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}}</ref>) was a California urologist, who is believed to have been circumcised on the eighth day of life, and the father of the idea that circumcision could prevent AIDS. He came up with the idea in 1986,<ref>{{REFbook
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Fink's proposal appeared in media throughout the US and Canada. Asked about his idea by a United Press reporter, Fink replied "This is nothing I can prove."<ref name="Glick2005Prove">{{REFbook
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|title=Circumcision: A Parent's Decision for Life
=== Unintended consequence ===
In response to the controversy surrounding the Fink's resolution, and Hardebeck's attempt to counteract it, a group of circumcision opponents held a conference in a hotel across the street from the one housing the medical meeting. The conference organizer was the nation's leading opponent of infant circumcision: [[Marilyn F. Milos]]. the founder and director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC).<ref>Marilyn Milos, personal communication with [[Leonard B. Glick]], July 27, 2001</ref><ref>Hardebeck, John W. "Newborn Circumcision: Medical Necessity or Useless Mutilation?" Truth Seeker I, 3 (July-August 1989)</ref><ref name="SnyderJL1989"/> The three-day conference, labeled the First International Symposium on Circumcision, was so successful that six more symposia, resulting to date in publication of four volumes based on the proceedings, have been held since then, in locations as diverse as Lausanne, Oxford and Sidney.<ref>{{REFbook
|editoreditors=Denniston, George C., & Marilyn Fayre Milos
|title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy
|location=New York
|year=1997
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|editoreditors=Denniston, George C. / Frederick Mansfield Hodges / Marilyn Fayre Milos
|title=Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice
|location=New York
|year=1999
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|editoreditors=Denniston, George C. / Frederick Mansfield Hodges / Marilyn Fayre Milos
|title=Understanding Circumcision; A Multi-Disciplinary Aproach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem
|location=New York
|year=2001
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|editoreditors=Denniston, George C. / Frederick Mansfield Hodges / Marilyn Fayre Milos
|title=Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society
|location=New York
|last=Fink
|first=Aaron J.
|init=AJ
|author-link=Aaron J. Fink
|year=1988
|title=Circumcision: A Parent's Decision for Life