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== Lack of experience with a normal body part ==
American male urologists are drawn from the general population in which the great majority of males have received a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]],<ref name="laumann1997">{{REFjournal
|last=Laumann
|first=Edward O.
|init=EO
|author-link=
|last2=Masi
|first2=Christopher M.
|init2=CM
|author2-link=
|last3=Zuckerman
|first3=Ezra W.
|init3=EW
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision in the United States
|journal=JAMA
|date=1997-04-02
|volume=277
|issue=13
|pages=1052-7
|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/414922
|pubmedID=9091693
|accessdate=2023-04-08
}}</ref> so most have no personal experience of the functions<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.intactaus.org/information/functionsoftheforeskin/
|title=Functions of the Foreskin
|last=Helard
|first=Lou
|init=L
|author-link=
|publisher=[[Intact Australia]]
|date=2014-08-01
|accessdate=2023-04-08
}}</ref> and [[Foreskin sensitivity|sensations]] from the natural [[intact]] foreskin. American female urologists don't have male body parts so they also have no personal experience at all of the functions and sensations of the natural intact [[foreskin]].
This abysmal state of ignorance cannot serve the patients well. Moreover, Muller found that [[circumcised doctors]] are biased in favor of infant [[circumcision]], and may also be biased in favor of [[Adolescent and adult circumcision|adult circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Muller
|first=
|init=AJ
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=To cut or not to cut? Personal factors influence primary care physicians’ position on elective newborn circumcision
|journal=Journal of Men's Health
|date=2010-10
|volume=7
|issue=3
|pages=227-32
|url=https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/Muller-Cut-or-not-cut-JMH-2010.pdf
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2023-04-08
}}</ref>
Relocate section.
There are many '''issues with American urologists and the practice of male circumcision'''.
== The American Urological Association ==
A search for "circumcision" on its website produces 755 hits, so male circumcision is a major business interest of the urological industry.
=== AUA position statement ===
Although obstetricians, pediatricians, and family doctors obtain most of the revenue from non-therapeutic infant circumcision, the AUA has provided a promotional position statement on infant [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.auanet.org/about-us/policy-and-position-statements/circumcision
|title=Circumcision
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
== Lack of experience with a normal body part ==
American male urologists are drawn from the general population in which the great majority of males have received a medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]],<ref name="laumann1997">{{REFjournal
|last=Laumann
|first=Edward O.
|init=EO
|author-link=
|last2=Masi
|first2=Christopher M.
|init2=CM
|author2-link=
|last3=Zuckerman
|first3=Ezra W.
|init3=EW
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision in the United States
|journal=JAMA
|date=1997-04-02
|volume=277
|issue=13
|pages=1052-7
|url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/414922
|pubmedID=9091693
|accessdate=2023-04-08
}}</ref> so most have no personal experience of the functions<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.intactaus.org/information/functionsoftheforeskin/
|title=Functions of the Foreskin
|last=Helard
|first=Lou
|init=L
|author-link=
|publisher=[[Intact Australia]]
|date=2014-08-01
|accessdate=2023-04-08
}}</ref> and [[Foreskin sensitivity|sensations]] from the natural [[intact]] foreskin. American female urologists don't have male body parts so they also have no personal experience at all of the functions and sensations of the natural intact [[foreskin]].
This abysmal state of ignorance cannot serve the patients well. Moreover, Muller found that [[circumcised doctors]] are biased in favor of infant [[circumcision]], and may also be biased in favor of [[Adolescent and adult circumcision|adult circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Muller
|first=
|init=AJ
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=To cut or not to cut? Personal factors influence primary care physicians’ position on elective newborn circumcision
|journal=Journal of Men's Health
|date=2010-10
|volume=7
|issue=3
|pages=227-32
|url=https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/Muller-Cut-or-not-cut-JMH-2010.pdf
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2023-04-08
}}</ref>
== Issues with care of adult intact males ==
The AUA does not have a published policy or position statement regarding [[adolescent and adult circumcision]].