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Wolbarst's article appeared on the eve of World War I. It apparently influenced American military commanders to order [[adult circumcision| circumcision]] of military personnel under their command to prevent venereal diseases and improve military readiness.<ref name="hill2002skeldon2008">{{REFweb |url=http://purewatergazette.net/circumcision.htm |title=The Rise and Fall of Neonatal Circumcision: The Irrational Abuse Of Helpless Children |trans-title= |language= |last=Hill |first=George |author-link=George Hill |publisher= |website=purewatergazette |date=2002-11-04 |accessdate=2020-03-30 |format= |quote=}}</ref> No statistics exist to document how many men were ]][[circumcised]] because of Wolbarst's article.
The adoption of circumcision as a prophylactic [[amputation]] by American military services falsely stigmatized the [[foreskin]] as being unhealthy. [[Robert S. Van Howe|Van Howe]] (1999) has exhaustively shown that circumcision does not protect against STDs.<ref name="vanhowe1999">{{REFjournal