It’s not even just religion, the US is crazy about it, too. There is some religious influence there, too (in the “no one should feel sexual pleasure” sense), but it’s mostly cultural. Also, the UN is promoting it in subsaharan Africa as an anti-HIV measure which at least has more merit than most other reasons, though sounds still kinda sketchy IMO.
It’s not even just religion, the US is crazy about it, too. There is some religious influence there, too (in the “no one should feel sexual pleasure” sense), but it’s mostly cultural. Also, the UN is promoting it in subsaharan Africa as an anti-HIV measure which at least has more merit than most other reasons, though sounds still kinda sketchy IMO.