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| Author=[[Robert Darby]] | Title=A Surgical Temptation | Subtitle=The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain | Pages=368| Format=| Edition= | FirstEdition=September 5, 2013 | Publisher=University Of Chicago Press | ISBN={{ISBN|978-022610110}} | ASIN=B00F19LK4A
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In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to [[masturbation]] and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedure again came under hostile scrutiny, culminating in its disappearance during the 1960s.