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{{PhotoMissing}}Very little has been found about this British Victorian doctor, who practised at Hendon, N.W. London. In fact, some websites and literature refer him as '''C. W. Cockshut''' and others as '''R. W. Cockshut'''.

He is relevant due to a quote from the ''British Medical Journal'', 19 October 1935, where in a letter he calls for all male children to be [[circumcised ]] to reduce [[masturbation]]. His letter was one of several letters, starting on page 763, regarding child [[circumcision]]. In this quote he acknowledges the [http://www.intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Keratinization [keratinization ]] of the [[glans]], consequence of [[circumcision]], and further loss of sensation as ideals for a civilized culture.

|Title=Circumcision |Text=I suggest that all male children should be circumcised. This is "against nature", but that is exactly the reason why it should be done. Nature intends that the adolescent male shall copulate as often and as promiscuously as possible, and to that end covers the sensitive glans so that it shall be ever ready to receive stimuli. Civilization, on the contrary, requires chastity, and the [[glans ]] of the [[circumcised ]] rapidly assumes a leathery texture less sensitive than [[skin]]. Thus the adolescent has his attention drawn to his [[penis ]] much less often. I am convinced that [[masturbation]] is much less common in the circumcised. With these considerations in view it does not seem apt to argue that 'God knows best how to make little boys.'<ref name="cockshut1935">{{REFjournal |last=Cockshut |init=RW |author-link=R. W. Cockshut |etal=no |title=Circumcision |journal=Brit Med J |location= |date=1935-10-19 |volume=2 |issue=3902 |pages=764 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2461310/pdf/brmedj07592-0054a.pdf |archived= |quote= |accessdate=2020-08-25}}</ref>

|Source=Circumcision. British Medical Journal, Vol.2 (1935): p.764BMJ |ref=<ref name="cockshut1935"/>

* [{{REFjournal |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13146787 |title=The minor maladies of children] |last=Cockshut |init=RW |author-link=R. W. Cockshut |journal=Trans Med Soc Lond |date=1953 |volume=69 |pages=71-9; discussion, 79-84 |pubmedID=13146787 |accessdate=2020-12-29}}* [{{REFjournal |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20777873 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON WHOOPINGCOUGH AND ITS TREATMENT BY VACCINES |title=Some Observations on Whoopingcough and Its Treatment by Vaccines |last=Cockshut |init=RW |author-link=R. W. Cockshut |journal=Br Med J |date=1933-11-04 |volume=2 |issue=3800 |pages=819-20 |DOI=10.1136/bmj.2.3800.819 |pubmedID=20777873 |pubmedCID=2369554 |accessdate=2020-12-29}} {{SEEALSO}}* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]* [[United Kingdom]]