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The United States is unique because the American medical industry has been promoting the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision since the late 19th Century. As a result of the centuries-old promotion almost all American males were circumcised soon after birth from the 1930s through the 1980s. | The United States is unique because the American medical industry has been promoting the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision since the late 19th Century. As a result of the centuries-old promotion almost all American males were circumcised soon after birth from the 1930s through the 1980s.<ref name="laumann1996">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Laumann | |||
|first=Edward O. | |||
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|last3=Zuckerman | |||
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|title=Circumcision in the United States | |||
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|journal=JAMA | |||
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|date=1997 | |||
|volume=277 | |||
|issue=13 | |||
|pages=1052-7 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/ | |||
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}}</ref> As a result, many Americans have never seen a human foreskin and most are profoundly ignorant of its care, purposes, and functions. | |||
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