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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, a clinician at a children's home in Houston, TX, thought that an early circumcision improves girls just as much as boys.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116085230/http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=6
|title=Girls as well as boys: Texas 1918
|website=History of Circumcision
|archived=yes
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref> So she circumcised all children in her care and found that girls responded to its effects more than boys.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Rodriguez
|first=Sarah B.
|title=Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment
|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=-PMwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Belle+Eskridge+circumcision&source=bl&ots=g8Qv4zNR3O&sig=ACfU3U1wDAWKGSrJIAVxsfpJP3chMVnaCg&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj06LyZgsLzAhUB_7sIHZpnBJgQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=Belle%20Eskridge%20circumcision&f=false
|publisher=Boydell & Brewer
|year=2014
|page=38
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>
== Female circumcision promotion ==
Eskridge concluded that [[female circumcision]] will "relieve one of the greatest causes of [[masturbation]]" in girls (see her publication).
{{PUB}}
* {{Eskridge1918}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eskridge, Belle C.}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Female]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Promoter]]
[[Category:Victorian doctor]]
[[Category:USA]]
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151116085230/http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=6
|title=Girls as well as boys: Texas 1918
|website=History of Circumcision
|archived=yes
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref> So she circumcised all children in her care and found that girls responded to its effects more than boys.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Rodriguez
|first=Sarah B.
|title=Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment
|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=-PMwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Belle+Eskridge+circumcision&source=bl&ots=g8Qv4zNR3O&sig=ACfU3U1wDAWKGSrJIAVxsfpJP3chMVnaCg&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj06LyZgsLzAhUB_7sIHZpnBJgQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=Belle%20Eskridge%20circumcision&f=false
|publisher=Boydell & Brewer
|year=2014
|page=38
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>
== Female circumcision promotion ==
Eskridge concluded that [[female circumcision]] will "relieve one of the greatest causes of [[masturbation]]" in girls (see her publication).
{{PUB}}
* {{Eskridge1918}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eskridge, Belle C.}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Female]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Promoter]]
[[Category:Victorian doctor]]
[[Category:USA]]