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|date=2023-01-18
|volume=Preprint
|pages=1-1013
|url=https://psyarxiv.com/4yv62/
|archived=
=== Psychic circumcision trauma ===
The medical community has been slow to recognize the trauma of [[circumcision]].<ref name="batterley2023" /> <ref name="goldman1999">{{REFjournal
|last=Goldman
|first=
|DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1093.x
|accessdate=2022-11-14
}}</ref>
Although a [[circumcision]] may be performed at any age, circumcisions are most commonly performed on newborn boys in the first month of life outside of the mother's womb. At that tender age general anesthesia is too dangerous to administer, so newborn boys receive only minimal [[pain]] relief at best and, in many cases, none at all.