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Cockshut (1935) published a letter in the ''British Medical Journal'' that urged circumcision of all male infants because the "glans of the circumcised rapidly assumes a leathery texture less sensitive than skin." The advantage, according to Cockshut, is that masturbation would be reduced.<ref name="cockshut1935">{{REFjournal
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|author-link=R. W. Cockshut
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|title=Circumcision
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|date=1935-10-19
|volume=2
|issue=3902
|pages=764
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2461310/pdf/brmedj07592-0054a.pdf
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