You grow up assuming your body is yours. That the people around you—your family, your doctors, your culture—made decisions in your best interest.

But what if one of those decisions was irreversible?What if you never even knew it was optional?

This is The Hidden Cut: The American Cut—the complete first season, gathered into one supercut. Across seven episodes, we trace how a quiet medical ritual became the most normalized surgery in American history. From television and pornography to medicine and profit, this is a story about silence, consent, and the cuts that shape us.

Listen straight through to uncover the hidden history of circumcision in America—and stay tuned for Season 2: The Sacred Cut, where ritual and religion take center stage.

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