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'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Profit is reaped not only from the practice of circumcision itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested [[Foreskin| foreskins]], the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils, and the treatment of [[Complication| complications]] and botched circumcisions.

'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Morgan (1967) termed it "<i>chronic remunerative surgery</i>", since physicians are paid over and over again for performing unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal

|last=Morgan

|first=

|init=WKC

|author-link=William Keith Campbell Morgan

|etal=NO

|title=Penile plunder

|trans-title=

|language=

|journal=Med J Aust

|location=

|date=1967-05-27

|volume=1

|issue=21

|article=

|page=

|pages=1102-3

|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/morgan2/

|archived=

|quote=

|pubmedID=4226264

|pubmedCID=

|DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb20892.x

|doi=

|accessdate=2024-05-22

}}</ref> Profit is reaped not only from the practice of [[circumcision]] itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested [[Foreskin| foreskins]], the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils, and the treatment of [[Complication| complications]] and botched circumcisions.

== The procedure itself ==

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-'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Profit is reaped not only from the practice of circumcision itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested [[Foreskin| foreskins]], the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils, and the treatment of [[Complication| complications]] and botched circumcisions.
+'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Morgan (1967) termed it "<i>chronic remunerative surgery</i>", since physicians are paid over and over again for performing unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal
+ |last=Morgan
+ |first=
+ |init=WKC
+ |author-link=William Keith Campbell Morgan
+ |etal=NO
+ |title=Penile plunder
+ |trans-title=
+ |language=
+ |journal=Med J Aust
+ |location=
+ |date=1967-05-27
+ |volume=1
+ |issue=21
+ |article=
+ |page=
+ |pages=1102-3
+ |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/morgan2/
+ |archived=
+ |quote=
+ |pubmedID=4226264
+ |pubmedCID=
+ |DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb20892.x
+ |doi=
+ |accessdate=2024-05-22
+}}</ref> Profit is reaped not only from the practice of [[circumcision]] itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested [[Foreskin| foreskins]], the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils, and the treatment of [[Complication| complications]] and botched circumcisions.
 == The procedure itself ==