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Although Remondino professed Christianity, he advocated non-therapeutic Jewish [[circumcision ]] for Christians as a measure for both moral and physical health.<ref>{{REFbook
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Remondino evidently detested the [[prepuce]], a normal, healthy , functional, human body part, which he described as:
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|Text=It is not alone the tight-constricted, glans-deforming, [[onanism]]-producing, cancer-generating prepuce that is the particular variety of prepuce that is at the bottom of the ills and ailments, local or constitutional, that may affect man through its presence. The loose, pendulous prepuce, or even the prepuce in the evolutionary stage of disappearance, that only loosely covers one-half of the glans, is as dangerous as his long and constricted counterpart.
==Was Remondino circumcised?==
Remondino's distaste and dislike for the prepuce or [[foreskin]] prompts one to ask how a man could tolerate having a prepuce which he detested attached to his body? History does not tell us his circumcision status, but modern psychology may give us a clue. We now know that [[Adamant father syndrome| circumcised men who become fathers]] and [[circumcised doctors]] express a preference for circumcision as Remondino did. Moreover, circumcision is a traumatic procedure.<ref name="taddio1995">{{Taddio TaddioA etal 1995}}</ref> Traumatized persons have a compulsion to repeat the [[trauma ]] on others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{VanderKolkBA 1989}}</ref> Remondino performed numerous circumcisions.<ref>{{REFbook
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}}</ref> Something compelled Remondino to write a large 346-page book to extol the alleged virtues and benefits of male [[circumcision]].
Remondino's behavior fits the profile of that of a [[circumcised]] doctor. If Remondino was circumcised, how would it have occurred? When Remondino was born in Turin in 1846, only Jews circumcised their infant boys, which was done by a ''[[mohel]]''. There is some speculation that Remondino was descended from Sephardic Jews, so he may have had a [[Brit Milah|ritual Jewish circumcision]].
Circumcision of adults became common after [[Lewis Albert Sayre]] (1870) performed a circumcision on a child, claimed a cure for epilepy,<ref>{{REFjournal