PubMed · 2057158
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L K Gluckman. 1991-06-26. Polynesian circumcision.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2057158/
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Although many 19th-century misconceptions about the foreskin have been dispelled since it was shown that infantile phimosis was not an abnormality, the ideas that ritual or religious circumcision arose as a hygiene measure, and that circumcision makes no difference to sexual response, have persisted. The first idea should be dismissed as a myth and the second has been seriously questioned by modern research.
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