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==Putative effects of Bill's circumcision==
===Trauma===
We now understand that the effects of the extreme [[pain ]] of circumcision is [[Pain#Traumatic_effect_of_infant_circumcision| traumatic]], so infant Bill must have suffered significant trauma.
Famed trauma expert [https://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html Bessell van der Kolk, M. D.] (1989) reported that traumatized persons tend to repeat the trauma on themselves or others, resulting in harm to others, harm to self, or being re-victimized.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal
===The search for sexual satisfaction===
Laumann, Masi & Zuckerman (1997) discussed the findings of the [https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/HMCA/studies/6647 National Health and Social Life Survey]. They reported that [[circumcised]] males in [[United States| America ]] "engage in a somewhat more elaborated set of sexual practices than do men who are not circumcised."<ref name="Laumann1997">{{REFjournal
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