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| Title=Circumcision
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| FirstEdition=July, 1990
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| Publisher=Taterhill PR
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| ISBN={{ISBN|978-0961679231}}
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An emotionally literate, culturally sensitive, yet fearless exploration of why the United States is the only country in the world to circumcise a majority of its baby boys for supposedly medical reasons. Includes various aspects of the practice, including its impact on sexuality.
An emotionally literate, culturally sensitive, yet fearless exploration of why the [[United States]] is the only country in the world to circumcise a majority of its baby boys for supposedly medical reasons. Includes various aspects of the practice, including its impact on sexuality.


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== About the Author ==
== About the Author ==


Billy Ray Boyd has been active for well over a decade in the movement to end routine infant circumcision. He teaches at City College of San Francisco.  
[[Billy Ray Boyd]] has been active for well over a decade in the movement to end non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]]. He teaches at [https://www.ccsf.edu/ City College of San Francisco].  


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Book Data
Title Circumcision
SubtitleWhat It Does
AuthorBilly Ray Boyd
First EditionJuly, 1990
PublisherTaterhill PR
ISBN978-0961679231

An emotionally literate, culturally sensitive, yet fearless exploration of why the United States is the only country in the world to circumcise a majority of its baby boys for supposedly medical reasons. Includes various aspects of the practice, including its impact on sexuality.

Quotes

Excellent--the right mixture of personal, scientific, and political.
– Jed Diamond, author (The Warrior's Journey Home: Healing Men's Addictions, Healing the Planet)
Thoroughly researched, compelling, expressed with fervor but in no way a diatribe.'
– Ed Duvin, former editor (animalines)
[D]isplays particular sensitivity to issues of religion, health, sexuality and parental and infant rights. (Sexuality Library, San Francisco)


About the Author

Billy Ray Boyd has been active for well over a decade in the movement to end non-therapeutic infant circumcision. He teaches at City College of San Francisco.