"Routine Infant Circumcision was introduced during the late 1800's and throughout the 1900's on the pretext that it offered health and hygiene benefits, would stop the habit of masturbation, and proffered an endless list of presumed cures for a variety of ailments and diseases."
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James Peron, Circumcision: Then and Now, Many Blessings, Volume III, Pages 41-42, Spring 2000.
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