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[[Image:Money.jpg|right|thumb|]]'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the term used to identify the collection of American medical trade associations, state medical societies, hospitals, physicians, and physicians medical journals that promote medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic male [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]], and who financially profit from the performance thereof.

The [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]] are primarily the American Medical Association, the [[American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists]], the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], the [[American Academy of Family Physicians]], and the [[American Urological Association]]. Medical trade associations whose members profit from the performance of [[circumcision]] usually issue [[bias| biased]] [[Medical_trade_association#Statements_regarding_male_circumcision| statements]] to promote non-therapeutic male [[circumcision]]. 

Hospitals Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of the newborn is regarded as a [https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/profitcentre.asp profit center], therefore most maternity hospitals promote and profit from the practice of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic practicecircumcision, by allowing and encouraging its practice, by automatically providing a circumcision consent form in the package of forms provided to an expectant mother in labor on admission, and by directing nurses to repeatedly inquire of mothers if a [[circumcision]] is desired.<ref>{{REFweb

The physicians are primarily those who practice in the areas of general practice, obstetrics, pediatrics, or urology and who [[financial incentive| financially benefit]] from the performance of the [[pain| painful]] and [[trauma| traumatic]] non-therapeutic [[amputation]].

[[Issues_with_American_urologists_and_the_practice_of_male_circumcision| Urologists]] focus on adolescents adolescent and adult [[intact]] males who escaped [[circumcision]] of the newborn.

Medical journals are mostly those journals which focus on obstetrics, pediatrics, family practice, or urology and publish [[bias| biased ]] articles to promote the practice.<ref name="fleiss1999">{{REFbook

Professor Morgan (1967), in his classic article — ''Penile plunder'' — accurately described the only real reason for the performance of non-therapeutic circumcision as — ''chronic remunerative surgery'' — meaning long-lasting recurring compensation to the surgeon.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Morgan |first= |init=WKC |author-link=William Keith Campbell Morgan |etal=NO |title=Penile plunder |trans-title= |language= |journal=Med J Aust |location= |date=1967-05-27 |volume=1 |issue=21 |article= |page= |pages=1102-3 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/morgan2/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=4226264 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb20892.x |doi= |accessdate=2023-11-15}}</ref> The profits are amazingly large. Bollinger (2012) estimated annual intake from the performance of medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to be $$3,640,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb