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A cluster of 18th– and especially 19th‑century physicians and medical writers promoted circumcision as a remedy to what they regarded as the medical and moral crisis of masturbation; notable names and...
Victorian moral-hygiene campaigns and a widespread “masturbation panic” helped medicalize and popularize non‑religious circumcision in late 19th‑ and early 20th‑century Britain and the United States: ...
In the late 1800s, circumcision in the Anglophone world moved from a mostly religious or occasional medical procedure toward routine medical practice in Britain and especially the United States; in th...