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-'''William Acton''' (1813–1875)) was a nineteenth century English physician and author from Dorset.
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+'''William John Acton'''<ref>{{REFjournal
+ |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39445
+ |title=Acton, William John
+ |last=Hall
+ |first=Lesley A.
+ |init=LA
+ |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
+ |date=2020-10-08
+ |DOI=10.1093/ref:odnb/39445
+ |accessdate=2022-07-04
+}}</ref> ({{LifeData|birth=1813|birthplace=Shillingstone|birthcountry=UK|death=1875|deathplace=London|deathcountry=UK}})<ref>{{REFweb
+ |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=william+acton+death
+ |title=william acton death
+ |website=Google
+ |accessdate=2022-07-04
+}}</ref> was a nineteenth century English physician and author from Dorset.
-Acton was influenced by French physician [[Claude François Lallemand]], who recommended [[circumcision]] to prevent spermatorrhea (excessive, involuntary ejaculation), which was then believed to be a disease.
+Acton was influenced by French physician [[Claude François Lallemand]], who recommended [[circumcision]] to prevent spermatorrhea (excessive, involuntary ejaculation), which was then believed to be a disease. Acton quoted Lalemand in his own books.
-Acton later devoted his efforts to the suppression of child [[masturbation]], which was then thought to produce blindness and other disorders.
+Acton later devoted his efforts to the suppression of child [[masturbation]], which was then thought to produce phthisis, blindness, insanity, and other disorders. [[Robert Darby]] (2003) wrote:
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+ |Text=William Acton's opinion that childhood ought to be a period of "absolute sexual quiescence" was an important influence here. If any manifestation of sexual capacity before [[puberty]] was pathological rather than normal, it had to be eliminated, and corrective surgery, including [[circumcision]], was one of the usual means.
+ |Author=[[Robert Darby]]
+ |ref=<ref>{{REFjournal
+ |last=Darby
+ |first=Robert
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+ |author-link=Robert Darby
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+ |title=The masturbation taboo and the rise of routine male circumcision: a review of the historiography
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+ |journal=J Soc Hist
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+ |date=2003
+ |season=Spring
+ |volume=
+ |issue=27
+ |article=
+ |page=
+ |pages=737-57
+ |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/darby4/
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+ |accessdate=2022-05-30
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   |year=1851
   |title=A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Urinary and Generative Organs in Both Sexes
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   |year=1857
   |title=Prostitution, Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects, in London and Other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, with Proposals for the Mitigation and Prevention of Its Attendant Evils
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   |year=1862
   |title=The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations
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 * [[United Kingdom]]
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+* {{URLwikipedia|William_Acton_(doctor)|William Acton (doctor)|2022-07-03}}
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