A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in BritainReadHowYouWant.com, 2011 M07 12 - 784 páginas In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedu... |
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Property | 40 |
4 | 136 |
The Priests of | 176 |
A Source of Serious | 222 |
A Compromising and Unpublishable Mutilation | 266 |
One of the Most Grievous Diseases of Humanity | 310 |
The Besetting Trial of | 352 |
This Unyielding Tube | 401 |
Prevention Is Better Than | 440 |
The Purity Movement and the Social | 485 |
The Stigmata of | 532 |
Front Cover Back Cover Back Cover | 739 |
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