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===Feelings and behavior of circumcised men=== | |||
Goldman (1999) described the long-term psychological effects of circumcision as "anger, sense of loss, shame, sense of having been victimized and violated, feal, distrust, grief, and jealousy of intact men.<ref name="goldman1999">{{REFjournal | Goldman (1999) described the long-term psychological effects of circumcision as "anger, sense of loss, shame, sense of having been victimized and violated, feal, distrust, grief, and jealousy of intact men.<ref name="goldman1999">{{REFjournal | ||
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# Verbal expression of feelings requires conscious awareness. Because early traumas are generally unconscious, associated feelings are expressed non-verbally through behavioural, emotional, and physiological forms.<ref name="goldman1999" /> | # Verbal expression of feelings requires conscious awareness. Because early traumas are generally unconscious, associated feelings are expressed non-verbally through behavioural, emotional, and physiological forms.<ref name="goldman1999" /> | ||
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It is now well established that circumcised men who become a father of a boy overwhelmingly want the boy to be circumcumcised.<ref name="brown-brown1987">{{REFjournal | |||
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|first2=Cheryl A. | |||
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|title=Circumcision decision: Prominence of social concerns | |||
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|journal=Pediatrics | |||
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|date=1987-08 | |||
|volume=80 | |||
|issue=2 | |||
|pages=215-219 | |||
|url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/80/2/215? | |||
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}}</ref> <ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal | |||
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|last2=Muller | |||
|first2=Andries J. | |||
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|title=Parents' rationale for male circumcision | |||
|journal=Can Fam Physician | |||
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|date=2013-02 | |||
|volume=59 | |||
|issue=2 | |||
|pages=e110-e115 | |||
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576965/ | |||
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}}</ref> This phenomenon has come to be known as the ''[[adamant father syndrome]]''.<ref name="hill2012">{{REFweb | |||
|url=http://www.drmomma.org/2009/07/circumcision-human-behavior.html | |||
|title=Circumcision & Human Behavior | |||
|last=Hill | |||
|first=George | |||
|author-link=George Hill | |||
|date=2012 | |||
|accessdate=2019-11-11 | |||
}}</ref> Such circumcised fathers are driven to repeat the trauma of their own circumcision decades ago on their own son even acting contrary to current medical advice.<ref name="goldman1999" /> | |||
===Circumcised medical doctors=== | |||
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