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fixed typo in prename of Hutchinson
}}</ref><ref name="Hutchinson1891">{{REFjournal
|last=Hutchinson
|first=JohnathanJonathan
|init=J
|author-link=Jonathan Hutchinson
|title=On circumcision as preventive of masturbation
|journal=Archives of Surgery
* 1855 [[Jonathan Hutchinson]] publishes his theory that circumcision '''prevents syphilis'''.<ref name="hutchinson1855">{{REFjournal
|last=Hutchinson
|first=JohnathonJonathan
|init=J
|author-link=Jonathan Hutchinson
|title=On the Influence of Circumcision in Preventing Syphilis
|journal=Medical Times and Gazette
}}</ref>
* 1891 [[Johnathan Jonathan Hutchinson]] declares that '''foreskin encourages boys to masturbate'''.<ref name="Hutchinson1891"/>
* 1893 [[Mark J. Lehman]] demands immediate implementation of mass circumcision of all American boys.<ref>{{REFjournal
* 1900 [[Jonathan Hutchinson]] advises circumcision as way to '''decrease the pleasure of sex''', and hence to '''discourage sexual immorality'''.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Hutchinson
|first=JohnathanJonathan
|init=J
|author-link=Jonathan Hutchinson
|title=The advantages of circumcision
|journal=The Polyclinic