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→Trauma of circumcision: Add information on trauma of circumcision.
==Trauma of circumcision==
Bollinger & Chapin (1999) document the extremely painful and traumatic nature of infant circumcision.<ref name="bollinger2019">{{REFdocument
|title=Child Genital Cutting as an Adverse Childhood Experience
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|language=English
|url=http://adversechildhoodexperiences.net/CGC_as_an_ACE.pdf
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|last=Bollinger
|first=Dan
|author-link=Dan Bollinger
|last2=Chapin
|first2=Georganne
|author2-link=Georganne Chapin
|publisher=Intact America
|location=Tarrytown, New York, USA
|format=PDF
|date=2019-08-01
|accessdate=2021-06-30
}}</ref>
There is now fairly extensive evidence of the effect of the trauma of non-therapeutic circumcision on behavior later in life.
Glover (1929) reported a case in which the memory of a traumatic circumcision was repressed.<ref name="glover1929">{{REFjournal