No Haiducii there have been no religious reasons for my parents. But I have had a very bad phimosis. When I got a boner the glans couldn't get free and my penis has got a painful bend. As well, as the doctor said, it was bad because of the cleaning of the glans which wasn't really possible.
And as I have said it was really very often very painful for me. So my mom brought me to a doctor and "snap" the foreskin was history. It was at first a little bit painful but today all is ok and my BF likes my "lance".
Your story is just about the same as one of my best Swedish friends sons; his name is Johannes and he had to get cir
cised when he was 16 - as far as I know it's comparatively unusual to get the cir
cision at this late age. But I guess his phimosis was getting worse and worse. Today Johannes is 20 years old and a very handsome and healthy young man - and I wouldn't be too surprised if he got both girls and boys after his pecker...
So of course physicians in European countries will make a cir
cision on clear individual medical indications - such as severe phimosis.
What's so strange and well night scary about the Anglophone world is the use of cir
cision as a general routine procedure - with the true purpose of making boys stop wanking. This started about 1870 in Great Britain, disseminating this practice in other parts of the British Empire (Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
While British surgeons and physicians started retracting from the idea of the positive values of boy molesting just after 1945, the US became the new global stronghold for cutting off parts of the boys body.
Anyone who wants to dig deep into this bloody history I can recommend "A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Forskin and the Rise of Cir
cision in Britain" by historian of medicine Robert Darby, published in 2005.