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== Female circumcision promotion == | == Female circumcision promotion == | ||
In 1959, he published an article promoting wide-scale female circumcision as a cure for psychosomatic illness and marital problems. He literally claimed beside other arguments, that "if the husband is unusually awkward or difficult to educate, one should at times make the clitoris easier to find."<ref>{{REFbook | In 1959, he published an article promoting wide-scale [[female circumcision]] as a cure for psychosomatic illness and marital problems. He literally claimed beside other arguments, that "if the husband is unusually awkward or difficult to educate, one should at times make the clitoris easier to find."<ref>{{REFbook | ||
|title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy | |title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy | ||
|page=29 | |page=29 | ||