Assertion: circumcision | /r/CapableOf | become popular
Facets:
value: in victorian times
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the u.s.
type: LOCATION
value: particularly
type: DEGREE
value: in the western world
type: LOCATION
value: in the late 19th century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Circumcision became popular in the Western world in the late 19th century, when people began performing the operation in an attempt to prevent masturbation.
text: Circumcision became popular in the U.S. when childbirth moved from the home to hospitals in the early 1900s, with circumcision rates for newborns rising from the '50s through the '80s.
text: So ever since it became particularly popular in Victorian times, circumcision was always practiced more by the middle and upper classes.