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}}</ref> This may have contributed to his being appointed as chairman of the new [[American Academy of Pediatrics ]] (AAP) task force on circumcision. (The AAP is a [[medical trade association ]] which is noted for its [[bias]] in favor of non-therapeutic [[circumcision ]] from which its members hugely [[Financial incentive| profit]].)
In 1987, Schoen was appointed head of the Task Force on Circumcision by the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]],<ref>''American Journal of Diseases in Children'', Vol 141: 128. February 1987</ref> where he pushed for "routine" (meaning without [[medical indication]]), non-therapeutic infant circumcision, but the neonatologists on Schoen's committee wouldn't go for it. According to Schoen, not performing circumcision would be "taking us back to nineteenth-century medicine on the eve of the 21st century," and that circumcision will prevent "dermatological problems".<ref name="Slack">{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> Groups such as the [[Gilgal Society]] 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 and about it, and trade in videotapes of actual circumcisions.<ref>{{REFbook
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