Are most Aussie blokes cut (circumcised) or uncut?
According to data from Medicare (public-funded health care system in Oz) from 1995, about 51% of Aussie blokes are cut. While circumcision rates dropped rapidly in the 80s and 90s, Australians continued the tradition of circumcision long after it had dropped in countries like the UK and New Zealand. In the 1950s, up to 90% of newborn Aussie males were circumcised (hence, most Aussie blokes in their 40s and 50s are cut) in comparison to 50% of newborn males circumcised in the 70s, and 30% in the 80s. For more detail, read the following report: When Australia was first settled by the British the only form of circumcision on the continent was practised as a male initiation ritual by a limited number of Aboriginal nations in Arnhem Land and the desert areas of what is now the Northern Territory and parts of Western and South Australia. The first reports of such customs were greeted with horrified incredulity; in his study Prehistoric Times (1865), Sir John Lubbock listed the operation amon
