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Circumcision: Diseases
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By the 1920s, advances in the understanding of disease had undermined much of the original medical basis for preventive circumcision. Doctors continued to promote it... as good penile hygiene and as a preventive for a handful of conditions local to the penis: balanitis, phimosis, and penile cancer.
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New myths about circumcision have arisen and continue to arise. These are as unfounded and misguided as the excuses used in the Victorian era. Even if they were not, amputation of a healthy part of the body is a poor and barbaric means of disease control. On this basis one could recommend amputation of the toes under the pretext of preventing athlete's foot for example, and pre-pubescent castration would have a very high success rate in the prevention of venereal disease.
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"I am very well aware of the controversy regarding circumcision, and I openly acknowledge that the foreskin does have function both in protection, lubrication and sensation," the urologist wrote in a letter to the judge. "In this case... the foreskin has a true medical disease, and in my opinion, this is best treated with circumcision."
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"Despite overwhelming evidence from urological surgeons that neoplasm of the penis is a lethal disease that can be prevented by removal of the foreskin, some physicians continue to argue against routine circumcision in a highly emotional and aggressive fashion." - Dr Dagher, Journal of Urology, 1973
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