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The website of '''Kaiser Permanente{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' depicts an [[intact ]] and [[circumcised ]] penis for comparison purposes, where the [[intact ]] [[penis ]] is drawn crooked and the [[circumcised ]] [[penis ]] is drawn straight and symmetrical.<ref>{{REFweb | quote= | url=https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/healthency.do?hwid=tp12716§ionId=tp12716-sec&contextId=hw142449 | title=Circumcision | last= | first= | publisher=Healthwise, Incorporated | website=Kaiser Permanente | date= | accessdate=2011-08-30
}}</ref> On their webpage that lists possible risks, loss of sensation isn't mentioned.<ref>{{REFweb
| quote= | url=https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/healthency.do?hwid=hw142449§ionId=hw142557&contextId=hw142449 | title=Circumcision Risks | last= | first= | publisher=Healthwise, Incorporated | website=Kaiser Permanente | date= | accessdate=2011-08-30
}}</ref>
== Chief of Pediatrics ==
The late Dr. [[Edgar J. Schoen]] was Chief of Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland for 24 years.<ref>{{REFweb | quote= | url=http://www.medicirc.org/aboutus/medicirc_qualifications.html | title=About Dr. Schoen | last= | first= | publisher=eSudo Technology Solutoins, Inc. | website=Medicirc.org | date= | accessdate=2011-08-30}}</ref> Schoen's current former office is in the Julia Morgan building on Broadway that houses Kaiser Permanente's genetics department in San Fransico, only a few yards from the home office of [[Daniel T. Halperin]], assistant professor of anthropology at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPDS).<ref name="CaseForCirc">{{REFjournal
|last=Slack
|first=Gordy
|init=G
|title=The Case For Circumcision
|journal=Express Online
}}</ref>
In 1987, Schoen was appointed head of the [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Third_policy_.281989.29 Task Force on Circumcision ]] that created the third policy (1989)]] by the [[American Association Academy of Pediatrics]] after reading his joyful paean to [[circumcision]], ''Ode to the Circumcised Male'',<ref>American Journal of Diseases in Children, Vol {{REFjournal |last=Schoen |first=Edgar J. |init=EG |author-link=Edgar J. Schoen |etal=no |title='Ode to the Circumcised Male' |trans-title= |language= |journal=Am J dis Chlid |location= |date=1987-02 |volume=141: |issue=2 |article= |page =128 |pages= |url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/513293 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=3812374 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1001/archpedi. February 1987.04460020018014 |accessdate=2022-11-01}}</ref> where he pushed for [[Routine Infant Circumcision| routine infant circumcision]], but the neonatologists on Schoen's committee wouldn't go for it. According to Schoen, not performing [[circumcision ]] would be "taking us back to nineteenth-century medicine on the eve of the 21st century," and that [[circumcision ]] will prevent "dermatological problems".<ref name="CaseForCirc"/>
Schoen has had been noted sending emails to and from the [[Circlist]] email list.<ref>Schoen, E. (2006, April 22). ''My recent circ pubs'' [Online Forum Comment]. Retrieved from http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MCIRC/message/16 Archive: http://circleaks.org/images/1/1f/MCIRC_-_Msg_16.pdf</ref> Schoen is also listed as approving content for a [[Gilgal Society]] brochure.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Morris
|first=Brian J.
|init=BJ
|author-link=Brian J. Morris
|year=2007
|title=Sex and circumcision: What every woman needs to know
|url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf
|editor=[[Vernon G. Quaintance]]
|edition=
|volume=
|pages=
|location=London, England
|publisher=[[Gilgal Society]]
|isbn=
|quote=
|note=
}}</ref>
The [[AAP]] replaced Schoen's [[Bias| biased]] policy with the [https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap1999/ fourth policy statement] in 1999. Since 1 September 2017, the AAP has had no official position on [[circumcision]].
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