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The extent of circumfetishism among doctors and others who perform infant circumcisions is unknown.<ref>{{REFweb |quotename= |url=http://www."circumstitions.com/Glossary2.html |title=Frequently Used Expressions |last= |first= |publisher=Circumstitions |website= |date= |accessdate=2011-03-08}}<"/ref>

For those who can stomach it, the comments and behaviours of proponents of circumcision would make a fruitful area of psychological study.<ref>For a mild introduction to the world of fetish circumcision and the recruitment of teenage boys for such purposes by the Gilgal Society under the guise of "medical advice," see: [http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~vernon/ICIRC/index.html International Circumcision Information Reference Centre] </ref> They fully bear out Woodmansey's comment that "Something must be done to help the parents who show such an irrational need...."<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Woodmansey |init=AC. [ |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/2/5458/419.2 |title=Circumcision]. ''British Medical Journal'' |journal=BMJ |date=1965; |volume=2: |page=419.}}</ref> It would seem wholly plausible that inflicting circumcision on a boy provides some circumcisers and onlookers with a sexual thrill. Groups such as the [[Acorn Society]], the [[Gilgal Society]], and the [[Cutting Club]] openly admit to a morbid fascination with circumcision to the point of sado-masochistic fetish. These groups advertise that doctors are among their members. There are those on the Internet who discuss the erotic stimulation they experience by watching other males being circumcised, swap fiction about it, and trade in videotapes of actual circumcisions. Furthermore, there are anecdotal accounts of doctors becoming sexually aroused when circumcising boys.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Foley |init=JM. [ |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/1966.07_Foley/ |title=The unkindest cut of all]. '' |journal=Fact'' |date=1966;-07 |volume=3( |issue=4): |pages=2-9.(July 1966).}}</ref> Circumcision certainly provides an opportunity not only to handle boys' penises without the condemnation that a sexual assault (in the sense that phrase is normally used) would attract, but also the opportunity to exercise power over another human being, to alter the penis and to control it and the boy's future sexual life.<ref>{{REFbook |last=Price |first=Christopher P. |author-link=Christopher P . Price. [ |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/ |chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues]. In '' |title=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice'' ( |editors=[[George C. Denniston|Denniston GC]], [[Frederick M. Hodges|Hodges FM and ]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|Milos MF eds.) ]] |location=New York: |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, |year=1999: |pages=425-454. }}</ref>

Mutilating the genitals of others has a deep sexual motive. This motive combined with the urge to control people when, in the nineteenth century, doctors first introduced "medicalised" circumcision in the vain attempt to prevent [[masturbation]].<ref>Moses MJ. The value of circumcision as a hygienic and therapeutic measure. ''New York Medical Journal'' 1871;14:368-74.{{Moses1871}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal