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One should note that these circumcision instruments were all developed more than seventy years ago and in the last century. At that time medical opinion favored infant circumcision, which was then alleged to prevent various diseases.
Medical opinion has shifted dramatically since then. [[Circumcision]] is no longer viewed as an effective preventer of disease. Instead, circumcision of male minors is now viewed as a harmful, unnecessary, unethical, violation of the patient's [[human rights]], and [[genital mutilation]], which causes a loss of functional penile tissue and irreversible loss of protective, immunological, sexual, and sensory functions. Medical science now knows that [[circumcised]] boys have three times more penile issues than [[foreskinned]] boys.<ref name=fendereski2024">{{REFjournal
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