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| − | Many Americans are surprised to hear that [[circumcision]] (the surgical removal of the [[foreskin]]) is uncommon in the western world. Foreigners are often shocked when they first hear that the practice of circumcision even exists in the United States. Circumcision was first introduced in the United States by an anti-sexual Victorian initiative which began during the 1830’s. Numerous publications from the 1830’s to times even as late as the 1970’s had advocated for circumcision as a means to prevent [[masturbation]], and to permanently desensitize, denude, and immobilize the penis.<ref name="Lallemand">{{ | + | Many Americans are surprised to hear that [[circumcision]] (the surgical removal of the [[foreskin]]) is uncommon in the western world. Foreigners are often shocked when they first hear that the practice of circumcision even exists in the United States. Circumcision was first introduced in the [[United States]] by an anti-sexual Victorian initiative which began during the 1830’s. Numerous publications from the 1830’s to times even as late as the 1970’s had advocated for circumcision as a means to prevent [[masturbation]], and to permanently desensitize, denude, and immobilize the penis.<ref name="Lallemand">{{Lallemand1836}}</ref><ref name="Dixon">{{Dixon1845}}</ref><ref name="Moses1871">{{Moses1871}}</ref><ref name="Kellogg1888">{{Kellogg1888}}</ref><ref name="Hutchinson1891">{{REFjournal |
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|title=Should the baby be circumcised? | |title=Should the baby be circumcised? | ||
| + | |url=https://www.circumstitions.com/1941.html | ||
|journal=Parents Magazine | |journal=Parents Magazine | ||
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|title=Urology | |title=Urology | ||
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|chapter=The Male Genital Tract and the Female Urethra | |chapter=The Male Genital Tract and the Female Urethra | ||
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[[Image:FGC.jpeg|right|thumb|From Historical American Female Circumcision medical papers]] | [[Image:FGC.jpeg|right|thumb|From Historical American Female Circumcision medical papers]] | ||
| − | Circumcision advocates quickly moved on to manufacture a number of outrageous health claims. These claims were tailored to the fears and anxieties of the day. Circumcision has been claimed to cure epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema, bed-wetting, hip-joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight, idiocy, mental retardation, insanity, strabismus, hydrocephalus, clubfoot, cancer, STD’s, UTI’s, etc.<ref> | + | Circumcision advocates quickly moved on to manufacture a number of outrageous health claims. These claims were tailored to the fears and anxieties of the day. Circumcision has been claimed to cure epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema, bed-wetting, hip-joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight, idiocy, mental retardation, insanity, strabismus, hydrocephalus, clubfoot, cancer, STD’s, UTI’s, etc.<ref>{{REFbook |
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| + | |first=Frederick A. | ||
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| + | |author-link=Frederick M. Hodges | ||
| + | |chapter=Short History of the Institutionalization of Involuntary Sexual Mutilation in the United States | ||
| + | |editors=[[George C. Denniston|G. C. Denniston]] & [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|M. F. Milos]] | ||
| + | |title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy | ||
| + | |location=New York | ||
| + | |publisher=Plenum Press | ||
| + | |year=1997 | ||
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| + | }}</ref> [[Masturbation]] was a major focus of Victorian doctors.<ref name="self2016">{{REFjournal | ||
| + | |url=https://journals.troy.edu/index.php/test/article/view/386/302 | ||
| + | |title=The Rise of Circumcision in Victorian America | ||
| + | |first=Eleanor | ||
| + | |last=Self | ||
| + | |author-link=Eleanor Self | ||
| + | |journal=The Alexandrian | ||
| + | |volume=5 | ||
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| + | |date=2016 | ||
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| + | When gentiles in Germany criticized the Jewish practice of [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]] as "barbaric", Jewish doctors in Germany invented false claims that circumcision could prevent a variety of diseases.<ref>{{REFbook | ||
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| + | |title=Medicine and the German Jews | ||
| + | |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203164223/http://www.cirp.org/library/history/ephron1/ | ||
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| + | }}</ref> American Jewish doctors exhibited similar behavior. | ||
Doctors were eager to claim that they could prevent and cure many of these aliments, conditions and diseases because there were no treatments available then. Even though all of these claims have been throughly discredited, circumcision has remained a solution in search of a problem ever since. Many Americans are surprised to find out that female genital cutting ([[FGC]]) shares a strikingly similar history in the United States. | Doctors were eager to claim that they could prevent and cure many of these aliments, conditions and diseases because there were no treatments available then. Even though all of these claims have been throughly discredited, circumcision has remained a solution in search of a problem ever since. Many Americans are surprised to find out that female genital cutting ([[FGC]]) shares a strikingly similar history in the United States. | ||
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[[FGC]] was even covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield until 1977. Nowadays, many forms of [[FGC]] are now considered forms of female genital mutilation ([[FGM]]), which are banned in all western countries. | [[FGC]] was even covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield until 1977. Nowadays, many forms of [[FGC]] are now considered forms of female genital mutilation ([[FGM]]), which are banned in all western countries. | ||
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| − | * | + | * 1836 [[Claude François Lallemand]] circumcises a patient to '''cure''' him '''from nocturnal seminal emissions''' (i.e. wet dreams).<ref name="Lallemand"/> |
* 1845 [[Edward H. Dixon]] declares that circumcision '''prevents [[masturbation]]'''.<ref name="Dixon"/> | * 1845 [[Edward H. Dixon]] declares that circumcision '''prevents [[masturbation]]'''.<ref name="Dixon"/> | ||
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| − | * 1865 [[Nathaniel Heckford]] claims that circumcision '''cures epilepsy'''.<ref>{{ | + | * 1865 [[Nathaniel Heckford]] claims that circumcision '''cures epilepsy'''.<ref>{{Heckford1865}}</ref> |
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* 1870 [[Lewis A. Sayre]] publishes a paper 'proving' that circumcision '''cures epilepsy'''.<ref>{{REFjournal | * 1870 [[Lewis A. Sayre]] publishes a paper 'proving' that circumcision '''cures epilepsy'''.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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|title=Circumcision versus epilepsy, etc; Transcription of the New York Pathological Society meeting of June 8, 1870 | |title=Circumcision versus epilepsy, etc; Transcription of the New York Pathological Society meeting of June 8, 1870 | ||
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|title=Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce | |title=Partial paralysis from reflex irritation, caused by congenital phimosis and adherent prepuce | ||
|journal=Transactions of the American Medical Association | |journal=Transactions of the American Medical Association | ||
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| − | * 1871 [[M.J. Moses]] declares that Jews are '''immune to [[masturbation]] because of circumcision'''.<ref name="Moses1871"/> | + | * 1871 [[M. J. Moses]] declares that Jews are '''immune to [[masturbation]] because of circumcision'''.<ref name="Moses1871"/> |
| − | * 1873 [[Joseph Bell]] announces his discovery that circumcision '''cures bed wetting'''.<ref>{{ | + | * 1873 [[Joseph Bell]] announces his discovery that circumcision '''cures bed wetting'''.<ref>{{Bell1873}}</ref> |
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* 1875 [[Lewis A. Sayre]] declares that '''foreskin causes curvature of the spine, paralysis of the bladder, and clubfoot'''.<ref>{{REFjournal | * 1875 [[Lewis A. Sayre]] declares that '''foreskin causes curvature of the spine, paralysis of the bladder, and clubfoot'''.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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|title=Spinal anaemia with partial paralysis and want of coordination, from irritation of the genital organs | |title=Spinal anaemia with partial paralysis and want of coordination, from irritation of the genital organs | ||
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| − | * 1879 [[H.H. Kane]] 'discovers' that circumcision '''cures nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia'''.<ref>{{ | + | * 1879 [[H. H. Kane]] 'discovers' that circumcision '''cures nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia'''.<ref>{{Kane1879}}</ref> |
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| − | * 1881 [[Maximillian | + | * 1881 [[Maximillian Landesberg]] announces that circumcision '''cures eye problems''' that he believed were '''caused by [[masturbation]]'''.<ref>{{Landesberg1881}}</ref> |
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| − | * 1886 [[William G. Eggleston]] declares that '''foreskin causes crossed eyes'''.<ref>{{ | + | * 1886 [[William G. Eggleston]] declares that '''foreskin causes crossed eyes'''.<ref>{{Eggleston1886}}</ref> |
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| − | * 1888 [[John Harvey Kellogg]] promotes '''circumcision as punishment''' for boys to discourage them from masturbating.<ref>{{ | + | * 1888 [[John Harvey Kellogg]] promotes '''circumcision as punishment''' for boys to discourage them from masturbating.<ref>{{Kellogg1888}}</ref> |
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* 1890 [[William D. Gentry]] declares that circumcision '''cures blindness, deafness and dumbness.'''<ref>{{REFjournal | * 1890 [[William D. Gentry]] declares that circumcision '''cures blindness, deafness and dumbness.'''<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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| − | * 1894 [[ | + | * 1894 [[Peter Charles Remondino]] says '''circumcising blacks will help prevent them from raping whites'''.<ref name="Remondino1894"/> |
| − | * 1894 [[H.L. Rosenberry]] publishes paper 'proving' that circumcision '''cures urinary and rectal incontinence'''.<ref>{{ | + | * 1894 [[H. L. Rosenberry]] publishes paper 'proving' that circumcision '''cures urinary and rectal incontinence'''.<ref>{{Rosenberry1894}}</ref> |
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* 1898 [[T. Scott McFarland]] says he has "circumcised as many girls as boys, and always with happy results."<ref name="McFarland1898"/> | * 1898 [[T. Scott McFarland]] says he has "circumcised as many girls as boys, and always with happy results."<ref name="McFarland1898"/> | ||
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| − | * 1901 [[Ernest G. Mark]] notes that the "pleasurable sensations that are elicited from the extremely sensitive" inner lining of the foreskin may encourage a child to masturbate, which is why he recommends circumcision since it "lessens the sensitiveness of the organ".<ref>{{ | + | * 1901 [[Ernest G. Mark]] notes that the "pleasurable sensations that are elicited from the extremely sensitive" inner lining of the foreskin may encourage a child to masturbate, which is why he recommends circumcision since it "lessens the sensitiveness of the organ".<ref>{{Mark1901}}</ref> |
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| − | * 1902 [[Roswell Park]] publishes paper 'proving' that '''foreskin causes epilepsy''' and that circumcision cures it.<ref>{{ | + | * 1902 [[Roswell Park]] publishes paper 'proving' that '''foreskin causes epilepsy''' and that circumcision cures it.<ref>{{Park1902}}</ref> |
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* 1914 [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]] claims that circumcision '''prevents tuberculosis''' and demands the compulsory circumcision of all children in America.<ref>{{REFjournal | * 1914 [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]] claims that circumcision '''prevents tuberculosis''' and demands the compulsory circumcision of all children in America.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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* 1915 [[Benjamin E. Dawson]] says that since the '''clitoral hood is the source of many neuroses''', female circumcision is necessary.<ref name="Dawson1915"/> | * 1915 [[Benjamin E. Dawson]] says that since the '''clitoral hood is the source of many neuroses''', female circumcision is necessary.<ref name="Dawson1915"/> | ||
| − | * 1918 [[Belle Eskridge]] concludes circumcision will '''relieve one of the greatest causes of [[masturbation]]''' in girls.<ref name="Eskridge1918"/> | + | * 1918 [[Belle C. Eskridge]] concludes circumcision will '''relieve one of the greatest causes of [[masturbation]]''' in girls.<ref name="Eskridge1918"/> |
* 1926 [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]] claims that circumcision '''prevents penile cancer'''.<ref name="wolbarst1926">{{REFjournal | * 1926 [[Abraham L. Wolbarst]] claims that circumcision '''prevents penile cancer'''.<ref name="wolbarst1926">{{REFjournal | ||
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| − | * 1930 [[Norton Henry Bare]] claims that he has cured a boy of '''epilepsy''' by circumcising him.<ref>{{ | + | * 1930 [[Norton Henry Bare]] claims that he has cured a boy of '''epilepsy''' and '''bed-wetting''' by circumcising him.<ref>{{Bare1930}}</ref> |
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[[File:Single_mogen.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Gomco|Gomco]] and [[Mogen|Mogen]] clamps.]] | [[File:Single_mogen.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Gomco|Gomco]] and [[Mogen|Mogen]] clamps.]] | ||
| − | * 1934 [[Aaron Goldstein]] and [[Hiram S. Yellen]] invent and mass market the [[Gomco]] clamp which makes it easier for doctors to cut off even more skin than in traditional circumcisions.<ref>{{ | + | * 1934 [[Aaron Goldstein]] and [[Hiram S. Yellen]] invent and mass market the [[Gomco]] clamp which makes it easier for doctors to cut off even more [[skin]] than in traditional circumcisions.<ref>{{GoldsteinYellen1935}}</ref> |
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* 1935 [[R. W. Cockshut]] demands that all boys be circumcised in order to '''desensitize the penis and promote chastity'''.<ref name="Cockshut1935"/> | * 1935 [[R. W. Cockshut]] demands that all boys be circumcised in order to '''desensitize the penis and promote chastity'''.<ref name="Cockshut1935"/> | ||
| − | * 1941 [[ | + | * 1941 [[Alan F. Guttmacher]] promotes mass circumcision as a means of '''blunting male sexual sensitivity'''. He also spreads the false claim that a baby's foreskin must be forcibly retracted and scrubbed daily.<ref name="Guttmacher1941"/> |
* 1942 [[Abraham Ravich]] claims that circumcision prevents '''prostate cancer'''.<ref>{{Ravich1942}}</ref> | * 1942 [[Abraham Ravich]] claims that circumcision prevents '''prostate cancer'''.<ref>{{Ravich1942}}</ref> | ||
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|author-link=Eugene H. Hand | |author-link=Eugene H. Hand | ||
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|title=Circumcision and venereal disease | |title=Circumcision and venereal disease | ||
|journal=Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology | |journal=Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology | ||
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| + | |DOI=10.1001/archderm.1949.01530030037004 | ||
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* 1951 [[Abraham Ravich]] invents claims that circumcision prevents '''cervical cancer in women'''.<ref>{{Ravich1951}}</ref> | * 1951 [[Abraham Ravich]] invents claims that circumcision prevents '''cervical cancer in women'''.<ref>{{Ravich1951}}</ref> | ||
| − | * 1953 [[ | + | * 1953 [[Richard L. Miller]] and [[Donald C. Snyder]] unleash their plans to circumcise all male babies immediately after birth while still in the delivery room to '''prevent [[masturbation]]''' and '''provide "immunity to nearly all physical and mental illness."'''<ref name="MillerSnyder1953"/> |
| − | * 1954 [[Ernest L. Wynder]] claims that male circumcision '''prevents cervical cancer in women.'''<ref>{{ | + | * 1954 [[Ernest L. Wynder]] claims that male circumcision '''prevents cervical cancer in women.'''<ref>{{Wynder1954}}</ref> |
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* 1956 [[Raymond Creelman]] invents the [[Circumstraint]] which straps down and immobilizes the baby's arms and legs.<ref>{{REFdocument | * 1956 [[Raymond Creelman]] invents the [[Circumstraint]] which straps down and immobilizes the baby's arms and legs.<ref>{{REFdocument | ||
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| − | * 1958 [[ | + | * 1958 [[Christine F. McDonald]] says "the same reasons that apply for the circumcision of males are generally valid when considered for the female."<ref name="McDonald1958"/> |
| − | * 1959 [[W.G. Rathmann]] finds that among the many benefits of female circumcision is that it will '''make the clitoris easier for the husband to find'''.<ref name="Rathmann1959"/> | + | * 1959 [[W. G. Rathmann]] finds that among the many benefits of female circumcision is that it will '''make the [[clitoris]] easier for the husband to find'''.<ref name="Rathmann1959"/> |
* 1966 Masters and Johnson erroneous claim that there is '''no difference in sensitivity between penises with and without [[foreskin]]'''.<br>(Note: Their work helps propagate the medical dogma that [[circumcision]] has no effect on sexuality go practically unquestioned for nearly the next four decades.)<ref>{{REFbook | * 1966 Masters and Johnson erroneous claim that there is '''no difference in sensitivity between penises with and without [[foreskin]]'''.<br>(Note: Their work helps propagate the medical dogma that [[circumcision]] has no effect on sexuality go practically unquestioned for nearly the next four decades.)<ref>{{REFbook | ||
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|year=1966 | |year=1966 | ||
|title=Human Sexual Response | |title=Human Sexual Response | ||
|location=Boston, MA | |location=Boston, MA | ||
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* 1971 [[Abraham Ravich]] claims that circumcision prevents cancer of the bladder and the rectum.<ref>{{Ravich1971}}</ref> | * 1971 [[Abraham Ravich]] claims that circumcision prevents cancer of the bladder and the rectum.<ref>{{Ravich1971}}</ref> | ||
| − | * 1971 The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] Committee on Fetus and Newborn issues a warning to the Nation that, "There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."<ref>{{REFbook | + | * 1971 The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] Committee on [[Fetus]] and Newborn issues a warning to the Nation that, "There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."<ref>{{REFbook |
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* 1997 [[Edgar J. Schoen]] tries and fails once again to convince European countries to institute mass circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal | * 1997 [[Edgar J. Schoen]] tries and fails once again to convince European countries to institute mass circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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* 1999 The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] Task Force on Circumcision, after reviewing 40 years worth of medical studies, concluded that the "potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision... are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision." This report is also the first time the AAP has acknowledged (after decades of doctors mindlessly repeating the belief that babies don't feel significant pain) that circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic and if circumcision is to be done, anesthesia should be used. Here are some highlights from the report: | * 1999 The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] Task Force on Circumcision, after reviewing 40 years worth of medical studies, concluded that the "potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision... are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision." This report is also the first time the AAP has acknowledged (after decades of doctors mindlessly repeating the belief that babies don't feel significant pain) that circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic and if circumcision is to be done, anesthesia should be used. Here are some highlights from the report: | ||
::'''Role of Hygiene:''' "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimum penile hygiene." | ::'''Role of Hygiene:''' "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimum penile hygiene." | ||
| − | ::'''STDs including HIV:''' "behavioral factors appear to be far more important than circumcision status." | + | ::'''STDs including [[HIV]]:''' "behavioral factors appear to be far more important than circumcision status." |
::'''Penile Cancer:''' "in a developed country such as the United States, penile cancer is a rare disease and the risk of penile cancer developing in an [[uncircumcised]] man, although increased compared with a circumcised man, is low." | ::'''Penile Cancer:''' "in a developed country such as the United States, penile cancer is a rare disease and the risk of penile cancer developing in an [[uncircumcised]] man, although increased compared with a circumcised man, is low." | ||
::'''Urinary Tract Infections:''' "breastfeeding was shown to have a threefold protective effect on the incidence of UTI in a sample of [[uncircumcised]] infants. However, breastfeeding status has not been evaluated systematically in studies assessing UTI and circumcision status." meaning that the earlier UTIs studies results were confounded. Even if their numbers were accurate, in order to prevent one UTI during the first year of life by circumcising a baby boy, approximately 195 babies who will not get a UTI would need to be circumcised. Also infant girls commonly develop UTIs(in some studies at even higher rates than infant boys) and the standard treatment for them is antibiotics which works just as well for infant boys with UTIs. The AAP concludes this section noting that "the absolute risk of developing a UTI in an [[uncircumcised]] male infant is low (at most, ~1%)". | ::'''Urinary Tract Infections:''' "breastfeeding was shown to have a threefold protective effect on the incidence of UTI in a sample of [[uncircumcised]] infants. However, breastfeeding status has not been evaluated systematically in studies assessing UTI and circumcision status." meaning that the earlier UTIs studies results were confounded. Even if their numbers were accurate, in order to prevent one UTI during the first year of life by circumcising a baby boy, approximately 195 babies who will not get a UTI would need to be circumcised. Also infant girls commonly develop UTIs(in some studies at even higher rates than infant boys) and the standard treatment for them is antibiotics which works just as well for infant boys with UTIs. The AAP concludes this section noting that "the absolute risk of developing a UTI in an [[uncircumcised]] male infant is low (at most, ~1%)". | ||
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| − | * 2002 [[W.K. Nahm]] extends the storage life of specialized cell cultures derived from "freshly harvested neonatal foreskin tissue."<br>(Note: Since the 1980s, some amputated infant foreskins have been sold without the knowledge of the parents to biomedical companies for research and even use in commercial cosmetic products such as anti-wrinkle creams.)<ref>{{REFjournal | + | * 2002 [[W. K. Nahm]] extends the storage life of specialized cell cultures derived from "freshly harvested neonatal foreskin tissue."<br>(Note: Since the 1980s, some amputated infant foreskins have been sold without the knowledge of the parents to biomedical companies for research and even use in commercial cosmetic products such as anti-wrinkle creams.)<ref>{{REFjournal |
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Latest revision as of 17:55, 2 July 2024
Many Americans are surprised to hear that circumcision (the surgical removal of the foreskin) is uncommon in the western world. Foreigners are often shocked when they first hear that the practice of circumcision even exists in the United States. Circumcision was first introduced in the United States by an anti-sexual Victorian initiative which began during the 1830’s. Numerous publications from the 1830’s to times even as late as the 1970’s had advocated for circumcision as a means to prevent masturbation, and to permanently desensitize, denude, and immobilize the penis.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Circumcision advocates quickly moved on to manufacture a number of outrageous health claims. These claims were tailored to the fears and anxieties of the day. Circumcision has been claimed to cure epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema, bed-wetting, hip-joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight, idiocy, mental retardation, insanity, strabismus, hydrocephalus, clubfoot, cancer, STD’s, UTI’s, etc.[12] Masturbation was a major focus of Victorian doctors.[13]
When gentiles in Germany criticized the Jewish practice of ritual circumcision as "barbaric", Jewish doctors in Germany invented false claims that circumcision could prevent a variety of diseases.[14] American Jewish doctors exhibited similar behavior.
Doctors were eager to claim that they could prevent and cure many of these aliments, conditions and diseases because there were no treatments available then. Even though all of these claims have been throughly discredited, circumcision has remained a solution in search of a problem ever since. Many Americans are surprised to find out that female genital cutting (FGC) shares a strikingly similar history in the United States. [4][15][16][17][18][19][20] FGC was even covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield until 1977. Nowadays, many forms of FGC are now considered forms of female genital mutilation (FGM), which are banned in all western countries.
Contents
History of circumcision in the western world
19th century
- 1836 Claude François Lallemand circumcises a patient to cure him from nocturnal seminal emissions (i.e. wet dreams).[1]
- 1845 Edward H. Dixon declares that circumcision prevents masturbation.[2]
- 1855 Jonathan Hutchinson publishes his theory that circumcision prevents syphilis.[21]
- 1865 Nathaniel Heckford claims that circumcision cures epilepsy.[22]
- 1870 Lewis A. Sayre publishes a paper 'proving' that circumcision cures epilepsy.[23]
- 1870 Lewis A. Sayre declares that circumcision prevents spinal paralysis.[24]
- 1871 M. J. Moses declares that Jews are immune to masturbation because of circumcision.[3]
- 1873 Joseph Bell announces his discovery that circumcision cures bed wetting.[25]
- 1875 Lewis A. Sayre declares that foreskin causes curvature of the spine, paralysis of the bladder, and clubfoot.[26]
- 1879 H. H. Kane 'discovers' that circumcision cures nocturnal emissions and abdominal neuralgia.[27]
- 1881 Maximillian Landesberg announces that circumcision cures eye problems that he believed were caused by masturbation.[28]
- 1886 William G. Eggleston declares that foreskin causes crossed eyes.[29]
- 1888 John Harvey Kellogg promotes circumcision as punishment for boys to discourage them from masturbating.[30]
- 1890 William D. Gentry declares that circumcision cures blindness, deafness and dumbness.[31]
- 1891 Jonathan Hutchinson declares that foreskin encourages boys to masturbate.[5]
- 1893 Mark J. Lehman demands immediate implementation of mass circumcision of all American boys.[32]
- 1894 Peter Charles Remondino says circumcising blacks will help prevent them from raping whites.[6]
- 1894 H. L. Rosenberry publishes paper 'proving' that circumcision cures urinary and rectal incontinence.[33]
- 1898 T. Scott McFarland says he has "circumcised as many girls as boys, and always with happy results."[16]
20st century
- 1900 Jonathan Hutchinson advises circumcision as way to decrease the pleasure of sex, and hence to discourage sexual immorality.[34]
- 1901 Ernest G. Mark notes that the "pleasurable sensations that are elicited from the extremely sensitive" inner lining of the foreskin may encourage a child to masturbate, which is why he recommends circumcision since it "lessens the sensitiveness of the organ".[35]
- 1902 Roswell Park publishes paper 'proving' that foreskin causes epilepsy and that circumcision cures it.[36]
- 1914 Abraham L. Wolbarst claims that circumcision prevents tuberculosis and demands the compulsory circumcision of all children in America.[37]
- 1915 Benjamin E. Dawson says that since the clitoral hood is the source of many neuroses, female circumcision is necessary.[17]
- 1918 Belle C. Eskridge concludes circumcision will relieve one of the greatest causes of masturbation in girls.[18]
- 1926 Abraham L. Wolbarst claims that circumcision prevents penile cancer.[38]
- 1930 Norton Henry Bare claims that he has cured a boy of epilepsy and bed-wetting by circumcising him.[39]
- 1934 Aaron Goldstein and Hiram S. Yellen invent and mass market the Gomco clamp which makes it easier for doctors to cut off even more skin than in traditional circumcisions.[40]
- 1935 R. W. Cockshut demands that all boys be circumcised in order to desensitize the penis and promote chastity.[7]
- 1941 Alan F. Guttmacher promotes mass circumcision as a means of blunting male sexual sensitivity. He also spreads the false claim that a baby's foreskin must be forcibly retracted and scrubbed daily.[8]
- 1942 Abraham Ravich claims that circumcision prevents prostate cancer.[41]
- 1949 Eugene H. Hand declares that circumcision prevents venereal disease and cancer of the tongue.[42]
- 1949 Douglas Gairdner points out that the previous years cases of infant circumcision deaths were not necessary given the lack of medical justification for circumcision.
(Note: This paper helped encourage the National Health Service to drop coverage for infant circumcision which led to the practical elimination of non- religious circumcision in the United Kingdom.)[43]
- 1951 Abraham Ravich invents claims that circumcision prevents cervical cancer in women.[44]
- 1953 Richard L. Miller and Donald C. Snyder unleash their plans to circumcise all male babies immediately after birth while still in the delivery room to prevent masturbation and provide "immunity to nearly all physical and mental illness."[9]
- 1954 Ernest L. Wynder claims that male circumcision prevents cervical cancer in women.[45]
- 1956 Raymond Creelman invents the Circumstraint which straps down and immobilizes the baby's arms and legs.[46]
- 1958 Christine F. McDonald says "the same reasons that apply for the circumcision of males are generally valid when considered for the female."[19]
- 1959 W. G. Rathmann finds that among the many benefits of female circumcision is that it will make the clitoris easier for the husband to find.[20]
- 1966 Masters and Johnson erroneous claim that there is no difference in sensitivity between penises with and without foreskin.
(Note: Their work helps propagate the medical dogma that circumcision has no effect on sexuality go practically unquestioned for nearly the next four decades.)[47]
- 1969 Morris Fishbein calls for circumcision to prevent nervousness and of course also masturbation.[10]
- 1971 Abraham Ravich claims that circumcision prevents cancer of the bladder and the rectum.[48]
- 1971 The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and Newborn issues a warning to the Nation that, "There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."[49]
- 1973 R. Dagher, Melvin Selzer, and Jack Lapides declare that anyone who disagrees with their agenda to impose mass circumcision on America is deluded.[50]
- 1975 The American Academy of Pediatrics Task force on Circumcision declares, "There are no medical indications for routine circumcisions and the procedure cannot be considered an essential component of health care."[51]
- 1976 Benjamin Spock, after recommending circumcision for thirty years, revises his best-selling parenting book: "I strongly recommend leaving the foreskin alone. Parents should insist on convincing reasons for circumcision — and there are no convincing reasons that I know of."[52]
- 1985 Thomas E. Wiswell claims that circumcision prevents urinary tract infections.[53]
- 1986 Aaron J. Fink claims that circumcision prevents AIDS.[54]
- 1988 Aaron J. Fink invents the falsehood that circumcision prevents neonatal group B streptococcal disease.[55]
- 1989 Under the direction of Edgar J. Schoen, the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision declares circumcision is necessary.[56]
- 1991 Edgar J. Schoen tries and fails to convince European countries to institute mass circumcision.[57]
- 1991 Aaron J. Fink declares mass circumcision is necessary to prevent sand from getting into the soldiers' foreskins.[58]
- 1996 John R. Taylor finds that the average amount of amputated foreskin was nearly half of the total penile skin.[59]
- 1997 Edgar J. Schoen tries and fails once again to convince European countries to institute mass circumcision.[60]
- 1997 Janice Lander discovers that circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic for babies.
(Note: Before this, almost all infant circumcisions were done without anesthetic due to the prevalent belief among circumcisers that babies are not capable of feeling significant pain and if they could it doesn't matter since they won't be able to remember it.)[61]
- 1998 Howard J. Stang, inventor of an upright circumcision restraint fails to mention this conflict of interest in his article promoting infant circumcision.[62]
- 1999 John R. Taylor, after studying the foreskin's specialized innervation, concludes that it is the "primary erogenous tissue necessary for normal sexual function."[63]
- 1999 The American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision, after reviewing 40 years worth of medical studies, concluded that the "potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision... are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision." This report is also the first time the AAP has acknowledged (after decades of doctors mindlessly repeating the belief that babies don't feel significant pain) that circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic and if circumcision is to be done, anesthesia should be used. Here are some highlights from the report:
- Role of Hygiene: "there is little evidence to affirm the association between circumcision status and optimum penile hygiene."
- STDs including HIV: "behavioral factors appear to be far more important than circumcision status."
- Penile Cancer: "in a developed country such as the United States, penile cancer is a rare disease and the risk of penile cancer developing in an uncircumcised man, although increased compared with a circumcised man, is low."
- Urinary Tract Infections: "breastfeeding was shown to have a threefold protective effect on the incidence of UTI in a sample of uncircumcised infants. However, breastfeeding status has not been evaluated systematically in studies assessing UTI and circumcision status." meaning that the earlier UTIs studies results were confounded. Even if their numbers were accurate, in order to prevent one UTI during the first year of life by circumcising a baby boy, approximately 195 babies who will not get a UTI would need to be circumcised. Also infant girls commonly develop UTIs(in some studies at even higher rates than infant boys) and the standard treatment for them is antibiotics which works just as well for infant boys with UTIs. The AAP concludes this section noting that "the absolute risk of developing a UTI in an uncircumcised male infant is low (at most, ~1%)".
- Ethics: Here they say while even though cutting off part of your baby's genitalia "is not essential to the child's current well-being" they are perfectly fine with parents and doctors using cultural tradition as justification.
(Note: The report does not mention whether they also think cultural tradition is an acceptable reason to anesthetize infant girls and then cut off their clitoral hoods(which are biologically analogous to foreskin)).[64]
21st century
- 2002 W. K. Nahm extends the storage life of specialized cell cultures derived from "freshly harvested neonatal foreskin tissue."
(Note: Since the 1980s, some amputated infant foreskins have been sold without the knowledge of the parents to biomedical companies for research and even use in commercial cosmetic products such as anti-wrinkle creams.)[65]
- 2003 Edgar J. Schoen steps up pressure on American Academy of Pediatrics to reverse its policy on circumcision, falsely claiming that circumcision prevents AIDS.[66]
- 2005 R. Y. Stallings finds that HIV rates are significantly lower in circumcised women.
(Note: There was no WHO call for mass female circumcision to help prevent AIDS.)[67]
- 2007 Robert C. Bailey ends his study early with the conclusion touting circumcision as a 'vaccine' that prevents HIV infection.
(Note: This and other similar studies were widely reported throughout the American media.)[68]
- 2007 Lot de Witte finds that Langerhans cells found in the foreskin are a natural barrier to HIV infection.
(Note: This and other similar studies were widely ignored throughout the American media.)[69]
- 2007 Morris L. Sorrells et al. tests the relative sensitivity of the penis and finds that the foreskin is the most sensitive part of the penis and the glans is the least.[70]
- 2012 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a medical trade association, issued a self-serving pro-circumcision policy statement.
- 2017 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) allowed its Circumcision Policy Statement to expire with being re-affirmed due to the severe and unrelenting adverse comment from many sources. The AAP now has NO official position on child circumcision.
See also
- Alleged reasons for circumcision
- Lewis Albert Sayre
- Peter Charles Remondino
- Abraham Leo Wolbarst
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
External links
Young, Hugh (2016). A Chronology of the Foreskin and Circumcision
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Timeline of Intactivism in medical literature and popular media
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Gollaher DL. From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in America. Journal of Social History. September 1994; 28(1): 5-36. Retrieved 26 October 2021.- Dunsmuir WD, Gordon EM. The history of circumcision. BJU Int. 1 January 1999; 83(Suppl 1): 1-12. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
Ephron JM (2001): In praise of German ritual: Modern medicine and the defense of ancient traditions. Work: Medicine and the German Jews. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Pp. 222-233. ISBN 0-300-08377-7. Retrieved 22 August 2020.- www.intactaus.org/information/functionsoftheforeskin/
- Darby, Robert (2010).
History of Circumcision
, www.historyofcircumcision.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020. 
Cohen, Jonathan D.: Male circumcision in the United States: The history, an analysis of the discourse, and a philosophical interpretation 
, DePaul University (Chicago). (June 2011). Retrieved 24 August 2020.- Hely, Lou.
History
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Timeline of Intactivism in medical literature and popular media
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The completely bizarre history of American circumcision
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History of Circumcision
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- ↑ a b Lallemand CF ((1):1836; (2):1839; (3):1842): [Des Pertes Seminales Involontaires]. [Involuntary Seminal Losses] (French). Vol. 1-3. London: H. Dumont. Pp. (1):463-7; (2):70-162; (3):266-7, 280-9. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
- ↑ a b Dixon EH (1845):
Ch. IX: Phimosis and Circumcision
, in: A Treatise on Diseases of the Sexual Organs. New York: William Taylor. Pp. 158-65. Retrieved 30 October 2021. - ↑ a b Moses MJ. The Value of Circumcision as a Hygienic and Therapeutic Measure. NY Med J. November 1871; 14(4): 368-74.
- ↑ a b Kellogg JH (1888):
Treatment for Self-Abuse and Its Effects
, in: Plain Facts for Old and Young (archive URL). Project Gutenberg (ed.). Burlington, Iowa: F. Segner & Co. Retrieved 31 October 2021. - ↑ a b Hutchinson J. On circumcision as preventive of masturbation. Archives of Surgery. January 1891; 2(7): 267-269.
- ↑ a b Remondino PC. Negro rapes and their social problems. National Popular Review. January 1894; 4(1): 3-6.
- ↑ a b Cockshut RW. Circumcision. British Medical Journal. 19 October 1935; 2(3902): 764.
- ↑ a b Guttmacher AF. Should the baby be circumcised?. Parents Magazine. September 1941; 16(9): 26,76-78.
- ↑ a b Miller RL, Snyder DC. Immediate circumcision of the newborn male. AJOG. January 1953; 6(1): 1-11. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ↑ a b Fishbein M (1969):
Sex hygiene
, in: Modern Home Medical Adviser. Garden City (ed.). New York: Doubleday & Co. Pp. 90+119. Retrieved 30 October 2021. - ↑ Campbell MF (1970):
The Male Genital Tract and the Female Urethra
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