My dad got circed as an adult while serving in the USMC in Viet Nam. He is a twin, has a twin brother -- since becoming aware of the intactivism issue I have been VERY curious about my uncle and about his two sons, but I have never and could never ask. My relatives would keel over from apoplexy if I broached the subject. 
If my uncle is still intact, I will bet dollars to doughnuts that my cousins aren't, as a) my aunt was a nurse and b) they were born in upstate NY in the late 1960s, and I doubt many boys of that era and that place escaped the knife. 
The reason I always heard for my dad was "jungle rot" or some such nonsense. Which is total bull because he wasn't a grunt in the field, he was a fighter pilot living in barracks with some sort of field shower. Not luxurious, but not muddy and filthy either. My mom thinks it's because among his peers, all college-educated, elite fighter jock types, he wanted to fit in, and (*ahem* TMI) he wanted to be able to last longer in bed. (She married an intact man and ended up with a circed dh two years later!). He was a frat boy in college, so I imagine that he might have gotten some grief, and he always was a conformist.
I doubt very much the military "forced" him to do it, but I think it gave him cover for doing something that he thought would help him perform better and fit into his peer group.
If my uncle is still intact, I will bet dollars to doughnuts that my cousins aren't, as a) my aunt was a nurse and b) they were born in upstate NY in the late 1960s, and I doubt many boys of that era and that place escaped the knife. The reason I always heard for my dad was "jungle rot" or some such nonsense. Which is total bull because he wasn't a grunt in the field, he was a fighter pilot living in barracks with some sort of field shower. Not luxurious, but not muddy and filthy either. My mom thinks it's because among his peers, all college-educated, elite fighter jock types, he wanted to fit in, and (*ahem* TMI) he wanted to be able to last longer in bed. (She married an intact man and ended up with a circed dh two years later!). He was a frat boy in college, so I imagine that he might have gotten some grief, and he always was a conformist.
I doubt very much the military "forced" him to do it, but I think it gave him cover for doing something that he thought would help him perform better and fit into his peer group.
