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fixed prename typo of Guttmacher
}}</ref><ref name="Guttmacher1941">{{REFjournal
|last=Guttmacher
|first=Allan Alan F.
|init=AF
|author-link=Allan Alan F. Guttmacher
|title=Should the baby be circumcised?
|journal=Parents Magazine
* 1935 [[R. W. Cockshut]] demands that all boys be circumcised in order to '''desensitize the penis and promote chastity'''.<ref name="Cockshut1935"/>
* 1941 [[Allan Alan 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>{{Ravich1942}}</ref>