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== Circumcision promotion ==
In 1953, he and [[Richard L. Miller]] published an influential paper in the ''American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology'', calling for the [[Routine Infant Circumcision|immediate circumcision of all males straight after birth]]. Ignoring [[Douglas Gairdner|Gairdner]] and relying heavily on the writings of [[Abraham L. Wolbarst|Wolbarst]], they insisted that “[[phimosis]]” required immediate surgical correction, and asserted that [[circumcision]] would “reduce the incidence of [[masturbation|onanism]]”, heighten male libido and “increase longevity and immunity to nearly all physical and mental illness.”
They also stated that [[circumcision]] immediately after birth was convenient for the doctor and in the financial best interests of the hospital. Leading obstetrical textbooks were soon rewritten to include Miller and Snyder’s recommendations.
==Contraindications==
Spence (1970) carried out a large scale study regardig immediate circumcision after birth. They study found that holding the newborn infant in the delivery room for circumcision resulted in chilling of the infant.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Spence
|first=George R.
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|title=Chilling of newborn infants: its relation to circumcision immediately following birth
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|journal=South Med J
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|date=1970-03
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|volume=63
|issue=3
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|pages=309-11
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/spence1/
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|pubmedID=5415184
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|DOI=10.1097/00007611-197003000-00014
|accessdate=2022/07/21
}}</ref>The practice of immediate circumcision after birth appears to have fallen into disrepute and may no longer be practiced.
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* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital]]
* [[Circumcision]]
* [[Human rights]]
* [[Intactivism]]
* [[Obstetricians and the American circumcision scandal]]
* [[United States of America]]
* [[Your Whole Baby]]
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