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* 1941 [[Allan F. Guttmacher]] promotes mass circumcision as a means of '''blunting male sexual sensitivity'''. He also spreads the false claim that a baby's foreskin must be forcibly retracted and scrubbed daily.<ref name="Guttmacher1941"/>
* 1942 [[Abraham Ravich]] claims that circumcision prevents '''prostate cancer'''.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Ravich |first=Abraham |init=A |author-link=Abraham Ravich |title=The relationship of circumcision to cancer of the prostate |journal=Journal of Urology |date=1942-09 |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=298-299Ravich1942}}</ref>
* 1949 [[Eugene H. Hand]] declares that circumcision '''prevents venereal disease and cancer of the tongue'''.<ref>{{REFjournal
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* 1951 [[Abraham Ravich]] invents claims that circumcision prevents '''cervical cancer in women'''.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Ravich |first=Abraham |init=A |author-link=Abraham Ravich |title=Prophylaxis of cancer of the prostate, penis, and cervix by circumcision |journal=New York State Journal of Medicine |date=1951-06 |volume=51 |issue=12 |pages=1519-1520Ravich1951}}</ref>
* 1953 [[R.L. Miller]] and [[D.C. Snyder]] unleash their plans to circumcise all male babies immediately after birth while still in the delivery room to '''prevent [[masturbation]]''' and '''provide "immunity to nearly all physical and mental illness."'''<ref name="MillerSnyder1953"/>
* 1969 [[Morris Fishbein]] calls for circumcision to '''prevent nervousness and''' of course also '''[[masturbation]]'''.<ref name="Fishbein1969"/>
* 1971 [[Abraham Ravich]] claims that circumcision prevents cancer of the bladder and the rectum.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Ravich |first=Abraham |init=A |author-link=Abraham Ravich |title=Viral carcinogenesis in venereally susceptible organs |journal=Cancer |date=1971-06 |volume=27 |issue=6 |pages=1493-1496Ravich1971}}</ref>
* 1971 The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] Committee on Fetus and Newborn issues a warning to the Nation that, "There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period."<ref>{{REFbook