Lindsay R. Watson

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Lindsay R. Watson, BScHons, DipTchg, is an independent New Zealand researcher. His book Unspeakable Mutilations is a product of his researches into the changing attitudes and treatment of male sexuality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is currently researching the New Zealand history of the social and health issues related to the non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors, from ancient Polynesia to the present. He has also researched the New Zealand purity campaigns of Henry Bligh of the Australasian White Cross League (1902-1930).

Publications

• Watson LR, Golden T. Male circumcision grief: effective and ineffective therapeutic approaches. New Male Studies: An International Journal. 2017; 6(2): 109-25. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
• Watson LR (2014): Unspeakable Mutilations. 208 pages. KDP.
• Watson LR. The Universal Condition: Medical Constructions of 'Congenital Phimosis' in Twentieth Century New Zealand and their Implications for Child Rearing. Health & History. 2014; 16(1): 87-106.
• Watson LR. Tom Tiddler's Ground: Irregular Practitioners and Male Sexual Problems in New Zealand, 1858-1908. Medical History. 2013; 57(4): 537-558. PMID. PMC. DOI.

See also

• New Zealand