in the changing room were circumcised but that was a freak occurrence and I have only noticed two or three other men, all of a similar age, who are or may be circumcised. The exception to this group of aged 60+ white men was a boy of Asian heritage, in his case circumcised presumably for religious reasons, with his father who was presumably also similarly circumcised.

Peter